I love family law. I’ve loved it since the beginning. My background is in clinical psychology. So I knew going through law school that I had to pick an area of law that was very people-centric. And when I first started in law school, I volunteered as an intern for a family court judge my very first summer. I got to know family law, see the litigants come in every day. I started to do research and writing for different family law private practitioners where I went to school all through the year. So all through law school I was working in family law. And it just drew me in because it’s really – there’s a lot of heart that’s needed in these cases. I mean, this is not a simple civil litigation transaction. You know, these are families that are essentially suing each other. So you have to have a certain level of emotional intelligence to work on these kind of cases and tolerance to be able to tolerate people that want to talk about their emotions, that need to, and that need you to factor them in as their lawyer. And I really enjoy that. I mean, to me any other kind of law would be very dry. This is the only kind of law I’ve ever gravitated toward and exclusively practiced it for the last 17 years.

The most rewarding aspect of my practice to me is taking a client from the very beginning of their case where they’re filled with fear and questions – they have no idea what they’re going through, what to do, what step to put in front of the next, how to organize their case, how to analyze it, what they’re going to expect at the end – and walking them through the entire process. Helping them do this major life transition and hopefully come out on the end of it much better off, which I believe they ultimately will be. And I can see that from the beginning. So I also love reassuring them that there is a life after this. That it will look different, but once a divorce is over, you know, theoretically hopefully they will be much happier than they are kind of going through the process. It’s a messy process, but that’s where I come into play, to demystify, to simplify things for clients, to help them strategically make good decisions for their future. I love doing that and I love concluding cases for people. A lot of people come to me that their divorce has been going on for years and they just can’t finish it for whatever reason. So one of the great joys for me is finishing, concluding things for a client and helping them move on to their next phase of life.