JONATHAN D. EISNER

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Partner

Venable LLP

Jon Eisner focuses on estate planning, trust administration and tax matters. He specializes in intergenerational family planning and previously chaired a global law firm’s trusts and estates practice group.

Eisner earned a Juris Doctor with honors from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in 1993, where he served as an associate editor of the Maryland Law Review. During his academic career, he received the Judge Morton P. Fisher Memorial Prize for excellence in estate and gift taxation and the Edward H. Curlander Prize for estate planning.

What’s the most important thing you do in your job?

I carefully listen to clients to ascertain goals so that I can help clients achieve those goals. Listening is an underrated skill set, but I find that it greatly helps me work closely with families to accomplish their planning objectives.

What is one aspect of your profession you would like to change?

Paralegals are critical in our practice area. We are fortunate to have an incredible group of experienced and very smart paralegals in our group. I wish that the legal profession did a better job of helping educational institutions create paralegal programs that specifically trained bright, young people to become estate and trust paralegals.

If you weren’t in this industry, what would you be doing?

I think I would have ended up in the wealth management industry, helping families grow their assets.

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