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Tanya Feinleib at Langley & Banack: Board Certified, and Still Volunteering at the Wills Clinic Every Year

Tanya Feinleib’s day job is sophisticated estate planning for high-net-worth families at a 39-year-old South Texas firm. Her volunteer work is training other lawyers — ones who don’t specialize in estate planning — to staff free Wills Clinics for low-income San Antonio residents, a decade-plus commitment that runs alongside, not instead of, her paying practice. This profile is part of Awesome Attorneys’ coverage of San Antonio estate planning attorney options.

At a Glance

Origin & Background

Feinleib practices from Langley & Banack’s San Antonio office, a full-service Central and South Texas firm founded in 1986 and recognized among Best Law Firms in America in the San Antonio metro. She earned Board Certification in Estate Planning and Probate Law from the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in January 2017 and was later named to the San Antonio Business Journal’s 40 Under 40. Beyond her billable practice, she has volunteered with SALSA (San Antonio Legal Services Association) and CJP for more than a decade, and now serves as a mentor for other attorneys participating in the firm’s Wills Clinic — training lawyers who don’t specialize in estate planning to competently draft documents for low-income clients.

San Antonio Estate Planning Attorney Practice Concentration

Feinleib’s practice focuses on sophisticated estate planning for high-net-worth individuals and families, including wills, trusts, and the more advanced planning techniques used to preserve family wealth across generations. She regularly presents continuing legal education programs to other attorneys — including “Basic Estate Planning” at the Building Blocks of Wills, Estates, and Probate conference and “Probate Procedures and Alternatives” at the San Antonio Estate Planners Council’s Docket Call — a level of teaching activity that reflects standing among peer practitioners, not just client-facing marketing.

Track Record

As an estate planning attorney, Feinleib’s public materials do not publish case-outcome statistics; the relevant track record is the range and complexity of matters and CLE topics she’s been asked to present on, spanning basic estate planning through revocable trust misuse and ancillary planning for death and incapacity. Individual estate plans are inherently client-specific; past planning experience does not guarantee any particular outcome for a new client’s situation.

Client Voice

Feinleib’s public profile is built primarily around her professional and volunteer record rather than a large public review base typical of consumer-facing practices, consistent with a high-net-worth planning practice where client relationships are usually private and referral-based rather than review-driven. In her own words on her Wills Clinic mentoring: “It’s such a great feeling to spend a few hours with these low-income clients and have them walk away with a complete set of estate planning documents that are signed and notarized.”

Beyond the Courtroom

Feinleib’s decade-plus volunteer commitment to SALSA and CJP, and her ongoing role mentoring other attorneys at the firm’s Wills Clinic, is a sustained pro bono practice rather than a one-time community-service listing. Her regular CLE speaking engagements — at minimum four documented multi-year programs — reflect ongoing peer teaching activity within the Texas estate planning bar.

Recognition

Feinleib’s Board Certification in Estate Planning and Probate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, held since January 2017, is the substantive credential this profile treats as most significant. Her San Antonio Business Journal 40 Under 40 selection is a locally-vetted recognition distinct from national pay-to-play award programs, and her repeated invitations to speak at CLE conferences for other estate planning attorneys is a peer-driven signal of subject-matter standing.

Texas Legal Backdrop

High-net-worth estate planning in Texas frequently involves techniques addressed under the federal estate and gift tax framework (26 U.S.C. § 2001 et seq.) alongside Texas’s own community property rules, since Texas’s marital property regime — where property acquired during marriage is generally community property — directly affects how an estate plan needs to characterize and transfer assets. Revocable living trusts, a topic Feinleib has specifically presented on regarding “use and misuse,” avoid Texas probate court involvement at death but require careful funding (retitling assets into the trust) to actually work — a step Texas estate planners routinely flag as the most common point of failure in otherwise well-drafted trust plans.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

Tanya Feinleib’s strongest credential is the board certification itself, paired with a genuinely active teaching and mentorship record inside the profession — presenting CLE programs to fellow estate planners year after year is a different kind of validation than winning a popularity-contest award. Her sustained Wills Clinic mentorship for low-income clients, run alongside a high-net-worth private practice, is a specific and verifiable form of community commitment.

The honest trade-off: her practice at a large full-service firm means clients should expect firm-standard billing rates suited to sophisticated planning, and her public materials don’t include the kind of large consumer review base that a solo practitioner might accumulate — appropriate for the high-net-worth clientele she serves, but worth naming for someone comparison-shopping purely on review volume.

Methodology & Sourcing

This profile was compiled from Langley & Banack’s own website and multiple firm news posts about Feinleib’s board certification, CLE presentations, and community recognition, plus the San Antonio Estate Planners Council member directory. Statutory references were checked against the U.S. Internal Revenue Code’s estate and gift tax provisions and general Texas community property principles. No case results, credentials, or quotes were invented; the quoted material is attributed to its original published source.

Publisher Disclosure & Independence Notice

Awesome Attorneys is an independent legal directory and editorial publication. This profile was not paid for, commissioned, or reviewed by Langley & Banack, Inc. prior to publication. Awesome Attorneys may in the future offer sponsored placements clearly labeled as such, but no payment of any kind determines inclusion in, or the content of, this editorial profile. This article is for informational purposes only, does not constitute legal advice, and does not create an attorney-client relationship between the reader and Tanya Feinleib, Langley & Banack, or Awesome Attorneys.