Peter was raised on a farm located 60 miles north of Minneapolis, Minnesota. While working several jobs to pay for his education, he graduated cum laude and with honors from the University of Minnesota in 1987 and graduated cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1990.

Furthering his study of estate, gift and generation skipping taxation, Peter earned an LL.M. in Taxation from the top-ranked NYU tax program. An LL.M. is an intensive one-year program focusing on a single area of the law that is in addition to the typical three-year J.D. program.

Following a family tradition of military service, Peter served as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy JAG Corp. In 1992, the Navy awarded his team of attorneys a Meritorious Unit commendation for providing estate planning services to more than 10,000 service members deployed to the Middle East during Desert Storm/Desert Shield.

After leaving the Navy, Peter focused his practice in the area of estate planning. By concentrating his practice exclusively on estate planning, Peter is able to provide his clients with an understanding of the subtleties, including most recent changes in gift, estate, inheritance and generation skipping taxes.

Since founding his own firm in 1998, Peter’s estate planning practice has flourished. He now represents clients throughout the country, from California and Washington to Maine and Florida. Although Peter, his wife Lisa and son Ben have settled in Philadelphia, he utilizes the most modern techniques to provide estate planning services throughout the country. Business is conducted through email, fax, phone, the mail and overnight delivery or in person at the client’s home or at the office of their local professional advisors. Peter is a member of the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Minnesota, New York and Florida state bars.

Jeanna is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and focuses her practice primarily on the areas of estate planning and estate administration.

Jeanna incorporates techniques such as tax planning, wills, trusts (revocable and irrevocable), disclaimers, dynasty trusts, and life insurance planning to provide her clients with comprehensive estate plans, and then works together with clients and their advisors to ensure that the plans are implemented.

On the estate administration side, Jeanna regularly handles the administration of estates from start to finish, including opening the estate with the appropriate authority, negotiating with creditors to settle debts of the decedent, preparing and filing the necessary estate and inheritance tax returns, preparing and filing fiduciary income tax returns if required, and making distributions of estate assets to beneficiaries. In conjunction with her estate administration practice, Jeanna has appeared before the Orphans’ Court and the Superior Court in several counties in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, respectively.

Jeanna graduated Cum Laude from Widener University School of Law in Wilmington, Delaware where she served as an Articles Editor for the Widener Law Review. In 2009, she earned an Estate Planning Certification through the Graduate Tax Program at Temple University Beasley School of Law.

Kathleen is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Kathleen focuses her practice primarily in the areas of Estate Administration and Estate Planning.

Kathleen counsels clients in effectively and efficiently administering simple to complex Estates and Trusts from inception to end. Kathleen utilizes her previous experience working in the Title Insurance Industry at DST Land Transfer, Inc., and practicing Real Estate Law when representing clients with real property issues in conjunction with probating and settling decedent’s Estates. Kathleen also represents clients in matters before the Pennsylvania Orphans’ Court and New Jersey Superior Court and also assists the firm’s Principal Attorney, Peter L. Klenk, Esq., in administering Estates located in New York and Florida. Kathleen’s practice includes assisting clients with ancillary probate, preparing death tax returns, fiduciary income tax returns, as well as informal and formal court accountings.

On the Estate Planning side, Kathleen counsels clients with respect to tax and life insurance matters. Kathleen drafts estate planning documents such as wills, irrevocable and revocable trusts, disclaimers, dynasty trusts, and works in conjunction with clients and their financial advisors to ensure their Estate Plans are properly implemented.

Kathleen graduated Cum Laude from Temple University with a B.A. in Psychology and earned her J.D. from Widener University School of Law. In 2009, she accomplished an Estate Planning Certification through the Graduate Tax Program at Temple University Beasley School of Law.

Amanda focuses her practice in the area of probate, trust, estate, and fiduciary litigation. She represents a wide variety of parties, including, but not limited to, personal representatives, beneficiaries, intestate heirs, trustees, and other interested parties in disputes concerning trust and estate administration, trust and will interpretation, will contests, and claims against probate estates. Amanda is experienced in Pennsylvania Orphans’ Court and New Jersey Surrogate Court practice and procedure and appears before the Pennsylvania Orphans’ Courts throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as well as before the Superior Courts throughout the State of New Jersey.

Amanda was recently selected for inclusion in the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers–Rising Stars Edition 2010, which was published in the June 2010 issue of Philadelphia Magazine. A Rising Star is one of a select group of Pennsylvania’s top up-and-coming attorneys who must be 40 years of age and under or have practiced law ten or fewer years. Being named a Super Lawyers Rising Star is a peer nominated distinction awarded to only the top 2.5% of lawyers in each state.

In addition to her estate litigation practice, Amanda also practices in the area of estate planning and estate administration.

Amanda assists clients with complex and sophisticated estate planning techniques, generational wealth planning, business succession planning, and charitable gifting strategies. Amanda represents clients in all aspects of complex estate planning and provides tax advice in conjunction with sophisticated planning techniques.

Amanda holds an LL.M. in Taxation from the prestigious Villanova University School of Law Graduate Tax Program and a J.D. from the Roger Williams University School of Law in Rhode Island, where she graduated at the top of her class. Amanda is currently pursuing a second LL.M. in Trial Advocacy from the Temple University School of Law and will graduate in May of 2011. Amanda also holds a B.A. in International Politics from The Pennsylvania State University.

Amanda is a member of the bars of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and State of New Jersey and is also licensed to practice before the United States Tax Court.

Brett is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and assists the firm in all areas of the Trusts and Estates field.

Brett is a 2008 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where he was the Asst. Student Note Editor for the Pittsburgh Tax Review and a Senior Editor for JURIST. Prior to law school, Brett graduated from Franklin & Marshall College, cum laude, in Lancaster, PA with a B.A. in Government.

Stephen Ferry has been with Klenk Law for over eight years, and assists the firm in all areas of the practice. He specializes in compiling estate accountings, drafting and filing related tax returns, and handling of Crummey procedures for various clients. Stephen graduated from Temple University with a BA in Communications & Theater. He is currently taking additional classes in Accounting and Business at Temple University to augment his knowledge of trust and estate finances.

Patricia graduated from the University of Wisconsin-STOUT with a B.S. in Fashion Merchandising and Management with a Business Minor. She worked with a national retail chain as store management for a few years before applying her retail experience into managing the field personnel nationwide for a music company. Most recently, Tricia worked in the real estate profession for 7 years and currently works part-time for a licensed Abstractor. In addition, she provides wills, trusts and probate paralegal services to the Law Offices of Peter L. Klenk on a part-time basis. Tricia lives with her husband, Kent, in the Mankato area of MN.

Heather Tabery moved to Philadelphia in the fall of 2009 from Minnesota. She has a BA in Art History from Hamline University in Saint Paul, MN. She began working for The Law Offices of Peter Klenk as the Data Manager and is now being trained by Attorneys DiChello and Murphy to be the litigation paralegal. She is happy to be the support for the litigation team.

Krystle Wright is a native of Jamaica who came to United States at the age of 6. Since then she has lived in Philadelphia where she now attends the University of Pennsylvania with a major in Anthropology and Japanese. After graduation she plans to earn a Masters in Education and hopefully travel around the world. In her spare time Krystle enjoys dancing, reading, martial arts and watching television.