“Best Lawyers in America” Includes Joanna Reiver

Gawthrop Greenwood, PC attorney Joanna Reiver has been selected by her peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America^© 2016 in the practice area of Trusts and Estates. She has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America continuously since 1987.

Reiver heads the firm’s Delaware office, focusing her practice on estate planning, planning for family members with disabilities, planning for non-traditional families, closely held business interests in estate planning, use of trusts in estate planning, charitable trusts and generation-skipping trusts, as well as probate and administration of estates.

Inclusion in Best Lawyers^® is based entirely on peer-review. Best Lawyers employs a sophisticated, conscientious, rational, and transparent survey process designed to elicit meaningful and substantive evaluations of the quality of legal services.

An Accredited Estate Planner (certified by the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils), Reiver is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and served as Delaware State Chair from 2007–2012. She has served as Chair of the Delaware State Bar Association Section on Estates and Trusts, President of the National Association of Estate Planners and Councils, and President of the Estate Planning Council of Delaware, Inc. She taught the Delaware wills and trust section of the Delaware-Widener bar review course for 20 years, and served as an Adjunct Professor of estate administration at Widener Law Center’s paralegal program.

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For the 2016 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America, 6.7 million votes were analyzed, resulting in more than 55,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”