Rita M. Bank
Rita M. Bank is a principal and co-founder of the firm. She has practiced family law for over 25 years. She is highly experienced in settling and litigating cases involving complex business assets and related issues; and in creating integrated solutions for wealth accumulation and preservation. Ms. Bank serves as general counsel to high net-worth clients.
Listed in Woodward White’s The Best Lawyers in America, she is consistently peer-rated in Washingtonian magazine among the top divorce lawyers in the region for "her mastery of the intricacies of equitable distribution of property law…" "…Few divorce lawyers have as much
balance and perspective as Rita Bank.…" In commenting on her style, a professional colleague said, "I have often marveled at your low key professional approach. In a specialty in which emotions run high, your calmness is the perfect antidote and has obviously been effective." She has been praised as one of the creators of and a volunteer mentor at the District of Columbia Bar’s Law Firm Pro Bono Clinic.
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Education
- Columbus School of Law, Catholic University, J.D., 1978
- Hunter College, City University of New York, B.A., 1967.
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Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Maryland
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Professional Affiliations
- American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Fellow
- American Bar Foundation, Fellow
- American College of Trial Lawyers, Fellow
- Board of Governors of the District of Columbia Bar, Member
- Women’s Legal Defense Fund (now Partnership for Women and Families), Past President
- Former General Counsel, District of Columbia Bar
- Board of Visitors of the Columbus School of Law, Catholic University, Member
- National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Instructor
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