I get to help people uh and see the

immediate rewards of of that help that I

give to them I have clients that still

send me holiday cards send me text

messages wishing me well they’re just

very thankful I you know I was there for

them you know trying to be that person

they could that can give them objective

advice and navigate them through a

really you know difficult period but you

know also be there to to support them

and and make sure that we get the best

outcome for them and there’s not a lot

of areas in the legal profession that

gets the kind of or has that kind of

impact on uh with clients that that that

we do as part of our family law

practice the advice that I often give to

clients is essentially to follow the

Golden Rule treat others how you want to

be treated I think it’s very easy

because of the acrimony sometimes in a

family law matter for parties to really

get uh entrenched in the you know

continued bickering and fighting and I

try to tell people that that time’s kind

of over and they really just need to

take the high road while the case is

going on because uh honestly it’s for

their own mental health and actually

even for the outcome in the case it can

help a lot so just trying to have people

keep things even keeled and try to keep

the emotions leveled and uh try to avoid

uh you know that high conflict that that

often occurs in

cases it was interesting what what

really wound up preparing me for this

practice was that I didn’t anticipate

going into family law I have a finance

background and uh and then uh when I was

in law school I also received my masters

uh from the business school and with the

focus on additional Finance and

Accounting classes um I went to work for

what was one of the big now it’s one of

the big four accounting firms doing

state and local tax Consulting and had

an opportunity to do a lot of tax

compliance work and so it was a natural

fit for me when I came into the to the

family law practice to really start

working on some large complex cases in

the support role for our senior Partners

I was able to look at financials review

tax returns and really kind of dig in uh

which most law students coming out don’t

that’s something they would take years

to learn on the job and I already had

that exposure from my previous education experience