While I started out my career at a huge Wall Street firm in New York City to pay off my student debt, the day after I made my final student loan payment, I became a juvenile attorney. And while the 80% pay cut was breathtaking, I never looked back.

The privilege of making a difference in the lives of real people was worth every penny. In the years since, I have searched for ways to practice law that are more collaborative with and responsive to my clients’ needs and less focused on business as usual.

The “access to justice” gap is growing daily within our state and the Rogue Valley as the costs of legal services rise – including all of the resources we use. Many families are being priced out of the legal market. Rogue Family Law grew out of my struggle to find sustainable ways to help families find positive transformation during the legal process.

We have always collaborated closely with our clients, built effective networks with experts from other professions and used technology to “work smarter” to help our clients achieve their goals. But we haven’t been able to reach the broader range of families within our community who can’t afford full-service, traditional representation.

To balance the need for high quality advocacy with affordability, we have redesigned the way in which we are working with clients. Fine-tuning and expanding our team and tools, we now offer a range of services from do-it-yourself assisted representation to workshops, collaborative law and mediation. We are still available for full service representation if necessary but our focus on your life and your case means we now have the flexibility to do it your way.

I am licensed to practice in New York, Florida, Maine and Oregon. I am also admitted to the federal courts of the Southern District of New York, the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida and the District of Oregon. I was admitted to the 11^th Circuit Court of Appeals of the United States and served as a lawyer representative to the 9^th Circuit Court of Appeals of the United States. I have practiced at both the trial and appellate levels of these state and federal courts, in an array of subject areas including, family law, complex commercial litigation, educational, employment, civil rights and criminal law. I have extensive trial experience spanning over thirty-three years  in jury, bench and administrative cases. In 2020, I was appointed to the Oregon Statewide Family Law Advisory Committee by the Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. I co-chair the Domestic Violence and Futures Subcommittees.

I graduated from Boston College with a bachelor’s degree, cum laude, in history and political science. I received my law degree from New York University where I earned the American Jurisprudence Award in Child, Parent and State and the Aileen Haas Schwartz Award I received for Outstanding Work in the Field of Children's Law.

In addition to founding Rogue Family Law and running my own practices, I was Senior Corporate Counsel to AT&T Wireless Services, served as an Assistant Public Defender in  Ft. Lauderdale and was an Associate for the law firms of Greenberg Traurig, also in Ft. Lauderdale, FL as well as at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. My time at Cleary Gottlieb included working in their New York City office as well as clerking in their London, England, office and working on assignment in their Tokyo, Japan office.