About Cynthia
Cynthia Hannah-White built an uncommon academic foundation for an attorney. She earned a Bachelor of Science in 1984 from Michigan State University, majoring in biochemistry and physiology. That scientific education preceded a law degree from Cornell Law School in 1992, the place she concentrated in corporate law and taxation.
Her law school training at Cornell married technical rigor and transactional study. The coursework in corporate law and tax matters supplied tools for advising on corporate systems and tax penalties. The in advance science diploma gave her an information-orientated approach to hassle fixing and a capacity to read technical material closely.
After law program she established a tradition done beneath the authorities of 2 state bars. She is certified to practice in New York and Hawaii. Over the years she has labored on things that intersect enterprise, tax, and making plans. Her club in WealthCounsel and ElderCounsel locations her in national circles that tackle property planning and elder law issues. She also maintains club in the Hawaii State Bar Association.
Colleagues describe her as planned in analysis. She examines statutory language, tax rules, and client documents with thoroughness. The aggregate of tax training and business law study has been beneficial in structuring transactions, making ready property plans, and advising trustees and fiduciaries. Her background in the sciences seems in the way she organizes complex information and explains it plainly to clients.
Cynthia has balanced practice duties throughout two distinct legal environments. New York’s commercial and monetary panorama brings diverse pressures than the island context of Hawaii. Practicing in both jurisdictions calls for maintaining up with separate procedural guidelines and expert obligations. Membership in nationwide practice groups helps bridge nearby practice differences and offers resources for drafting and client schooling.
She has stored professional affiliations recent and uses the ones networks to consult on technical problems. That approach allows her to attract on peer-reviewed drafting models and continuing education geared toward elder law and property planning practitioners. Her client work displays the intersection of corporate law, taxation, and planning worries.
Today she stays active in legal associations and continues to practice law in New York and Hawaii, handling matters that draw on her corporate law, tax education, and estate-planning assets.
