- Mary E. Vandenack
A founding member of the firm, Mary offers extraordinary energy and focus in the inter-related areas of tax, business, real estate, health care and estate and business succession planning. Mary excels in dealing with the issues of closely held businesses (whether an international operation or a one person shop). In the health care arena, Mary regularly represents physicians, physician organizations, health care facilities, group health plans, ambulatory surgery centers, billing companies, pharmaceutical companies, and specialty health care providers. Mary also specializes in estate and succession planning and has significant experience in a variety of trusts including conduit trusts for retirement plans, asset protection trusts, special needs trusts, life insurance trusts and various other estate and succession planning strategies. Mary’s work with closely held businesses and their owners has also provided numerous opportunities to provide service in the non-profit area.
- Business Law
- Real Estate
- Taxation
- Health Care Law
- Wealth Succession and Estate Planning
- Employee Benefits
- Nonprofit
- Education:
- Creighton University School of Law, Omaha, Nebraska, 1992
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Law Review: Creighton Law Review, Editor-in-Chief - College of St. Mary, Omaha, Nebraska, 1990
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
- Professional Associations and Memberships:
- American Bar Association
- Nebraska Bar Association
- Michigan Bar Association
- Omaha Bar Association
- American Health Lawyers Association
- Rotary International, Suburban Chapter
- Armbrust YMCA
- Board of Directors
- American Council on Exercise
- Fraternities/Sororities:
- Phi Delta Phi
- Alpha Sigma Nu
Mary’s skill and knowledge related to the issues of closely held businesses and their owners has provided her a niche in assisting such clients with a wide variety of issues including transactions, employee benefits, expansions into or transactions in national or international markets, mergers and acquisitions, and state, federal, local and international tax and business issues. Mary is often asked to serve in the role of general counsel to her clients and easily transitions from focusing on complex business issues to helping her clients address the impact of their business on their individual planning needs.
Mary graduated magna cum laude from Creighton University School of Law in 1992, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Creighton Law Review, won a Domestic Moot Court competition as Best Oral Advocate, and was inducted into the Alpha Sigma Nu Honor Society. Mary received her Bachelors Degree in Business and Accounting, summa cum laude, from College of Saint Mary.
Mary regularly speaks and writes in her practice areas. Mary is active in the national bar association promoting the use of technology in the practice of law and in improving the cost effectiveness and efficiency of legal services. In addition, Mary is a member of various task forces promoting changes in legislation and regulations governing tax, business and health care.
In her spare time, Mary shares her love for health and wellness by teaching aerobics, weight training, pilates, and yoga to adults, seniors and children.
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