Shaina A. Case

Shaina A. Case is a Partner at Hathaway & Kunz, LLP in Cheyenne with a practice focused on trusts and estate law. She designs will-based and revocable trust-based estate plans, prepares powers of attorney and health care directives, and advises on probate avoidance and wealth transfer. Her practice includes federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax planning, asset protection strategies, special needs trusts, and estate and trust administration.

Shaina earned a J.D. with honors from the University of Wyoming in 2013. She earned two B.A. degrees from the University of Wyoming in Spanish and Criminal Justice in 2010. After law school, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Kelly H. Rankin, US Chief Magistrate Judge for the District of Wyoming. Her academic and judicial experience supports careful drafting, legal analysis, and procedural understanding.

Shaina guides personal representatives through court-supervised probate and advises trustees and beneficiaries during trust administration. Her broader practice includes business formation, entity purchases and sales, residential and commercial real estate matters, premarital agreements, easements, rights of first refusal, adoption, guardianship and conservatorship matters, and Medicaid planning. She combines planning and administration work with practical attention to family circumstances, property ownership, tax exposure, and future decision making.

Shaina A. Case has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for Corporate Law, Elder Law, Real Estate Law, and Trusts and Estates for 2027. She has presented on probate, estate planning, estate administration, charitable planning, and related topics. Her work helps clients organize assets, plan for incapacity, reduce administrative burdens, and carry out estate or trust responsibilities with clear legal guidance.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Hathaway & Kunz LLP
• Member, Wyoming State Bar
• Chair, Estate Planning, Elder Law, Trust & Probate Section of the Wyoming State Bar (October (2025-Present)
• Chair Elect, Estate Planning, Elder Law, Trust & Probate Section of the Wyoming State Bar (2024)
• Secretary, Ewing T. Kerr American Inn of Court (2017-2019)
• Volunteer, Equal Justice Wyoming
• Member, Wealth Counsel (2017-Present)
• Board Member, Holy Trinity Manor Board (2021-Present)
• Board Member, Friends of the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens Foundation (2020-Present)
• Board Member, Montessori School of Cheyenne Board (2023)
• Vice Chair , Chair , Past Chair, Greater Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce Red Carpet Committee (2019)
• Member, Southeast Wyoming Estate Planning Council (2017-Present)
• Member, Greater Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce, Leadership Cheyenne (Class of 2019-2020)
• Member, Wyoming Civil Pattern Jury Instruction Committee (2017-2019)

Licensed State

• Wyoming

Education

• University of Wyoming
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• University of Wyoming
  B.A. (Spanish)
• University of Wyoming
  B.A. (Criminal Justice)

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