Arthur Shani & Co. - Law Firm

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

Company Vision: Family Law for Every Family

The firm provides premium legal service customized to the unique needs of each family while ensuring the highest level of professionalism. The skilled team, consisting of up to 12 members, provides legal services to a maximum of 97 clients at any given 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 types of families, including the LGBTQ+ community, in Hebrew, English, and Russian.

Comprehensive Holistic Legal Service Model

The company developed a distinct service model, based on an in-depth understanding of client’s 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 by a Skilled Team: The teams has a deep understanding of their fields and undergo constant training and supervision
• Professional collaboration: with family therapists, parents’ guide, accountants, company valuers and other professionals.
• 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 Personalized Solutions

Thefirm is committed to professional excellence through ongoing learning, enrichment, and staying current with legal innovations, ensuring tailored service.

Close Cooperation with Clients

The team listens to needs and defines goals with the client. 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, and Open Communication

The firm ensure clients receive all relevant legal information and views them as full and active partners. The firm maintains maximum availability and efficiency, offering advanced technological communication methods for effective service.

Full Confidentiality

The team ensures complete privacy for clients, including prominent figures in the Israeli economy and society.

9 Areas of Practice

The firm maintains nine areas of practice to provide professional services using current approaches.
1. Resolution of family disputes, divorce, and separation through litigation and legal proceedings: representation in all legal courts, including the rabbinic courts, from the first instance, through appeals of Family Court and Rabbinical Court decisions, up to the Supreme Court. The firm handles divorce, annulment of marriage, 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. Family matters at the administrative level: representation before the Ministry of Interior regarding immigration and status in Israel, regularizing the status of foreign partners, citizenship, civil marriage registration, handling common-law partners, and petitions to the Supreme Court against Rabbinical Court rulings.
4. Management of capital, property, assets, and family businesses, trusts, and receivership: financial agreement between spouses, estate management, family trusts, the family aspect of family businesses, family property, collection of family assets from an estate or division of property between separated spouses, etc.
5. Dispute settlement building agreements and dispute settlement in “private mediation”: mediation, arbitration, and negotiations, divorce, and inheritance matters outside judicial forums, through negotiations between disputing parties instead of lengthy, costly legal proceedings. The team works quickly, stays updated with frequent changes in their fields, adapting 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 partnership agreements, and more.
6. Family matters on the criminal level: Applications or responses to protection orders under the Family Violence Prevention Law, applications or responses to orders under the Prevention of Stalking Law, dealing with police complaints regarding domestic violence.
7. Notary services: notarized will, notarized financial agreement. Drafting a notarial power of attorney in the family, drafting a notarial power of attorney for the division of joint capital and property during divorce or separation, transfer of minors hooks at the border crossings, and more.
8. Lectures, workshops, networking, and collaborations: The firm engages in networking and collaborations with lawyers from other fields and related professionals to provide comprehensive and professional services in family law. Additionally, the firm offers a variety of lectures to different audiences.
9. Join Us: Career Opportunities at the Firm: Arthur Shani & Co. Law Firm places great importance on human capital development and organic growth within the firm. The firm trains its people thoroughly, personally, and deeply in family and inheritance law, across various contexts and family situations. Attorney, mediator, and arbitrator Arthur Shani is certified by the Israel Bar Association as an authorized trainer.

Company Management

The owner, founder, and manager of the firm is attorney and mediator Arthur Shani, who maintians extensive legal experience, including legislative consulting in the Knesset. He holds a Master’s degree in law (LL.M) in Family Law – Mediation and Family or Legal Conflict Resolution from Bar-Ilan University, two Bachelor’s degrees in law (LL. B) and Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy (B.A) from Reichman University in Herzliya, and certifications in general mediation, family mediation, divorce and separation, intergenerational transfer, and arbitration. Attorney Shani has extensive experience in handling complex and varied family issues, including appeals, contemporary families, LGBTQ+ couples, common-law partners, and alternative parenting.