For more than a decade Diane Baltzelle McWhirter, Attorney, has been a Top Rated Lawyer with a "Superb" 5-Star Rating by AVVO National Attorney Ratings.

Since 2019 she has been included in America's Most Honored American Lawyers by The American Registry.

For more than a decade she has been a Member of Orlando Rotary Club. Since 2013 she has served as a Paul Harris Fellow of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International. She served as Secretary of Orlando Rotary Foundation in 2022-23.

For more than a decade Diane B. McWhirter, Attorney, has been Rated A+ by the Better Business Bureau.

She previously received the Bronze Service Award from the Florida Supreme Court for her volunteer legal service to the community. Diane B. McWhirter, Attorney, is a past Chair of the Elder Law and of the Estate Guardianship and Trust Committees of the Orange County Bar Association.

A graduate of Duke University, Diane Baltzelle McWhirter served as an Admissions Interviewer before serving as her Class Co-Chair for the Duke University 100th Anniversary Celebration in 2024.

Diane B. McWhirter, Attorney, was featured in Fortune magazine, Women Leaders in Law, September 2015.

Fortune Magazine's Women Leaders in Law

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PUBLICATIONS and SEMINARS

Diane Baltzelle McWhirter, Attorney, lectures to attorneys, accountants, financial planners and paralegals, for the National Business Institute.The seminars below were presented through National Business Institute (https://www.nbi-sems.com):

  • Florida Probate Process from Start to Finish:
    "Practical Primer for an Ethical Probate Administration"
    • Presented March 22, 2024, Product 97939
  • “Tempest in a Teapot” or “How to Avoid Courtroom Drama in Estate Sales”
    • Presented June 15, 2023 at Orlando Rotary Club
  • Florida Probate Process from Start to Finish:
    "Practical Primer for an Ethical Probate Administration"
    • Presented March 28, 2023, Product 961185
  • Advanced Family Law “Death and Divorce – Estate Planning Considerations & Ethics”
    Presented on Sept 12, 2019 in Orlando, Florida.
  • Probate Process from Start to Finish for Paralegals:
    “Dealing with the Spouses’ Elective Shares” and “Understanding the Laws of Intestacy”
    • presented on May 17, 2019 in Tampa, Florida
  • Trusts Top Challenges:
  • “Grantor Trust Malfunctions and Fixes and Trust Basics and Choice of Trust Dilemnas,”
    • presented on August 10, 2018, in Orlando.
  • Trusts from A to Z:
  • “What are Trusts? Simple Testamentary Trusts and Revocable Living Trusts… and Legal Ethics,”
    • presented on August 15, 2017 in Orlando.
  • Probate Boot Camp:
  • “Probating Insolvent and Bankrupt Estates and Re-Opening Estates,- When, How and Why,”
    • presented on December 10, 2012 in Orlando.
  • “Attorneys Guides to Managing Clients – How to Handle Tough Clients, Firing a Client” and “Legal Ethics”
    • presented on December 3, 2012 in Orlando.