Verrill’s Wide-Ranging Private Wealth Law Practice Recognized in 2024 Chambers and Partners High Net Worth Guide

PORTLAND, Maine and BOSTON, Mass. – Verrill attorneys Kurt Klebe, Mary McQuillen, Jacqueline Rider, and Mary Schmidt have been recognized in the Chambers High Net Worth 2024 Guide, Chambers and Partners’ eighth edition of the publication specifically aimed at the international private wealth market. The firm was ranked in “band 1,” the highest ranking a firm can receive from Chambers and Partners, for its wide-ranging private wealth law practice in Maine, while Mary Schmidt was ranked as a leading individual in Family/Matrimonial law in Massachusetts.

Chambers delivers insight and analysis on the global legal profession. During the High Net Worth review process, 200 Chambers Research Analysts, across 200 jurisdictions provide nearly 6,000 ranking tables and collect hundreds of thousands of responses from clients.

The Chambers and Partners’ High Net Worth Guide provides a resource for accessing the world’s leading high net worth advisers, including lawyers, bankers, accountants, and investment managers, among others serving this market internationally. Chambers and Partners, one of the world’s most respected legal research and publishing firms, interviewed hundreds of professionals to assess the reputations and experience of professionals across the world in the private wealth sector.

Verrill’s Private Clients & Fiduciary Services Group works closely with individuals and families to understand the clients’ priorities and goals for the legacies they wish to provide. As part of their service to clients, members of the group will also serve as trustees of trusts and as personal representatives of estates.

Kurt Klebe, Partner, focuses his practice in all aspects of estate planning, probate administration and trust administration, as well as tax planning and charitable gift planning for individuals and nonprofit entities. He has also been recognized in Best Lawyers in America© as Lawyer of the Year in the practice of Trusts and Estates and has been elected as a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.

Mary McQuillen, Counsel, has practiced trusts and estates law since 1987, both in Maine and New York. Her practice includes representation of private foundations and other tax-exempt organizations, as well as estate planning, trust and estate administration and representation of fiduciaries. She has also been recognized in Best Lawyers in America© in the practice of Trusts and Estates.

Jacqueline Rider, Partner, Chair of Verrill’s Private Clients & Fiduciary Services Group, and Co-Chair of the Probate Litigation Group, focuses her practice on all aspects of probate litigation, estate planning, probate administration, and trust administration. Rider has 28 years of experience successfully litigating a variety of civil matters in federal, state, and probate courts. She has also been recognized in Best Lawyers of America© in the practices of Trust and Estates and Litigation: Trust and Estates, and in 2016, 2018, 2021, and 2023 was named as the Portland, Maine Litigation-Trusts and Estates Lawyer of the Year.

Mary Schmidt, Counsel, has a wealth of experience in trusts and estates, domestic relations and probate litigation at the trial and appellate levels. Her sophisticated practice focuses on guiding clients through complex gift, estate and income tax planning, trust and estate planning, prenuptial and post nuptial agreement preparation, negotiation and litigation, and estate administration. She has also been recognized by Boston Magazine as a Super Lawyer and by The Best Lawyers in America© under Elder Law, Family Law, Litigation – Trusts and Estates.