Beth C. Manes

Beth C. Manes is a strong and passionate advocate for families with special needs. A partner at Manes & Weinberg in Westfield, New Jersey, she provides representation to clients throughout the state in matters involving special education as well as, estate planning and guardianships.

Ms. Manes pursued her undergraduate studies at Brandeis University, from where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1992 and received the David Alexander ?79 Memorial Award for Social Consciousness and Activism and the Richard Kaufman '58 Memorial Prize for Leadership and Academic Excellence. She then went on to attend the University of Michigan Law School, where she was an editor of the Michigan Journal of Gender and Law before being awarded her Juris Doctor in 1994. She is admitted to practice before all New Jersey state courts.

Ms. Manes is frequently asked to deliver presentations on topics related to her various practice areas, including how special needs children can affect both estate planning and the divorce process. Ms. Manes is the former Chair of the Solo and Small-Firm Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association. She is theÿPast President of Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of New Jersey, Inc., an organization that provides lifetime advocacy for people with special needs.ÿMs. Manes also serves on theÿBoard of Directors of Don?t Hide It, Flaunt It!, an organization that works to advance acceptance, understanding, tolerance and mutual respect for a person's blatant or invisible difference. She is also active in her community, raising puppies for the Seeing Eye of Morristown, having served on the Columbia High School Fencing Parents? Association Board, and on the Jewish Federation of Metrowest Women?s Philanthropy Board.