Jessica M. Klersy is the founder and managing partner at Klersy Law, P.C. Jessica faced severe discrimination and pushback from educational institutions to provide her with reasonable accommodations to which she was entitled after losing her hearing at the age of seventeen. Fortunately for Jessica, she was an amazing advocate for herself, and she received ensured that she received the help she required. However, Jessica had numerous family members who had significant disabilities and were unable to advocate for themselves when they were discriminated against and mistreated by others. As a result of watching their suffering and feeling helpless to stop the discrimination and mistreatment of her family members, Jessica decided to enter law school to become an advocate for individuals with special needs and provide these individuals with the voice they needed to protect their interests.
One of Jessica’s many accomplishments during law school was her participation in the Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center’s Elder Law Clinic. In the clinic, Jessica assisted elderly individuals who did not have family and needed help with various aspects of their lives or who were mistreated by family members. It was in the guardianship documents that Jessica helped to draft and were ultimately submitted to the Court by a law professor that she advocated for their rights and ensured they received the proper care and protection of their hard-earned assets.
Jessica merged the knowledge she learned from her time at the Elder Law Clinic with her passion to advocate for individuals with special needs and the elderly and now continues to work with the Courts on guardianship matters. Further, Jessica extended her knowledge to assisting families with individuals with special needs to protect the assets their family members want to leave him or her with her extensive knowledge of third-party supplemental needs trusts which protects the individual with disabilities and the assets that their family members have left them.
Jessica understands that there are devastating implications if someone passes without having a trust, will, or worse becomes incapacitated without having the appropriate advanced directives in place. The results are disastrous on the families and result in the families expending excessive amounts of money to remedy the individual’s failure to procure the aforementioned documents. Jessica’s practice focuses on the protection of assets with properly drafted estate planning documents which prepares her clients for the unexpected. Further, Jessica understands the sensitive nature of elder law and special needs planning and utilizes a gentle approach in the explanation and implementation of each client’s individualized plan to fit his/her specific needs. Jessica has an innate ability to explain the laws in plain language to ensure that clients understand them. Jessica gives the clients at the Klersy Law, P.C. personal attention and she displays a great passion and sense of caring for them. Jessica is committed to providing quality legal services to each client and ensures each client’s needs are met.
Jessica received her Juris Doctorate degree from Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in May 2017, and was admitted to the New York State Bar in June 2017 after passing the bar exam during her final semester of law school. Jessica also received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology with a minor in Therapeutic Recreation from St. Joseph’s College in 2014.
Jessica is a member of the New York State Bar Association as well as an alumni member of the Phi Alpha Delta Fraternity-Touro Chapter. Jessica is also a Certified Court Appointed Court Evaluator, Guardian and Attorney for the AIP in Article 81 matters in Suffolk, Nassau, and Queens Counties. Jessica’s accomplishments include being a recipient of an academic achievement scholarship given to her by Touro Law Center, being the only recipient of the New York State Bar Association’s Honorable Joel K. Asarch Elder Law and Special Needs Section scholarship and being one of only four students in the 2017 Pro Bono Scholar Program at Touro Law Center, which allowed her to take and pass the Bar exam prior to graduating law school.