Who We Are

Michele specializes in supporting and advising business owners and families, like you, on business, tax, and estate planning solutions. uch solutions include choice of business entity, designing business entity structures, implementing tax minimization strategies, and educating you on the importance of creating and maintaining an estate plan that works if you or your family member should become incapacitated or when you pass on.

Michele has held positions in various “Big Four” accounting firms as a tax consultant, including a “Big Four” accounting firm in the U.S. Virgin Islands. She has provided legal tax advice while working in a boutique tax law firm and has focused on tax treaty issues while working in a premier tax law publishing company. Michele also interned with the United States Congress Joint Committee on Taxation.

An attorney must be more than just a lawyer. An attorney must be a trusted advisor, a courageous entrepreneur, a gifted marketer, an innovative and people-oriented manager, a computer whiz, and a dedicated student of the ever-changing laws and technological environment. 

Michele Hyndman, Esq.

Currently, Michele acts as General Counsel to She Has A Deal, LLC (“SHaD”) and sits on the executive board of directors of the SHaD Project, LLC (“SHaD Project”). SHaD’s signature program is an annual hotel investment pitch competition and conference that creates new pathways to hotel ownership and development for women. SHaD Project is a non-for-profit that specializes in educating women on hotel investing, acquisition, and development.

Michele obtained her LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC, her Juris Doctor from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in Cleveland, Ohio, and her Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics-Economics with a concentration in Spanish from Columbia University in the City of New York. Michele is currently a member of, and maintains her law practice license with, the New York State Bar, the U.S. Virgin Islands Bar, and the U.S. Tax Court; and she is currently awaiting admission to the Florida State Bar.

Michele is single and enjoys playing golf, kayaking, and socializing with family and friends.

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Business planning, tax planning, and estate planning are disciplines with enormous breadth that touches every business owner and family whether the business, estate or family is large or small.

Business Planning

The best way to take care of one’s business is:

• to be proactive
• to plan
• to strategize
• to implement revenue generating and tax minimization strategies
• to seek wise counsel

Estate Planning

The best way to take care of one’s family during life and after death is to put a proper estate plan in place.

• Proper planning puts decision making in the hands of the client and takes control away from the courts.
• Proactive planning allows business owners and families that are fully capable of managing their own affairs to make meaningful decisions for their lives.
• Protective planning frees up valuable and scarce judicial resources that should be reserved for people who simply cannot afford to plan.

The Hyndman Group is a scalable law business that is sought after because of its uniqueness in the industry, closeness with its clientele, and deep community respect and admiration.

Michele Hyndman, Esq.