Overview
Jordana Schreiber counsels high net worth individuals and families in the areas of estate, gift and succession planning, will and trust preparation, charitable giving, and estate and trust administration. She has extensive experience preparing estate planning documents including wills, revocable trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, and qualified personal residence trusts. Her practice includes developing estate and gift tax minimization strategies, generation-skipping transfer tax planning, insurance planning and philanthropic planning. She assists clients with probate and trust administration and other general matters relating to daily administration of estate plans.
Jordana also facilitates the creation and operation of non-profit organizations, including handling related tax matters.
Jordana was a Lecturer-in-Law, from 2011 to 2013, on trust and estate drafting at Boston University School of Law. From 2011 to 2012, she was an adjunct professor in legal research and writing at New England School of Law.
Education and Credentials
Education
- Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, J.D., cum laude, Order of the Coif, 2006, Cardozo Law Review, Notes Editor
- University of Pennsylvania, B.A., summa cum laude, 2002
Admissions
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- State of New York
Affiliations
- Boston Bar Association, Tax Exempt Organization Section, Steering Committee, Special Speaker Chair; Trusts and Estates Section - Tax Law Updates Committee
- Trusts and Estates Consortium
- Boston Estate Planning Council
- New York State Bar Association
- The Boston Foundation, Professional Advisors Committee
Recognition and Community
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Recognitions
Chosen for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White, Inc.), Trusts and Estates, 2024-2025
Chosen for inclusion in list of Top Lawyers for Trusts and Estates by Boston Magazine (Metro Corp.), 2021-2022
Internship with Chief Judge Donald C. Pogue, United States Court of International Trade, Summer 2004
Order of the Coif
Dean's Distinguished Scholar, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 2003-2006
Kathleen Hall Jamieson Award for highest GPA, University of Pennsylvania, 2002
Community Involvement
Striar Hebrew Academy of Sharon, Board of Directors
In The Media
Speaking Engagements
- Basics of Estate Planning, March 11, 2021
- 21 Tax Law Updates, July 21, 2017
- Presenter, "Tax Law Updates," Trusts and Estates Year in Review, Boston Bar Association, Boston, MA, June 10, 2014, June 10, 2014
Media Mention
- Boston Magazine's Top Lawyers of 2024, Boston magazine, November 19, 2024
- Boston Magazine's Top Lawyers of 2023, Boston Magazine, November 21, 2023
- Boston Magazine's Top Lawyers of 2022, Boston magazine , November 29, 2022
- Why December 31 is Closer Than You Think, Philanthropic Advisor, The Boston Foundation Newsletter, September 15, 2022
- Day Pitney's 2022 Newly Promoted Partners Featured in BBA's Law Firm Newsletter, Boston Bar Association Law Firm Newsletter, January 13, 2022
- Boston Magazine's Top Lawyers of 2021, Boston Magazine, November 23, 2021