“Discourage litigation. Persuade neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out how the nominal winner is often the real loser in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker, the lawyer has a superior opportunity of becoming a good man.”

- Abraham Lincoln

Welcome

As a collaborative lawyer and settlement advocate, I help couples divorce intelligently and creatively, considerate of one another and of their children.

After more than twenty years as an attorney, my practice is now limited to collaborative law and settlement advocacy. I believe that the public should be given the opportunity to choose a process for resolving their differences that honors their participation and trusts their ability to make the best decisions for their families. Our Rochester community is blessed with a compassionate and dedicated group of family law attorneys, mental health professionals, mediators and financial specialists working together to help families as parents separate and divorce. I was the first president of the Association of Collaborative Family Law Attorneys, Inc. (www.nycollaborativelaw.com) and continue to be involved as an active member.