Sarah M. Allen
Sarah Allen became a shareholder and director of Rice, Heard & Bigelow, Inc. in 2014. Prior to joining the firm, she was a partner in the Boston law firm of Pabian & Russell, LLC. At Pabian & Russell, Sarah served as co-manager of the firm’s estate planning and administration department. Her legal practice was concentrated in the areas of estate planning, trust and estate administration and probate litigation. Sarah graduated with a Bachelor of Science summa cum laude from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2000, earned a J.D. from Boston University School of Law in 2004 and received a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation from Boston University School of Law in 2014. In 2020, Sarah was awarded the Accredited Estate Planning (AEP) designation.
In 2025, Sarah received the Excellence Award from the Boston Estate Planning Council. In 2014, Sarah was named Up & Coming Lawyer by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and the Massachusetts Bar Association. Sarah was also named to the Massachusetts Super Lawyers list appearing in New England Super Lawyers Magazine and Boston Magazine from 2014 through 2026. In 2009, 2011 and 2012, Sarah was named to the Massachusetts Rising Stars list in the same magazines. She regularly serves as a lecturer for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, the Boston Bar Association and the Boston Estate Planning Council on various estate planning and trust administration topics.
Sarah is a past president of the Boston Estate Planning Council (BEPC). She is a past chair of the Professional Advisors Council (PAC) for the Boston Foundation and is the former co-chair of the Boston Foundation’s Professional Advisors Network (PAN). Sarah is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Boston Bar Association, the Fiduciary Inn of Court and the Trusts & Estates Consortium.
Contact Sarah: sma [at] riceheard.com