Julia Mccarthy Brown

Julia Mccarthy Brown focuses her practice on elder law, estate planning, and special needs planning. She practices from the Law Office of Julia M. Brown LLC based in Waterbury, Connecticut. She provides services in fields like planning for long-term care, planning to stay home, paying for care, long-term care insurance, advice on Medicaid and asset protection.

She handles cases related to estate planning including Power of Attorney, Advance Medical Directives, Last Will, Revocable & Irrevocable Trusts, Special Needs Planning & Retirement Planning. She helps patients with selection of nursing home, payment options, and quality of care. She also counsels clients in probate matters and gives tax advice.

She has obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work. She later served at various health care institutions and held different kinds of posts. She earned the experience of working at psychiatric hospitals, nursing homes, medical hospitals, and residential treatment centers for adolescents having substance abuse issues and mental disorders.

Julia M. Brown later went on to obtain her Juris Doctorate in law from the Pace University in 1986. She obtained the license to practice law in the states of Connecticut and New York in 1986 and 1987 respectively. She served as an investigative attorney at the Department of Investigation in the City of New York from 1986 to 1989.

She later relocated to Connecticut and started her private practice. She worked at the Connecticut Legal Services as an Elder Law Attorney from 1991 to 1994. She founded the Law Office of Julia M. Brown in 1994. She represents clients throughout the Connecticut state for over twenty-five years.

She has served on the Board of Directors of the Alzheimer’s Association from 1994 to 1998. She is a member of various professional associations like the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, National Elder Law Foundation, the Elder Law Committee of the Waterbury Bar Association, etc.

Attorney Brown serves on the Executive Committee of the Elder Law Section of the Connecticut Bar Association. She has received accreditation as an attorney preparing, presenting and prosecuting claims for veterans before the Department of Veterans Affairs.