WANDA S. WHARE

Wanda S. Whare specializes in transactional, business and employment law. This includes setting up various corporate entities and partnerships; reviewing and drafting leases and contracts; handling general business matters including acquisitions; and advising employers on a wide range of employment issues including , drafting employment manuals, responding to discrimination claims, and representing employers in unemployment hearings. She is knowledgeable in matters concerning Elder Law and drafts wills, powers of attorney and living wills. In addition, she also provides counsel to developers of affordable housing.

She is a 1981 graduate of Franklin & Marshall College and a 1984 graduate of the Dickinson School of Law. Following graduation, Wanda worked in the Chief Counsel's Office of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, and subsequently was in-house counsel for two nationwide companies in the construction and distribution industries for over eleven years before coming to Nikolaus & Hohenadel, LLP.Wanda has been admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

She is a member of the Lancaster Bar Association where she is the current chair of the Corporate Business and Bankruptcy Section and past chair of the Employment Law Section. She serves on the Board of Dollars for Scholars of Lancaster County, the Board of Sudan Rebirth Ministry and the Personnel and Nominating Committee of the Housing Development Corporation MidAtlantic. Wanda is a member of the Lancaster County Association for Human Resource Management and American Business Women's Association.