Erin McBee
Erin McBee received her Bachelors of Arts in Anthropology and in Government from the University of Texas at Austin (UT). During college and after graduation, Erin worked in the Dean of Students office at UT in the Services for Students with Disabilities Division. In that position she helped to make UT more accessible to students with various abilities by (among other tasks) coordinating recording of textbooks, arranging for test proctors, repairing wheelchairs, and converting documents into Braille.
Erin earned her Juris Doctor from New England School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts, graduating cum laude. New England School of Law awarded Erin a full tuition scholarship for all three years of her attendance. She received the New England School of Law Service Award, the New England Scholar Award, and the CALI Award for Remedies.
During law school, she was active in the Public Interest Law Association (as Auction Co-chair and as President), and served as Executive Literary Editor on the New England Journal for Criminal & Civil Confinement. Additionally, she wrote a memo for the Prosecutor in the International War Crimes Tribunal for Rwanda.
Erin is licensed to practice in both Texas and Massachusetts. After working as Legal Director at Volunteer Legal Services in Austin, Texas, Erin returned to Massachusetts.
The Law Office of Erin McBee was opened in 2006 in North Andover, Massachusetts and has been located in Harvard since 2009. Since 2006, Erin has expanded her skill set to include Elder and Disability Law (long term care planning and Medicaid planning).
Erin is constantly expanding her knowledge base through attending continuing legal educations seminars and keeping up with recent developments in her fields of practice by taking continuing legal education courses, attending seminars and reading trade journals like Trusts & Estates, the NAELA journal, the Texas Bar Journal and multiple listservs. Erin regularly attends the Heckerling Estate Planning Conference, the Massachusetts Elder Law Institute and the Massachusetts Probate Law Conference.
She is also a member of the National Association of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA), Massachusetts chapter, the Boston Estate Planning Council, the Massachusetts Bar Association, and Worcester County Bar Association.
Community Involvement
Harvard Select Board Member, 2021 to present
Harvard Planning Board, August 2013 to 2020
Harvard 4th of July Committee, 2012 & 2013
Emerson Hospital Corporator, 2015 to present
Emerson Hospital Pediatric Advisory Committee, Community Member, 2016 to present
Massachusetts Bar Association Moot Court Volunteer Judge, 2017 to 2019
Harvard Farmers Market Volunteer
Professional Memberships
Boston Estate Planning Council, 2016 to present
National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (National & Massachusetts Chapter Member)
National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Massachusetts Chapter - Vice President 2023; Board of Directors 2021 to present & Publications & Website Committee Member, 2019 to present
MCLE (Mass. Continuing Legal Ed.) Sponsor Member
Worcester County Bar Association
Massachusetts Bar Association