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Shirley B. Whitenack
Shirley B. Whitenack is a partner with Schenck, Price, Smith & King’s Litigation Department and Tax, Trusts and Estates Department. Ms. Whitenack devotes a substantial portion of her practice to trust and estate litigation and elder and disability law, particularly surrogate arrangements to protect the elderly and people with disabilities, special needs planning and Medicaid appeals. She also is a co-chair of the firm’s Fiduciary Litigation Practice Group and chair of the firm’s Elder and Disability Law Practice Group.
A trustee of the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education (NJICLE) and the Guardianship Association of New Jersey, Inc. (GANJI), and a Director of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA), Ms. Whitenack is a past chair of the Elder and Disability Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA) and a frequent author and lecturer on elder and disability law for NJICLE and other professional and charitable organizations. She is a contributing author to New Jersey Elder Law Practice, 3rd Edition published by NJICLE, West Group’s New Jersey Practice Elder Law: Guardianship & Conservatorship; Volume 45, Trusts for Senior Citizens (ALI-ABA), and Elder Law Trusts and Estates: Leading Lawyers on Strategies for Working with Clients and their Families in Estate Planning, as well as the author of “Strategies for Establishing a Trust,” both chapters published by Aspatore. She also co-authored an article for Estate Planning magazine, Volume 36, entitled “The Revival of the Income-Only Trust in Medicaid Planning.” Ms. Whitenack has served on the faculty of the Superior Court of New Jersey’s Judicial College.
Ms. Whitenack is a member of the Special Needs Alliance, an invitation-only attorney nonprofit organization, and a member of NAELA’s Council of Advanced Practitioners, an invitation-only nationwide group of elder and special needs attorneys. She also is a member of NAELA’s Guardianship/Capacity Section Steering Committee, past chairperson of NAELA’s Advocacy/ Litigation and NAELA’s Membership Committee, a member of the New Jersey chapter of NAELA, the American Bar Association and its Litigation Section and Probate Committee, the Program Development Committee of the New Jersey State Bar Foundation, and the Morris County Bar Association and its Probate and Chancery Committees. Ms. Whitenack received the NJSBA’s Legislative Service Award in September 2003 for her contribution in drafting and promoting revisions to New Jersey’s guardianship statutes and the NJSBA’s Amicus Curiae Award in 2004. Ms. Whitenack also received GANJI’s Recognition Award in October 2003 for her contribution in advocating for the civil rights of incapacitated individuals. She received NJICLE’s Distinguished Service Award and was named a Fellow of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys in 2007. Selection as a Fellow is the highest honor bestowed by the Academy. Ms. Whitenack has been recognized by NJBIZ as a top elder law attorney, by New Jersey Monthly magazine as one of New Jersey’s top 50 female attorneys as well as an Elder Law “Super Lawyer,” and is recognized by Martindale-Hubbell as a peer review AV rated attorney, the highest such rating available to any individual lawyer. Ms. Whitenack is the 2008 recipient of the Distinguished Service Award conferred by the Elder & Disability Law Section of the NJSBA and was NAELA’s featured member in its NAELA News Magazine, Volume 21, Issue 5, 2009.
Ms. Whitenack is admitted to practice in New Jersey, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She participates as a court-appointed and private mediator in probate and commercial litigation matters and as a court-appointed arbitrator in commercial disputes.
Ms. Whitenack received her undergraduate degree cum laude from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1972, and attended Seton Hall University School of Law, where she held the position of Notes and Comments Editor of the Seton Hall Law Review. After receiving her law degree cum laude in 1985, she served as Law Secretary to the Honorable Melvin P. Antell, Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division. Prior to joining Schenck, Price, Smith & King, LLP in 1999, Ms. Whitenack was a director with the Roseland firm of Hannoch Weisman.
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Ms. Whitenack may be reached at sbw@spsk.com
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