Shira Katz Scanlon, Esq.

Shira Katz Scanlon

Ms. Katz Scanlon has broad experience in all aspects of family law. She has litigated and navigated amicable resolutions in all areas and types of matrimonial matters in all stages, addressing all issues including custody, child support, alimony as well as domestic violence.

Ms. Katz Scanlon has been practicing exclusively Matrimonial Law, in all areas, since completing her clerkship in 2010. Ms. Katz Scanlon completed a one-year clerkship with the Honorable Linda Feinberg, Assignment Judge Superior Court in Trenton, New Jersey in 2009-2010. After her clerkship, Ms. Katz Scanlon joined a law firm, where she was an associate attorney practicing family law, before becoming a shareholder of Martine & Katz Scanlon.

Ms. Katz Scanlon received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Rutgers University in August 2005. She earned her Juris Doctor from the Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Drexel University in May 2009, where she graduated magna cum laude as a member of the inaugural class.

Ms. Katz Scanlon co-founded the Jewish Law Students’ Association in her first year of law school and was selected by the faculty as a member of Drexel’s Inaugural Moot Court Board. During her tenure at Drexel University, Ms. Katz Scanlon also received the Excellence in Service Award for her work with the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project, and she received the Exceptional Service Honors Pro Bono Award. She received the law school’s Inaugural Distinguished Alumni award in 2016. That year, she was also recognized by American Jewish Committee, on which Board she served at the time, and received the Murray Friedman Emerging Leader Award.

Ms. Katz Scanlon participated in the Burlington County Domestic Violence Pro Bono Clinic when same was active, where she volunteered her time to represent indigent victims of domestic violence. She continues with her involvement with Project S.A.R.A.H. and as a Board Member and Vice President of the Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey, on which Board she served until 2025.  In 2021, The Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey honored Ms. Katz Scanlon with the Shellie Greenspun Young Leadership Award. She is also an active member of the District IV Ethics Committee of the Supreme Court, to which she was appointed in 2019.

Ms. Katz Scanlon was an Adjunct Professor and Program Coordinator for the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project at Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law through the spring of 2020. Ms. Katz Scanlon is currently President of the non-profit Women Owned Law, where she has served on the Board since 2023, previously chaired the organization’s annual Symposium in 2022 through 2024, and she is currently overseeing the organization’s growth plan.  She received Women Owned Law’s Distinguished Member Service Award in 2025.

AWARDS & honors

Distinguished Alumni Award; Kline School of Law Drexel University; 2016

Murray Friedman Emerging Leader Award; American Jewish Committee; 2016

Shellie Greenspun Young Leadership Award; Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey; 2021

Distinguished Member Service Award, Women Owned Law; 2025

 

 

Speaking, presenting/CLE & publications

Four Strong Arguments in Support of Collaborative Family Law Approach and One OK Argument Against; co-authored with Sarah Martine Belfi, Esq.; NJ Family Lawyer; March, 2020

Panelist; Women Owned Law Symposium; Tips from the Trenches; March, 2020

Presenter & Moderator (Co-Chair); Women Owned Law Firm Boot Camp; February, 2025 & October, 2025

Moderator; Fireside Chat with NJ Supreme Court Justice Rachel Wainer Apter; March, 2025

Presenter: Barrack Hebrew Academy, Legal Counsel CLE; The Business of Law; November, 2025

Presenter; NJ State Bar Association CLE; Mastering Online Marketing for Lawyers: Strategies, Ethics, and Best Practices in an AI-Driven World; March, 2026