Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Spear's Magazine recognized partners Marilyn B. Chinitz and Lois J. Liberman in the 2025 edition of the Spear's Family Lawyers Indices, part of the Spear’s 500 guide. This marks the third consecutive year that Marilyn and Lois have been recognized with this honor.
The Spear’s 500 is a guide to the top private client advisers and service providers for high- and ultra-high-net-worth individuals. The family law installment features the "best family lawyers for high-net-worth clients in 2025."
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Marilyn's and Lois' Spear's 500 profiles are copied below.
Marilyn B. Chinitz
Recommended 2025, Family Lawyers
Spear’s Review
Marilyn Chinitz of Blank Rome in New York is one of the US’s most respected divorce lawyers, having confirmed her high profile with celebrity clients such as Tom Cruise, Michael Douglas and a string of prominent business leaders and billionaires.
Her career in family law began when a partner at the corporate law firm she was working at asked her to work on his own divorce privately. ‘It really opened my eyes; this is the area of law that I love. It involved valuation of assets, it involved trusts and estate issues, it involved tax issues. It was a very interesting area of the law that I felt I connected with, because I like people, I’m able to work well with people, they trust me, so I decided to leave the corporate litigation world.’
Her clients have felt the benefit ever since.
Adviser Profile
Marilyn Chinitz is a formidable advocate for her clients, guiding them through the most challenging transitions in their lives. She concentrates her practice in high-net-worth matrimonial law, with distinct expertise representing executives in the hedge fund, private equity and venture capital industries. Ms. Chinitz has more than 40 years of experience in every facet of family law, including complex transactional matters; high-conflict and international custody cases; premarital agreements and postnuptial agreements; same-sex divorce/dissolution matters; and paternity cases. She is a fierce litigator and skilled negotiator whose high-profile and celebrity cases have received national and international attention.
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Lois J. Liberman
Recommended 2025, Family Lawyers
Spear’s Review
‘Our clients are very often dealing with one of the worst situations they could in their lives, and so their anxiety or their emotions are running high on a good day,’ says Blank Rome partner Lois J. Liberman, who is adept and sensitive in helping couples with the emotional fallout of divorce.
Previously co-chair of the firm’s matrimonial and family law practice group, Liberman regularly conducts webinars helping clients to understand how to deal with a variety of issues, such as co-parenting, narcissism and coercive control.
Her practice also produces a large number of prenuptial agreements. She says it’s estimated that 50 per cent of relationships in the US will end in some sort of divorce or break-up, but ‘people still have not been turned off by the process ... So we’re still having a lot of pre-nuptial agreements.’
Adviser Profile
Lois J. Liberman is a seasoned litigator and trial attorney. She counsels high-profile and high-net-worth clients on prenuptial agreements; postnuptial agreements; custody litigation; equitable distribution involving myriad assets with highly complex financial evaluations and discovery; paternity agreements; and same-sex prenuptial and divorce agreements. Known for being an artful negotiator and an empathetic yet no-nonsense counselor, clients turn to Lois to navigate the sensitive and increasingly complex issues and dynamics facing couples and modern families. Among her pioneering accomplishments, Lois represented a litigant in the first reported same-sex divorce case in 2008 (New York State, C.C. vs. M.C.).
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