A solo attorney practice focused on the matters that most often shape a life or a business — property, planning, and protection. Straightforward advice, fair fees, and steady work.
Wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and healthcare directives. Plain-language planning built around your family, not a template.
Residential and small commercial transactions. Purchase, sale, title review, and closings across the Finger Lakes counties.
LLC and corporate formation, operating agreements, and the practical filings a new business actually needs to open its doors.
Guiding executors and trustees through the process, step by step, when a loved one has passed.
Petra Kennedy founded Finger Lake Legal to bring careful, unhurried legal work to the towns and families of upstate New York.
Before opening the firm, she spent several years working alongside estate and real estate practitioners across the region, drafting the documents that quietly do the heavy lifting in most people's lives — the wills, the deeds, the trust instruments, the closing packages. She believes good legal work is slow work, done by a lawyer who returns your emails.
Outside of the practice she reads more than she should, hikes the gorges when the weather cooperates, and keeps a small vegetable garden that produces mostly tomatoes.
Reach me by email; response within one business day.
Consultations by appointment. Remote by default; in-person available.