Top Women Lawyers in the Northeast - Jacki Leifer, Mary Pence, Kay Schwartz, and Marna Tucker

Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP is proud to announce that four FTLF partners have been recognized by Martindale-Hubbell as Top Women Lawyers in the Northeast:  Jacki Leifer, Mary Pence, Kay Schwartz, and Marna Tucker.  

Jacki Leifer (Health Law) counsels several national associations, state affiliates, health care organizations, and managed care entities and networks that have been formed by health care providers and their strategic partners.  She handles a variety of corporate issues, including development of articles of incorporation, bylaws, applications for tax exempt status, personnel and financial policies; negotiation and enforcement of contracts with employees, vendors, insurers and federal government agencies; corporate restructuring, consolidations and affiliations; corporate compliance programs; and risk management.

Mary Pence (Family Law) helps clients navigate the difficult transitions of separation and divorce in a future-oriented fashion and specializes in the Collaborative process.  She is involved in Collaborative work at the local, regional and national levels and is consistently recognized as one of the Washington, D.C. area's top matrimonial attorneys.

Kay Schwartz (Trusts & Estates) focuses her practice in the area of estate planning and administration and in related areas of federal and state tax law; including estate and gift tax, generation-skipping transfer tax, and fiduciary income tax.  Her practice in these areas includes estate planning for multiple generations of families; drafting complex wills and trusts; planning for corporate retirement benefits; resolving tax controversies involving federal and state transfer tax issues; administering large and complex estates and trusts comprising assets in multiple domestic and foreign jurisdictions; and litigating estate and trust administration issues.

Marna S. Tucker (Family Law) has practiced law in the domestic relations field for almost forty years, and is a nationwide expert in complex divorces, domestic violence and prenuptial matters.  She has been recognized several times as one of the "Top Divorce Lawyers" by the Washingtonian Magazine as well as one of the "Top Lawyers" in Washington, D.C.

Martindale-Hubbell used peer review ratings to identify women lawyers with the highest rating possible.  The complete list can be found here: http://www.arrive-digital.com/arrive/20110708?pg=95#pg95.