Anne (Jan) W. White

Anne (Jan) W. White, with over 30 years of legal experience in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Virginia, is a Fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and was named to the 2013 Best Lawyers in America in Family Law and in Collaborative Law and to 2013 Super Lawyers. She attended Stanford Law School and is a magna cum laude graduate of Duke University, where she was also an Angier B. Duke scholar and Phi Beta Kappa member. Ms. White’s diverse background prepared her to resolve complex divorce issues involving taxes, retirement benefits, trusts, businesses, and related financial issues. Earlier in her career, she studied finance at Stanford Business School, trained in tax, business and litigation at the Washington, D.C. firm of Hogan & Hartson, and practiced international trade law. Ms. White was named one of the area’s top divorce attorneys in December 2013 by Washingtonian Magazine and Bethesda Magazine. Ms. White is a leader and educator in the collaborative law approach to divorce. She serves as Chair of the D.C. Metro Protocols Committee and Co-Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Maryland Council of Collaborative Professionals. She is past President of the D.C. Academy of Collaborative Professionals and past Co-Chair of the Collaborative Professionals of Northern Virginia. As a founding member of the Collaborative Practice Training Institute, Ms. White trains other collaborative law professionals. She was honored with the first Member of the Year Award by the Collaborative Dispute Resolution Professionals (Maryland) for her work on the development of the D.C. Metro Area Protocols for Collaborative Divorce. Ms. White finds that the collaborative law process benefits clients who are seeking to divorce in a way that maximizes their privacy, provides them with greater control over timing and outcome, emphasizes financial planning, and promotes family harmony and good parenting. She assures that clients are provided all the resources

Stanford University

J.D. (1972) | Law

1972

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

M.A. | Political Science

1969

Duke University

B.A. (1967) | Political Science

1967

Honors: Magna Cum Laude, Angier B. Duke Scholar

Activities: Phi Beta Kappa

Attorney

Pasternak & Fidis, P.C.

1989 - Current

Attorney

U.S. Department Of Commerce, Office Of The Chief Counsel For Import Administration

1977 - 1989

Attorney

Hogan & Hartson LLP

1973 - 1977

“Maryland’s Highest Court Recognizes Out-of-State Same-Sex Marriages”

Pasternak & Fidis Reporter

2012

“Collaboration: A Family-Friendly, Client-Friendly, and Pocketbook-Friendly Way to Divorce”

Pasternak & Fidis Reporter

July, 2010

“The Uniform Collaborative Law Act”

Pasternak & Fidis Reporter

2009

“Spotlight on Jan White”

Pasternak & Fidis Reporter

June, 2007

“A New Way to Divorce—Collaboratively”

Pasternak & Fidis Reporter

March, 2007

Best Divorce and Family Lawyers

Maryland Super Lawyers

2014

One of the Area's Top Divorce Attorneys

Washingtonian

2013

One of the Area's Top 25 Divorce Lawyers

Bethesda Magazine

2013

Member of the Year

Collaborative Dispute Resolution Professionals (Maryland)

2010

Fellow

American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers

North Carolina State Bar

Member

Current

International Association of Collaborative Professionals

Current

D.C. Academy of Collaborative Professionals

Past President

Current

D.C. Metro Protocols Committee for Collaborative Divorce

Chair

Current

Maryland Collaborative Professionals Council, Inc., Ethics Committee

Co-Chair

Current

District of Columbia

District of Columbia Bar

Since 1973

Maryland

Since 1989

North Carolina

Since 1991

Virginia

Since 1989

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  Hourly ($400-$475/hour)