Overview

Becca Kniffen works in the private client group, assisting clients with estate and tax planning, as well as estate administration, in New York and New Jersey. In addition, Becca counsels clients through tough end-of-life decisions and planning for disposition of remains. Her niche interests include cemetery law, and she has experience in succession planning for family graves and cemetery plots.

Personal Interests

In her free time, Becca enjoys studying foreign languages, gardening in warm weather, snowboarding in snowy weather, and reading mystery novels / listening to true-crime podcasts. Her interests in cemetery law and mystery novels stem from the fact that her family has a plot in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, made famous by Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Credentials

Bar Admissions

New York

Education

Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University
J.D. (2021)

University of Maryland-College Park
B.A. in Chinese Language (2016)

Insights & Events

Other Perspectives
  • The Pandemic: Law Students’ Perspectives on COVID-19’s Effects on Legal Education and the Legal Profession
    Co-author, Westchester Bar Journal, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 143-152 (2020)

Honors

  • New York State Bar Association
  • Westchester County Bar Association
  • Westchester Women’s Bar Association