Attorney Profiles

Anne (Jan) W. White

Anne (Jan) W. White

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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 was named to the 2009 editions of Best Lawyers and Super Lawyers. She attended 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. Ms. White's diverse background prepared her to resolve complex divorce issues involving taxes, retirement benefits, trusts, businesses, and related financial issues. 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, and practiced international trade law.

Ms. White is a leader and educator in the collaborative law approach to divorce. She trains other attorneys in the collaborative law discipline and serves as Chair of the D.C. Metro Protocols Committee and the Collaborative Professionals of Northern Virginia.

Ms. White finds that the collaborative law process benefits clients who are seeking to divorce in a way that maximizes their privacy, provides them with greater control over timing and outcome, emphasizes financial planning, and promotes family harmony and good parenting. She has great confidence in collaborative law's ability to overcome the emotional obstacles to negotiation and resolution in divorce cases. To maximize the personal nature and efficacy of the collaborative process, Ms. White routinely involves mental health, financial, and other trusted professionals in creating custom-tailored teams for each case. Her commitment to improving the experience of divorcing clients has led her to found the D.C. Metro Protocols Committee, devoted to improving the quality of collaborative divorce, and to train other professionals as a founding member of the Collaborative Practice Training Institute.

Formerly a performing dancer, Ms. White continues to practice her craft today. As a North Carolina native, she follows Duke and Carolina basketball and enjoys time at the beach. As regularly as she can, she participates in Spanish-language immersion programs in Mexico and Guatemala.


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