Wiegand Attorneys and Counselors LLC welcomes Doriana Rosaria Fontanella as Special Counsel to the firm and elevates Kimberly Johnson Raemdonck to Senior Association. The firm is located in Uptown Denver and Breckenridge, Colorado and specializes in business, tax law and estate planning.

Fontanella is an estate planner and estate and trust administrator with an emphasis in special needs planning, entity formation, and tax issues. She says, "I assist clients with any number of issues from IRS controversy to financial planning, and wills that ensuring that their legacies reflect their true wishes. I also have a specialty in estate planning for families where a potential beneficiary has taken religious vows of poverty."

Previously Fontanella was working as Of Counsel to the law firm. She has held Of Counsel and Associate Attorney positions at other Denver area firms including the Limbaugh Law Firm. She started her estate planning career as an attorney at Katz, Look and Moison, PC in 2000 after graduating from University of Denver – Strum College of Law with an LL.M. in Tax Law and earned her JD at from Notre Dame. She is originally from New York and has resided in Colorado since 1981. She is a licensed in both Colorado and New York State.

Raemdonck focuses her practice in the areas of estate planning, probate, and tax. The other attorneys at the firm include Robert "Sonny" Wiegand II who founded the firm and Doriana Rosaria Fontanella who works as Special Counsel.  Wiegand states, "In her time at the firm she has proven to be a talented tax professional with a strong commitment to clients coupled with a high level of integrity. This is a well-deserved promotion that speaks to her expanding role and responsibilities within our firm."

Raemdonck received both her LLM in Taxation in 2013 and her JD in 2012 from the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law. She earned her BA in 2009 from Texas A&M University where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with University Honors and Foundation Honors.

She is licensed in Colorado and a member of the American, Colorado, and Denver Bar Associations where she is a member of the Trust & Estates, Business Law, Tax, and Solo & Small Firm Sections of the Colorado and American Bar Associations. She is also co-chair of the Membership Committee of the Women's Estate Planning Council and active in the Trusts and Estates Young Lawyers Committee.