Pam H. Schneider is a partner in the Pennsylvania law firm of Gadsden Schneider & Woodward LLP, a boutique firm concentrating in estate planning, trust and estates administration and litigation and related areas of tax and personal and fiduciary law. She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973 and her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1976. Ms. Schneider is a past Chair of the Section on Real Property, Probate and Trust Law of the American Bar Association and a past member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. She is a member of the Advisory Committee to the State Commission on Decedents' Estates Laws in Pennsylvania and an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law, where she teaches a course in their Masters (of Law) Program in Taxation. In addition, she serves as an Advisor to two of the American Law Institute's projects on the Restatement of the Law and was elected an academician of The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law.

Ms. Schneider has lectured extensively throughout the United States on various estate planning topics, including at the University of Miami Estate Planning Institute (where she also serves on the Institute's Advisory Board) and the University of Southern California Tax Institute. She has been recognized as one of the nation's top estate planning lawyers by inclusion in several publications, including The Best Lawyers in America, Who's Who in American Law, Town & Country magazine and Bloomberg Personal Finance Magazine and was named Best Lawyers' 2010 Philadelphia Area Trusts and Estates Lawyer of the Year. She was also named the "1998 Distinguished Estate Planner" by the Philadelphia Estate Planning Council