Practice limited to
sophisticated estate planning,
trust and estate law
and related matters.
BiographiesPam H. Schneider |
|
|
Pam is a founding partner of Gadsden Schneider & Woodward LLP, a Pennsylvania law firm concentrating in estate planning, trust and estate administration and litigation, charitable gift planning and related areas of tax and personal and fiduciary law. She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973 and her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1976. Until February 1, 2001 she was a partner in the Personal and Fiduciary Law department of Philadelphia-based Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, which she joined as an associate in 1978 after practicing with the law firm of White & Case in New York City. Her practice focuses on sophisticated estate planning and related tax planning for wealthy individuals, as well as charitable gift planning for individuals and institutions, the creation of private foundations and the representation of family offices. Pam is a past Chair of the Section on Real Property, Probate and Trust Law of the American Bar Association. She is also a past member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a member of the Advisory Committee to the State Commission on Decedents' Estates Laws in Pennsylvania and an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law, where she co-teaches a course in the Federal Generation-Skipping Transfer tax in their Masters Program in Taxation. In addition, she serves as an Advisor to two of the American Law Institute's projects on the Restatement of the Law and was elected an academician of The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law. Pam has lectured extensively throughout the United States on generation-skipping |
pschneider@gsw-llp.com transfers, estate freezes, and other estate planning topics, including at the University of Miami” Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, where she also serves on the Institute's Advisory Board. She has been recognized as one of the nation’s top estate planning lawyers by inclusion in various listings in popular publications including a listing of the 45 best Trusts and Estate lawyers in America in the August 1998 issue of Town & Country magazine. She was also named the “1998 Distinguished Estate Planner” by the Philadelphia Estate Planning Council. |
