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Credentials...

LENA S. BARNETT received her A.B. degree, cum laude, with Honors in History, from Muhlenberg College and earned her J.D. degree from the University of Maryland School of Law. Before opening her private practice more than fifteen years ago, Ms. Barnett was an Associate with the New York based international law firm Fink, Weinberger, Fredman, Berman, Lowell & Fensterheim.

Ms. Barnett is an Adjunct Professor of the Academy of Multidisciplinary Practice, Inc. and Senior Faculty of the Estate and Wealth Strategies Institute at Michigan State University. These institutions are the first-ever collaborative effort by business, academia, and government delivering comprehensive solutions to estate and wealth transfer planning professionals and sound financial counsel to their clients.

Ms. Barnett is a Fellow of the Esperti Peterson Institute for Global Wealth Strategies Planning. The Institute is a laboratory of selected Fellows who research and create new professional planning models, protocols, and strategies. The Esperti Peterson Institute successfully combines scholarship, study, research, formal instruction, publishing, and an internationally known speaker's bureau to develop and disseminate a full range of interrelated, innovative strategies that allow successful individuals and families preserve and enhance their wealth.

The training, resources, and relationships afforded by the Professorship, Senior Faculty status, and Fellowship, enable Lena Barnett to provide cutting-edge, responsible, and effective estate and wealth strategies planning services to her clients across the country.

Presenter and Author: A popular and highly regarded speaker, Lena Barnett has conducted seminars for numerous organizations including AARP, American Cancer Society, Andrews Federal Credit Union, Aspen Publishers, Inc., Chesapeake State Fraternal Congress, Charles Schwab, D.E.A, The Germantown Rotary, Gillette, Institute of Management Accountants, JCC of Greater Washington, Lutheran Brotherhood, Merrill Lynch, NASA HQ, National Resource Development Council, Nordstrom, Prince George's Community College, Sandy Spring National Bank of MD, Suburban Hospital, The Retired Officer's Association, & The Washington Poodle Club.

Ms. Barnett is an Adjunct Professor of the Academy of Multidisciplinary Practice, Inc and Senior Faculty of the Estate and Wealth Strategies Institute at Michigan State University. She is the presenter and author of the course Planning for Minor Children and Grandchildren.

She has conducted continuing professional education seminars for a number of professional organizations including Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, and Watkins, Meegan, Drury & Company, L.L.C.

She has been a lecturer & author of continuing legal education seminars for the Montgomery-Prince George's County, Maryland Continuing Legal Education Institute, Montgomery County Maryland Bar Foundation, & the National Network of Estate Planning Attorneys.

Reviewer, The American Bar Association Guide to Wills and Estates, Second Edition, 2004, Random House Reference; Reviewer, The American Bar Association, Family Legal Guide, Third Edition, 2004, Random House Reference, Contributing Reviewer, The American Bar Association Guide To Wills and Estates, 1995, 1999, Times Books/Random House; Reviewer, The American Bar Association Legal Guide to Small Business, 2000,Three Rivers Press; Reviewer, Your Law, an American Bar Association newsletter; Contributing Reviewer, Conspectus Current, Esperti Peterson Publications, LLC; Reviewer

She was listed as a "well-recommended" tax and estate planning attorney by her peers in a survey of financial experts conducted by and published in Washingtonian magazine in 1994.

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