the firm mission of tough lock jarabek

and o’connell is to provide skillful

creative

effective and ethical

family law services for litigation

alternative dispute resolution and

probate and estate planning which is

what we do

we pride ourselves on being

very caring and very compassionate so

that we can help our clients

come to a resolution that is in their

best interests

one of the things that makes us

different is kind of the breadth of

experience that we have and we have

attorneys who are

in their 70s down to in their 30s you

have maybe the fresher ideas more

recently in law school on the younger

end and then the people who’ve you know

seen

almost everything uh on the older end so

amongst the eight of us there’s that

piece

um and i think another thing that makes

us different

um is we all have a unique um

approach to family law so one of our

attorneys does a lot of juvenile law one

of our attorneys is a cpa and does a lot

of work with banking and business

divorce type cases

a couple of more recently law clerks one

was a domestic abuse advocate and

one of our attorneys does estate

planning

as about half of her practice so i think

that brings a lot of knowledge to the

table

so when we you know need to bounce ideas

off one another there’s just this giant

knowledge base

at the firm

we practice family law

we have one lawyer who does wills trusts

probate

guardianships conservatorships and the

rest of our lawyers

do

representation of people who are getting

a divorce have a custody

matter

domestic abuse cases we handle trials of

all all types of family law matters

appeals to the court of appeals in

minnesota and the minnesota supreme

court

so our firm provides a very high level

of service

we utilize what’s called a team approach

which means not only will an attorney be

assigned to your case but also a

paralegal and a legal assistant which

means if you need to

get communication from the attorney or

from someone on your case you can speak

to not only if the attorney’s

unavailable the paralegal or legal

assistant to get assistance

additionally we’re able to utilize lower

billing rates which makes your case more

cost effective

when you’re hiring a family law attorney

i think the first thing you look for is

comfort you want to be able to have a

good conversation

with the individual you want to make

sure that the attorney is listening to

you

i think that is a real key component as

opposed to

some attorneys um and i

teach at the law school we talk about

this quite a bit

there are times when attorneys want to

tell you all the knowledge they have as

opposed to listen

to the individuals and make sure the

attorney is actively listening to you

and your needs

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so anything under the family law

umbrella including

people with

going through a divorce with all types

of assets you think of an asset we’ve

somebody at our firm has has dealt with

somebody with with a client with that

type of an asset we represent

people with custody issues child support

issues

third party

where maybe a grand grandmother’s been

taking care of a grandchild for a couple

years

and the the parents are out of the

picture and they want to get custody so

any anything um relating to

going into court to try to get

custody

set up or child support or alimony or

getting a divorce