Areas of Practice include:

Estates, Trusts & Personal Planning
Tax & Pension
Wealth Management

Ami S. Longstreet has been an attorney at Mackenzie Hughes since 1998 and is a partner in the firm. She is charged with helping businesses and members of the Syracuse community understand estate and trust planning and administration as well as elder law, including asset protection and Medicaid planning, and planning for individuals with disabilities.

She received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Vermont in 1979 and worked in Vermont as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) for two years. After that, she attended Syracuse University College of Law and graduated cum laude in 1984. While a student, she was a member of the Justinian Honorary Law Society and the Syracuse University Law Journal of International Law. In 1985, Ami was admitted to the New York Bar, the U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York, and in 1986, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Ami's professional affiliations include the Onondaga County Bar Association, the Central New York Women's Bar Association, the New York State (Elder Law Section, Secretary; and Trusts and Estates Section) and American (Real Property, Probate and Trusts; and Tax Sections) Bar Associations. She is also a volunteer speaker for the New York State, Onondaga County and Central New York Women's Bar Associations, as well as the American Lung Association and ARC of Onondaga County among other nonprofit organizations. She is a member of the Estate Planning Council of Central New York, a current member of the Governance Council of the Women's Fund of Central New York, a former board member of the Girl Scout Council of Central New York, and from 1996 to 1999, she served as an adjunct professor of "Elder Law" at Syracuse University College of Law.

Ami also spent a substantial amount of time in 2000 and 2001 co-authoring eight quarterly articles titled, "Tax News," for the Elder Law Attorney, the official newsletter of the Elder Law Section of the NYSBA. She has also written outlines for many of the speaking engagements listed above.

Prior to joining Mackenzie Hughes, Ami worked as an attorney at another large law firm in Syracuse, subsequent to practicing as an attorney in Albany for five years. She was also self-employed as a practicing attorney for four years. In all of these positions, her area of expertise was elder law and estate and trust planning and administration.

Outside these responsibilities, Ami enjoys spending time with her three children and volunteering at their schools.