so i have almost 25 years of experience

as a martial artist i’m actually a

fourth degree black belt and i have

found that my martial arts training has

really helped me as a family law

attorney because it has helped me to

keep my cool in adversarial situations

so as a family law attorney i deal with

a lot of high conflict divorce and

custody litigation and there’s a lot of

emotions a lot of people are very angry

and upset and through my training in the

martial arts i have learned how to stay

calm cool and collected during these

periods where it’s very heated for

example in the martial arts style that i

practiced i would spar and you know do

different types of kickboxing and when

you’re kickboxing you have to

keep your cool

if you don’t or if you panic or you get

too excited you’re gonna get punched in

the face right you have to always have

your guard up be thinking a couple steps

ahead and and be relatively calm it’s

the same thing in uh custody litigation

or a divorce litigation if you get too

worked up over one issue um or you lose

sight of the overall goal you’re going

to lead your client astray you need to

be able to reel it all in and keep

everyone on the same page calm cool and

collected about what the goals are in

the case

so when i’m not practicing law i’m home

i’m a wife and a mother i have a son

he’s almost two years old he keeps me

very busy i also enjoy practicing in the

martial arts my husband is a head

instructor at a prominent school in this

area and so we like to train together as

a family we’re very fitness oriented

very disciplined in that way and i enjoy

cooking so i’m trying to teach my son

how to cook