Managing Partner
CurrentRepresent and advise clients in family law matters involving divorce, child custody, adoption, guardianship, child support, alimony, child abuse and neglect, modification of custody, post-divorce contempt, high net worth property division of assets of more than $5 million dollars, and marital asset tracing.▪️Represented more than 400 clients in family law matters.▪️Negotiate and settle multiple divorce, custody, child support, adoption, and guardianship cases utilizing collaborative resolution techniques.▪️Develop trial strategy, prepare fact and expert witnesses to testify at trial, and prepare exhibits. Conducted more than 300 trials in D.C. Superior Court, Maryland District Courts, and Maryland Circuit Courts.▪️Appointed to D.C. Superior Court Counsel for Child Abuse and Neglect to serve as Guardian ad litem to children and to represent indigent parents at all stages of proceedings from initial hearing through disposition.▪️Draft motions and represent clients during motion hearings. Propound and respond to written discovery requests. Take and defend depositions. ▪️Prepare appellate briefs and present oral arguments in divorce and adoption appellate matters. ▪️Represent clients in alternative dispute resolution proceedings.