Towne, Ryan & Partners has announced an affiliation with Rowlands & LeBrou, who will act as special estate-planning counsel to the former firm.

“By partnering with Rowlands & LeBrou, we are able to expand on the sophisticated estate-planning services required by our high-net-worth clients,” said James T. Towne, Jr., one of the founding partners of Towne, Ryan & Partners. “In turn, we are able to offer a full range of legal services outside estate planning to the clients of Rowlands & LeBrou.”

As part of the affiliation, the attorneys of Rowlands & LeBrou will use Towne, Ryan & Partners’ six offices, including taking space in the firm’s newly expanded Albany branch.

Established in 2009, Towne, Ryan & Partners is a full-service law firm with offices located along I-87 from Poughkeepsie to Saratoga Springs and east to Bennington, Vt. The firm’s practice areas cover transactional and litigation work across a broad range of legal fields including municipal law; representation of automobile and truck dealers; family and matrimonial law; real estate law; vehicle and traffic law; corporate and commercial law; insurance defense; employer defense; and equine, racing and gaming law.

Rowlands & LeBrou was established in 2011. The firm’s practice areas cover estate planning, asset protection, estate and trust administration, and elder law matters.

For additional information, contact Towne at 452-1800 or Richard Rowlands at 250-4264.

--Jennie