Heather Samuels

Heather Boyer Samuels is an elder law attorney with Cohen Samuels PLLC in Boca Raton, Florida, and a Florida Bar Board Certified Specialist in Elder Law. Her practice includes Medicaid and veterans benefit asset protection planning, estate planning, special needs planning, probate, and trust administration. Earlier in her career, she worked in Delray Beach: a spring 2018 professional association newsletter identified her as the senior associate attorney at Solkoff Legal, P.A.

Samuels earned her law degree, cum laude, from Nova Southeastern University’s Shepard Broad Law Center. She also holds a master’s degree from Florida Atlantic University and a bachelor’s degree from its Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College. Her law school activities included the Moot Court Society. The Florida Bar lists her as a member in good standing and eligible to practice law in Florida.

Her professional service includes past leadership of the South Palm Beach County Florida Association for Women Lawyers as president and participation in Class VIII of the Florida Bar’s Leadership Academy. Her firm biography also identifies her as Continuing Legal Education Chair of the Florida Bar’s Elder Law Section. In 2020, that section named her Member of the Year for her work as co-editor of the Elder Law Advocate; she received its Section Service Award in 2025. Her listed presentations include a January 2024 Florida Bar Elder Law Section program on conflicts of interest and fees in estate planning.