Claudia N. Shank

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Claudia Shank is an Associate in the firm’s Lancaster office, where she practices in the Real Estate Group. Prior to joining the firm, Claudia served as an Assistant Solicitor for Lancaster County where she provided advice to the Board of Commissioners and County department heads and elected officials on a broad range of legal issues, including employment matters and compliance with the County Code and the Sunshine Act. During her time at the County, Claudia represented the Lancaster County Children and Youth Agency in dependency matters and termination of parental rights hearings in the Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas and in child abuse expunction and kinship appears before the Department of Human Services’ Bureau of Hearings and Appeals. Claudia also served as the Solicitor for the Lancaster County Office of Aging and represented the Agency in guardianship proceedings. Before working in the County Solicitor’s Office, Claudia served as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Jeffery D. Wright of the Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas and assisted in the development of Lancaster County’s Veterans Treatment Court.

Claudia earned her law degree from Drexel University School of Law and her undergraduate degree from West Chester University of Pennsylvania.