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I’ve been standing up for people since I was a kid. Long before I became a family law attorney, I knew what it felt like to chase down what was right—even if it meant a showdown with the neighborhood bully.
Now, as a seasoned lawyer and mediator, I’m committed to bringing clarity, calm, and fairness to my clients’ lives when they need it most. Family law isn’t just my profession; it’s my way of making a difference.
It was a humid summer day in suburban New Jersey in 1973. I was ten years old. Corey Silverman (not his real name) had just stolen my little brother’s new bicycle. Right in front of our faces, and just because he could.
My brother, a skinny, shy kid, was a year younger than me, and terrified of Corey. He’d just gotten the bicycle – purple sparkles, with a banana seat – for his birthday. He was ashamed and started to cry.
I jumped on my bicycle and rode after Corey. Because I was a girl, he taunted me. “Oooooh, look at the big Sister!” As I pedaled faster after him, so did he. When he got to his house he dumped the bicycle on his lawn and scurried inside. I parked my own bicycle beside a tree, picked up the purple bicycle, and rode it home. Corey wouldn’t want my bicycle. It was a “girl’s bicycle,” after all.
My brother recently recounted the bicycle rescue story at a family gathering. It reminded me why I became a lawyer.
While I have not made it a practice of repossessing bicycles in my legal career, I’ve had quite a path. I paid my dues at a Big Law firm, doing complex, high stakes civil litigation; wrote bills and advised New Jersey state legislators. I worked pro bono for my son’s school district, and had declared unconstitutional a public school funding formula that would have hurt public schools. Representing litigants in freedom of religion and free speech cases are some of my other proudest moments.
My focus on family law and mediation started 17 years ago, the same time I started practicing yoga and meditation. It’s not a coincidence: just as I want to cultivate calm, focus and ease for myself, I want to bring the same to clients’ family lives. It’s my way of reducing suffering in the world.
I want to help people through the worst times in their lives, using compassionate methods to help them change relationships and restructure their families.
In 2005 I helped a client prevent her husband from absconding with their daughter to Japan. The feeling of accomplishment after that case sealed the deal for me – I had to focus on family law.
Ever since then, I’ve been updating my toolbox of skills, always learning and growing – to make sure your case is handled the right way.
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