Stacey Edwards

Stacey M. Edwards practices estate and elder law in Watchung, New Jersey, where she founded Edwards Estate & Elder Law and serves as managing member. Some clients come to her to plan for incapacity or death; others need representation after either has occurred. She also works with people and caregivers confronting financial and care problems caused by illness, injury or disability. Her clients include older adults subjected to financial manipulation or abuse.

Edwards graduated from High Point University in 1990 with a bachelor’s degree in political science. A master’s degree in justice from The American University followed in 1995, then a Juris Doctor from Seton Hall School of Law in 1998. She was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1999 and the New York bar in 2025.

Away from client matters, Edwards speaks about estate planning through the New Jersey State Bar Foundation’s Speakers Bureau. Those talks reach high school students nearing eighteen as well as older audiences, including senior citizens. Lawyers and colleagues are another audience: she has been a course panelist for HalfMoon Education and the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education. Her podcast appearances include “Thoughtful Planning,” “The Decluttering Club” and “In the Know with Joe,” discussing estate and elder law. On social media, she uses a doll called “Lawyer in the Foyer,” posed with props, as part of her estate-planning education campaign.