Arthur Shani & Co. - Law Firm

Arthur Shani & Co. Law Firm is one of the leading family law, divorce, and inheritance firms in Israel . Led by Adv. Arthur Shani, the firm’s team maintains extensive experience and vast legal knowledge, providing professional services nationwide, including international cases. The firm emphasizes personalized legal service for each client, constantly striving for excellence. The team represents various clients, including senior executives, public figures, etc.

Company Vision: Family Law for Every Family, Every Where

The firm provides top-tier legal services, tailored to the unique needs of each family, while ensuring the highest level of expertise. The skilled team provides legal services to a maximum of 97 clients at a time, ensuring detailed, proactive service alongside extensive experience. The firm believes in the strength of diverse families and provides respectful and accessible services to all families, including the LGBTQ+ community, in Hebrew, English, and Russian.

Comprehensive Holistic Legal Service Model

The firm developed a distinct service model, based on an understanding of its clients’ needs, comprehensive questioning, and personalized legal strategy development. This model allows the firm to offer a comprehensive holistic legal service, saving clients valuable time through accessible communication and serving clients both domestically and internationally.
The Service Model Includes:

• An Initial Consultation Meeting: in-depth acquaintance with clients, providing a comprehensive legal explanation • Guidance of a Skilled Team: The teams have a deep understanding of their fields and undergo training and supervision
• Professional Collaborations: with therapists, parents’ guide, accountants, company valuers, etc.
• Holistic Legal Response: Considering all aspects, tailored to the needs of each client
• Availability, Accessibility and Transparency: regular reporting, maintaining client autonomy, and joint decision-making.
• Experience and Expertise: The team handles complex cases, working diligently and innovatively.

Up-to-Date Knowledge and Tailored Solutions

The firm is committed to excellence through constant learning, enrichment, and staying current with legal innovations.

Close Collaboration with Clients

The team listens to its clients’ needs and defines goals with them. Together, they create an accurate prioritization of tasks and make balanced and focused decisions to achieve the goal.

Personal and Humane Treatment

The team operates with empathy and compassion, accompanying client’s step by step until they achieve their legal goals.

Availability, Transparency, Communication, and Full Confidentiality

The firm ensures clients receive all relevant legal information and views them as full partners. The firm maintains maximum availability and efficiency, offering advanced technological communication methods for effective service. The team also ensures complete privacy for clients, including prominent figures.

10 Areas of Practice

1. Resolution of family disputes, divorce, and separation through litigation and legal proceedings: representation in all courts, including the rabbinical courts, from the first instance, through appeals and up to the Supreme Court. The firm handles divorce, annulments, parental responsibility distribution, minor visitation schedules, separation of common-law spouses, property division, and resource balancing.

2. Intergenerational transfer, wills, inheritances, estate management, and legal qualifications: drafting wills, applying for probate orders or inheritance orders, lasting power of attorney, estate distribution agreements, guardianships, cancellation of a lasting power of attorney, etc.

3. Management of capital, family wealth, assets, trusts, and family businesses: financial agreement between spouses, estate management, family trusts, the aspects of family businesses, family property, collection of family assets from an estate or division of property between separated spouses, etc.

4. Dispute settlement building agreements and dispute settlement in “private mediation”: mediation, arbitration, and negotiations, managing divorce and inheritance matters outside judicial forums, through negotiations between parties instead of lengthy, costly legal proceedings. The team works quickly, stays up to date and adapts to clients’ needs. Various agreements, including non-relationship parenting agreements, conflict resolution guidance, divorce agreements, reconciliation agreements as an alternative to divorce, separation agreements, relocation agreements, prenuptial agreements, cohabitation agreements, property division, and resource balancing agreements, dissolution of partnerships, etc.

5. Notary services in family laws: notarized wills, financial agreements, drafting notarial power of attorneys in the family, drafting a notarial power of attorney for the division of joint capital and property during divorce or separation, transfer of unescorted minors at border crossings, etc.

6. Administrative aspects of family laws: the firm represents its clients before the Ministry of the Interior in matters relating to immigration and legal status in Israel, including the regularization of status for foreign spouses, citizenship, etc. It also handles civil marriage registration, recognition of common-law marriage, and petitions to the High Court of Justice the rabbinical courts’ challenging decisions.

7. Criminal aspects of family laws: filing or responding to protection orders under the Family Violence Prevention Law, filing or responding to restraining orders under the Prevention of Harassment Law, and handling police complaints related to domestic violence.

8. Lectures and seminars for professionals and the public: the firm offers lectures suited for legal professionals (including attorneys seeking to specialize or change their field to family, divorce, and inheritance laws), as well as for related professions (social workers, CPAs, pension advisors, family and couples therapists, company appraisers, real estate appraisers, etc.) who seek insight from our perspective.

9. Networking, collaborations, and community involvement: the firm collaborates with attorneys from other fields as well as professionals in adjacent disciplines to provide clients with comprehensive, professional, and holistic services. Additionally, the firm offers a wide range of lectures for diverse audiences and maintains social and community involvement.

10. Work with us in the field of family law, divorce, and inheritance: the firm places great importance on human capital development and organic growth within itself. The firm trains its people thoroughly, personally, and deeply in family and inheritance law, across various contexts and family situations. Adv. Shani was certified by the Bar Association as trainer.

Company Management

The firm’s owner, founder, and manager is Adv. and Mediator Arthur Shani, who has extensive legal experience, including legislative consulting in the Knesset. He holds an LL.M. in Family Law – Mediation and Family or Legal Conflict Resolution from Bar-Ilan University, two bachelor’s degrees an LL.B. and a B.A. in Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy from Reichman University, and certifications in general mediation, family mediation, divorce and separation, intergenerational transfer, and arbitration. Adv. Shani has extensive experience in handling complex and varied family issues.