In addition to my private family law practice, I am a court appointed Parenting Coordinator, as appointed by the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County. In 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 I was named a “Rising Star” Pennsylvania attorney by Pennsylvania Law and Politics Magazine. I served on the faculty of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's Continuing Legal Education Course, Your First Divorce Case, December, 2010, Family Law 101, July, 2009, and Bankruptcy for Domestic Relations Practice, March, 2006, and prepared the course materials for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s The Ultimate Support Notebook program, January, 2010. I also served on the faculty for National Business Institute’s “Complex Custody Litigation” in October, 2009, “Negotiating Settlements in Divorce Matters” in July, 2008 and “Family Law Litigation” in October, 2008. I authored Public Access to Private Information on Online Dockets, which was published in the Pennsylvania Family Lawyer, Vol. 27, Issue No. 4, December 2005, and was Co-author, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, 2005, Tax Consequences in Divorce: Avoiding the Pitfalls. She also served on Member The Honorable Eugene F. Scanlon, Jr.'s (Administrative Judge of the Family Division of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County) ad hoc Privacy Task Force.In 2010, I was appointed to a three year term on the Board of Directors for ACBA Services, Inc. I am a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association Public Service Committee and a Co-Chair of the Allegheny County Bar Association Family Law Section Public Service Committee. As a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association Public Service Committee, the Pennsylvania Bar Association House of Delegates, Zone 12, and the Pennsylvania Bar Association Family Law Section. I was s recently appointed to a three year term on the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Family Law Section Council.Specialties: family law litigation including prenuptial agreements, divorce litigation, custody litigation and support litigation, adoption and gestational carrier matters