I have worked my entire legal career helping high net-worth professionals, individuals from all socioeconomic backgrounds, and their spouses, navigate complex family law matters. I ensure my clients' specific concerns are considered and addressed while developing a plan for their financial futures. Working with clients to identify and prioritize their financial and parenting issues and goals is a crucial step in each case and a constant work in progress. I understand that each client has different needs, goals and priorities, and if there are children involved, their best interests come before all other considerations. I have extensive experience addressing and demystifying executive compensation benefits and contracts, as well as dealing with valuations and cash flow issues of closely held businesses. I truly enjoy helping clients develop and assess their positions on financial issues by taking complex financial data and creating realistic models of potential outcomes so clients can assess their options as a whole and make the best decisions for their futures. While a skilled litigator, I prefer to resolve cases outside of the courtroom, when appropriate, so clients can actively participate in and direct their own settlements through mediation or other alternative dispute methods. My extensive training in mediation and the collaborative model help settle, even in the midst of litigation, the most difficult of issues. Prior to attending law school, I was the Director of Special Events for a radio station group in Indianapolis, Indiana, and subsequently worked as an assistant publicist at a Los Angeles entertainment public relations firm. Even though I was originally lured to the legal field to work in entertainment law, my background was more suited for helping individuals through an extraordinarily difficult time in their life.