Cathryn Reher

Practice Areas
Cathryn Reher is a dedicated elder law attorney who joined the firm of Long, Reher & Hanson, P.A. located in St. Louis Park in 1998 and has been a shareholder of the firm since 2000. She has practiced elder law since graduating with high honors from Hamline University School of Law in 1991. An elder law attorney is a probate and estate planning attorney who combines this practice with an expertise in navigating the maze of governmental benefits for the benefit of the elderly and disabled.  Every client has the benefit of her knowledge in the areas of Medical Assistance and Veterans Homes planning, trusts, wills, real estate, advance decisions regarding health care, nursing home issues, long term care alternatives, and surrogate management of financial and personal matters.  She is recognized for her thorough and detailed estate and long term care planning analysis and passionate advocacy on behalf of her clients.

Professional Associations
Cathryn is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the Special Needs Alliance, the Elder Law Governing Council (and past secretary), and the Elder Law, Real Estate, and Probate and Trust sections of the Minnesota State Bar Association. She is Chair of the Medical Assistance Committee, and member of the State Plan and Legislative Committees, of the Elder Law Section. Cathryn lectures frequently to financial planners, and community groups on Medical Assistance and estate planning. She regularly serves as faculty and makes presentations on elder law topics at continuing legal education courses for attorneys through the Minnesota State Bar Association. She also regularly teaches professionals obtaining continuing education credits through Kaplan Professional Schools.

Professional Achievements
Cathryn has been recognized repeatedly as a Super Lawyer in Minnesota. In 2007, she was nominated by her peers as one of the Top 100 Women Super Lawyers and Top 40 Estate Planning and Probate Super Lawyers.  In past years, she was named as one of the top 50 female attorneys by Minnesota Law and Politics and one of the five top Elder Law Super Lawyers in Minnesota. She also received the prestigious Mary Alice Gooderl Award from the Elder Law Section of the MSBA in 2005 for her contribution to the practice of Elder Law in Minnesota.

Personal
Cathryn has a loving husband Tim, a daughter, Emma, and a son, Oscar, who live along with the family cat, Lily, and Cavalier King Charles spaniel Li’l Sis.  Her mother Jeanne, in her late-80s, is still living independently!  She is passionate about cooking and gardening, and loves to read, bike, backpack and travel.  Her favorite flowers are the brilliant orange globe flower and spiky sea holly.  A book she highly recommends to all is Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking with its assistive insights on coping with loss.