Rose A. Cavanagh

Rose A. Cavanagh is an associate whose primary practice includes estate planning, estate settlements, probate, business law, and corporate matters. She advises individuals, families, and business clients on planning, administration, and transactional issues. Her prior professional experience includes corporate legal work and leadership in the nonprofit sector, giving her perspective on both private client planning and organizational decision-making.

Cavanagh earned a B.A. in History, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and received the Pforzheimer House Public Service Award. She later earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from Cornell Law School and an M.B.A. from Cornell’s Johnson School. At Cornell, she focused on business law, regulation, and investment banking and served as an editor of the Cornell Law Review.

Cavanagh previously worked in a corporate group at Ropes & Gray and in private estate planning practice. She has also served as an executive director in the nonprofit sector. Her current work includes designing estate plans, assisting with estate settlements and probate administration, and advising on business and corporate issues that can intersect with ownership, succession, fiduciary duties, and family wealth planning.

Rose A. Cavanagh combines private-client planning with business and organizational experience. Cavanagh is admitted in Rhode Island and Massachusetts and brings both legal and business graduate training to estate and corporate matters. Her practice helps clients organize assets and decision-making structures, carry out responsibilities after a death, and address business issues where governance, succession, ownership, and long-term planning are closely connected.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Bazar & Associates
• Member, Massachusetts Bar Association
• Member, Rhode Island Bar Association

Licensed State

• Massachusetts
• Rhode Island

Education

• Cornell Law School
  Juris Doctor (JD) Magna Cum Laude
• Cornell’s Johnson School of Management
  Master of Business Administration (MBA)
• Harvard University
  Bachelor of Arts (BA) Magna Cum Laude

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