Our Team

Babette B. Bach, Esq. is an Elder Law Advocate and the founder of Bach Elder Law. Board certified by both the Florida Bar and the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (CELA), she is chair of the Elder Law Section of the Florida Bar and has been practicing law for over 25 years.

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Fred has been an "av" rated attorney since 1976, holds a Masters degree in tax law and is Florida Board Certified in tax law. In addition to practicing law, he teaches estate planning, Federal taxation of estates, trusts and gifts, tax procedure and international taxation as an adjunct law professor at Stetson Law School, St. Petersburg, Florida.

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Florida Registered Paralegal, graduated from Penn State University and taught elementary school while doing graduate work at West Chester State University. After moving to Geneva, Switzerland where she lived for four years, Jayne studied French and traveled extensively through Europe and the Middle East.

Now in Sarasota, she has been assisting Babette Bach since she first opened the Bach Elder Law practice in 2003. Jayne’s experience caring for my 96-year-old mother-in-law has given her great personal insight into many clients' concerns.

Jayne has been happily living in Sarasota for the last 15 years with her husband and three cats. She enjoys sewing, machine embroidery and reading. With such broad background and interests, Jayne establishes a comfortable rapport with the diverse clients of Bach Elder Law.

Alice is both a Certified and a Florida Registered Paralegal.  She has over 25 years legal experience in the private and corporate setting, and has worked at AT&T and the American Automobile Association – Mid-Atlantic Insurance Companies.  She earned a B.A. at Rutgers University, and graduated from New York University’s Paralegal Institute.  She served as a volunteer Ombudsman with the Florida Department of Elder Affairs prior to finding a perfect match at Bach Elder Law in 2005.  She currently serves at VP of SW Florida Paralegal Association.

In addition to her paralegal work, Alice was a licensed agent in NY with MetLife, an editorial assistant at Rutgers University, and an independent contractor of food services at a private tennis and swim club. Alice also enjoys exercising, reading, culinary arts, entertaining, and has travelled through Western Europe, the Mediterranean and South Pacific. She is happily married, has three daughters and wonderful grandchildren.

Lesli Madaika has worked in the legal field for a number of years, with most of her experience in Probate and Estate Planning, with additional experience in Real Estate, Business and Contract law, and some Litigation. “Of all of the different areas of law, I particularly enjoy working in the field of Elder Law because it provides an opportunity to get to know our clients as we help them,” shares Lesli.

A native Floridian, born in Miami, she has lived in various places around this state, as well as southern California, and southern New Mexico. In Chicago, she attended the University of Illinois in Chicago and Northwestern University in Evanston, studying psychology and sociology, history, and business administration. Since she enjoys going to school so much, she has happily taken a variety of classes at the community colleges in the different places she has lived. Lesli has two adult daughters and three grandchildren, plus several dogs and cats. Her hobbies include reading, nature photography, stamp collecting, chess, needlework, and traveling as frequently as possible.

Yuliya Swaim

Yuliya is working as a legal intern at Bach Elder Law for this year before she returns to Stetson University College of Law to earn her American law degree. Yuliya is licensed to practice law in Ukraine. However, the rules of the Florida bar require her to get an American JD degree before she can practice law in the state of Florida.

Yuliya has already earned her Ukrainian J.D. degree summa cum laude, from Kyiv Institute of International Relations of National Taras Schevchenko University, where she was a Moot Court and Law Review member and graduated in the top 5% of her class. Yuliya also holds a Master’s degree in private international law summa cum laude and a Master’s degree in Interpreting and Translation (French language) summa cum laude from Kyiv Institute of International Relations of National Taras Schevchenko University. At Stetson, Yuliya earned an LL.M degree in International law with distinction.

She has written law review articles for the Kiev Law Review on various aspects of international dispute resolution, on maritime delimitations in international law and the regulation of investments in Ukrainian real estate. While working as a legal advisor for a private security agency in Ukraine, Yuliya provided legal assistance for companies facing unwanted takeovers. In 2008 Yuliya entered the Stetson LL.M program in International law, and worked as a research assistant for law professor Kristen Adams on the subject of International Commercial Transactions. Recently she conducted research on the issue of cross-border insolvency in international law for her upcoming book. Prior to joining Bach Elder Law, Yuliya also worked as a legal intern for Richard Maney, in Maney|Gordon immigration law office.

Yuliya speaks Russian, Ukrainian, English, French and German languages. Her hobbies include opera, theatre, fine arts, Arabic dance.
“My legal experience in Bach Elder Law gives me a broad insight into the American legal system. I appreciate this unique opportunity to deal with elderly clients whom I consider to be pearls of wisdom and repositories of knowledge.”.

Sherri Fritz’s Biography

Sherri has worked as a Legal Assistant since 2004 in the field of Estate Planning, Probate, and Real Estate.  She has an additional background in Advertising, Management of Fulfillment Operations.  Sherri was born in Stoughton, Massachusetts and she was raised in Brockton, Massachusetts. She moved to New Hampshire where she graduated from Profile Jr./Sr. High School and graduated from Granite State College with an Associates Degree in Business.  After college, Sherri and her husband, a Venice Florida native, moved to Florida for the warm weather and tropical scenery.  Sherri loves spending quality time with her family, especially her husband and her son.  Sherri also enjoys being around her good friends, enjoying outdoor fun and sports and she really appreciates a good movie.