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Anne White, (Lawyer)

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  janwhite@pasternakfidis.com
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J.D.

LL.B.

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L.E.P.

LCSW

LPC

LMFT

Psychiatrist

CFP®

CPA

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Professional Activities


Current Prior

Collaborative Practice Training


Year Course Title Instructor Hours Action
Basic/ Introductory Collaborative Law or Interdisciplinary Collaborative Team Training.
30-Hr Interest-Based Negotiation & Mediation Skills
Advanced interest-based negotiation, communication skills, collaborative,professional coach training
Annual 4 hours collaborative continuing education (basic, intermediate, or advanced)

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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 consistently named to Best Lawyers and Super Lawyers in Family Law and Collaborative Law. Jan graduated from 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. Jan's diverse background prepared her to resolve complex divorce issues involving taxes, retirement benefits, trusts, businesses, and related financial issues in collaborative cases. 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 (now Hogan Lovells), and practiced international trade law. Jan completed her collaborative law training alongside renowned professionals in the field, such as Stu Webb, Pauline Tesler, Peggy Thompson, Suzanne Brunsting, Susan Gamache, and George Richardson. Jan is a leader and educator in Collaborative Law. She serves as Chair of the D.C. Metro Protocols Committee, which drafted the contracts and reference book for the practice of Collaborative law in the area, and Co-Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Maryland Collaborative Practice Council, which educates other professionals on how to handle difficult issues. 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 Collaborative Practice Training Institute, Jan 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. As a founding member of Collaborative Practice Training Institute (CPTI), Jan has for years taught a three-day Training for Maryland Lawyers and Judiciary for the Maryland Administrative Office of the Courts. She is also a frequent lecturer on Divorce tax, pensions, financial issues in divorce, and high income child support.

Collaborative Practice Group Membership


Collaborative Professionals of Northern Virginia

Collaborative Services


Jan says that the Collaborative Process appeals to clients who want privacy about their finances and personal matters and who want to control the pacing and time demands of resolving their dispute. Among divorcing clients, the Collaborative Process particularly appeals to spouses who want an amicable divorce; spouses who want to integrate financial planning into their divorce; spouses who want to be better informed about their finances; spouses who want to maintain a respectful relationship with each other and the other’s extended family; couples who have had a lengthy marriage; and clients who want specialized tax, business, trust and other expert advice as part of their divorce. In a divorce or family law situation, there are two groups that are particularly well-served by the process: 1) high net worth individuals and business owners who seek a private resolution and a process they can control; and 2) parents who seek a process that protects their children. The first group, who have important financial interests at stake, can protect their financial information from disclosure to others outside the process. At the same time, if one party is less financially sophisticated, the neutral financial expert hired by the parties can help educate that person about the family finances. The parties can also control the timing of the process by deciding when they will meet and how fast they will proceed. When they reach resolution in the process, their finances will be protected from public access. The second group, parents of minor children, are able to set protecting their children as their goal for the Collaborative Process. Instead of the attorneys’ negotiating a custody schedule, mental health experts trained as coaches meet with the parties to develop a schedule and decision-making plan that protects the children. Participants interviewed after the Collaborative Process reported the greatest benefits to be their improved ability to co-parent and the protection of their children during the divorce process.

Education


Licenses


Maryland, Virginia and District of Columbia Licensed ,J.D.

Professional Activities


CURRENT:
founding member of Collaborative Practice Training Institute.
Best Lawyers (Family Law and Collaborative Law)
Super Lawyers (Family Law)
Chair, D.C. Metro Protocols Committee
Co-Chair, Ethics Committee, Maryland Collaborative Practice Council

PRIOR:
American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Fellow
Faculty for Maryland Bar Association Divorce Tax program
Faculty for Divorce Tax, Pension, High Income Child Support, and Trusts programs for attorneys and mediators
Developed, chaired and taught D.C. Bar Program 'Family Law around the Beltway: Law and Strategy in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia
past Co-Chair, Collaborative Professionals of Northern Virginia
Past President for D.C. Academy of Collaborative Professionals
Past Board Member and Co-Chair of Protocols for Collaborative Dispute Resolution Professionals (Maryland)

Collaborative Practice Training


Year Course Title Instructor Hours
Basic/ Introductory Collaborative Law or Interdisciplinary Collaborative Team Training.
2005 Basic Collaborative Law Training George Richardson 16
30-Hr Interest-Based Negotiation & Mediation Skills
2006 Mediation Training Carl Schneider 40
Additional 15 hours Intermediate/ Advanced interest-based negotiation, communication skills, collaborative, or basic professional coach training
2008 Using the IACP Collaborative Practice Basic Training Curriculum Susan Gamache and Amy Wolff 6
2008 Intermediate Collaborative Training Pauline Tesler 3
2006 Intermediate Collaborative Law Training Stuart Webb 8
Annual 4 hours collaborative continuing education (basic, intermediate, or advanced)
2022 “Collaborative Clients: When kumbaya is not enough.” CPNV: Barbara Burr, Esq. 1.5
2022 Divorcing your spouse, but staying married to Uncle Sam CPNV: Sarah Avila, CFP®, CDFA® 1.5
2021 VIRGINIA’S UNIFORM COLLABORATIVE LAW ACT: WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOUR COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE CPNV: Jennifer A. Bradley, JD; Anne (Jan) W. White, JD; Karen L. Keyes, JD 1.5
2021 Transform Them CPNV: Jonathan Foust, MA, CSA 1.5
2021 Should Virginia Create a Legal Presumption of Shared Custody: A Current Effort is Underway, and There is Research to Support It CPNV: Adele D’Ari, Ph.D., Lisa Herrick, Ph.D., Jennifer Bradley, J.D. 1.5
2021 NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE DCACP: Barbara Burr, Esq.; Natalie Goldberg, LCSW 1.5
2021 HOLD ONTO YOUR HATS: STRATEGIES FOR STREAMLINING COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE CPNV: Jennifer Bradley, Esq., Lynn Fetcher, Esq., Natalie Goldberg, LCSW, Jane Ochsman Rowny, CPA, CDFA 1.5
2021 BEYOND SPREAD SHEETS AND CASH FLOW – A DEEP DIVE INTO THE FINANCIAL NEUTRAL ROLES AS FACILITATOR, MEDIATOR AND ADVISOR CPNV: Debbie May CPA, CFP, CDFA and Robin Taub, J.D. 1.5
2021 ADULT ADHD IN COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE: A POWERFUL, UNDER-RECOGNIZED X FACTOR CPNV: Kate Scharff, PhD 1.5
2020 Yikes-My Client is Recently Sober: Integrating substance abuse recover into a parenting plan CPNV: Natalie Goldberg & George Young 1.5
2020 The Psychological and Ethical Dimensions of Collaborative Practice David A. Hoffman, Collaborative Attorney & Mediator 6
2020 The New Normal CPNV: Steve Goldman & Patrice Garver 1.5
2020 Impacts During COVID-19 CPNV: Lisa Herrick, Natalie Goldberg, Sue Soler, Jennifer Bradley & Grant Moher 1.5
2020 Dialectical Behavioral Therapy: Adapting Techniques for Collaborative Practice CPNV: Britt Rathbone, LCSW-C 3
2019 What's IACP Got To Do With It? Chris Farish, JD .5
2019 Ethics in Collaborative Law I was presenter (Univ. of Maryland Law School) 3
2019 Collaborative Boot Camp: An Experiential Day of Refining Skills and Deepening Team Cohesion (12th 11-11-19) Barbara Burr, JD & Lisa Herrick, PhD 5.5
2018 Working Creatively with Conflict Debbie Beach, Patrice Garver, and Debbie Nackman 1
2018 Tools to Understand your Divorcing Client's Money Personality Erika W. Schleifman, CFP, CDFA 1
2018 Collaborative TEAM protocols: How the TEAM establishes an environment of thinking and reasoning Christine Hissong and Mary Szpanka 1
2017 Creating the Conditions for Growth As We Help Our Clients Navigate Separation and Divorce Lisa Herrick and Kate Scharff 6
2016 What You Don't Know about Privilege I was the instructor. 4
2015 Mediation Intensive Training Gary Friedman 40
2014 Interdisciplinary Collaborative Practice Training I was the instructor. 22
2013 Ethical Issues in Collaborative Cases I was the instructor. 4
2012 Updated Collaborative Protocols for DC Metro and VA I was the instructor. 2
2012 Interdisciplinary Collaborative Training I was the instructor. 22
2012 Ethical Issues in Collaborative Cases I was the instructor. 4
2011 Interdisciplinary Collaborative Training I was the instructor. 22
2010 Protocols for Collaborative Cases: DC Metro area I was the instructor. 3
2010 Interdisciplinary Collaborative Practice I was the instructor. 22
2009 Interdisciplinary Collaborative Practice Training Susan Gamache 22
2009 Ethical Considerations on the Practice of Collaborative Law Suzanne Brunsting 4
2008 Conflict Resolution and Mediation Skills Training for Collaborative Professionals Judy Rubin 5
2007 Basic Interdisciplinary Training George Richardson 20
2006 Basic Collaborative Law Training Suzanne Brunsting 16
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