Pam Schneider

Pam is Of Counsel to Gadsden Schneider & Woodward LLP. She is one of the three founding partners of the firm and continued to serve as a partner in the firm until December 31, 2013. Prior to founding the firm, she was a partner in the Personal and Fiduciary Law department of Philadelphia-based Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, which she joined as an associate in 1978 after practicing with the law firm of White & Case in New York City. Pam received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973 and her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1976. Her practice is focused on sophisticated estate planning and related tax planning for individuals, including the representation of family offices. Pam is a past chair of the Section on Real Property, Probate and Trust Law of the American Bar Association, a past member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (“ACTEC”), a former trustee of the ACTEC Foundation and a former member of the Pennsylvania Joint State Commission Advisory Committee on Decedents' Estates Laws. She was an adjunct professor in the Masters Program in Taxation at New York University School of Law, where she co-taught courses in Advanced Estate Planning and the Federal Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax. In addition, she served as an advisor to two of the American Law Institute's projects on the Restatement of the Law and currently serves as a member of the Joint Editorial Board for Uniform Trust and Estate Acts. Pam has lectured extensively throughout the United States on generation-skipping transfers and other estate planning topics.