| Biography | Recipient: 2011 Pennsylvania Bar Association Special Achievement Award for contributions and work to enact new custody legislation; Super Lawyers Rising Stars, Philadelphia Magazine and Law and Politics Magazine, 2006 - present; Lawyers On The Fast Track, The Legal Intelligencer and Pennsylvania Law Weekly, 2007; American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyer's Eric D. Turner Award, Temple University School of Law. Chair Elect, Family Law Section of Philadelphia Bar Association; Co-Chair, Custody Committee, Philadelphia Bar Association, Family Law Section. Former Treasurer and Secretarty, Family Law Section of Philadelphia Bar Association; Past Member, Executive Committee, Philadelphia Bar Association, Family Law Section. PBA Family Law Section: Member, Legislative Committee and Procedural Rules Committee; Past Member: Executive Committee, Council, Program Committee (Former Co-Chair). Member: Doris Jonas Freed American Inn of Court, and the Nicholas J. Cipriani Family Law American Inn of Court. Course Planner and Moderator, recurring Pennsylvania Bar Institute seminar titled "Family Law in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, & Montgomery Counties". Columnist, The Legal Intelligencer, Family Law practice column. Author: co-wrote the book on Pennsylvania child custody law titled: PENNSYLVANIA CHILD CUSTODY LAW, PRACTICE, AND PROCEDURE. Author: articles appearing in The Philadelphia Lawyer; Pennsylvania Family Lawyer; American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers course materials, Pennsylvania Bar Association Family Law Section course materials, Pennsylvania Bar Institute; author, Case Note Articles, PBA Pennsylvania Family Lawyer Magazine. Speaker: program on the appellate child custody cases decided since the enactment of the new custody statute, the proposed rules of civil procedure regarding custody, and the steps that Philadelphia County Family Court has taken to implement the new custody statute to the Family Law Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association (January 9, 2012); "Age Appropriate Custody Schedules" (December 13, 2011); Seminar on civility in the practice of family law, Doris Jonas Freed American Inn Of Court (October 11, 2011 meeting ); Lectured on the practice of family law at the inaugural Family Law Society meeting at Temple University Beasley School of Law (October 4, 2011); "Introduction to Pennsylvania's New Child Custody Law and Parenting Plans," Pennsylvania Bar Institute's 6th Annual Family Law Institute, Philadelphia, PA (April 13, 2011); Lectured on the new custody laws effective January 24, 2011 on a Pennsylvania Bar Institute webinar (December 21, 2010) and to the Family Law Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association (January 10, 2011); Lectured on the Children and Family Law Panel sponsored by the Child Advocacy Law Association and Family Law Society at Villanova University Law School (April 6, 2010); Moderated program: "Age Appropriate Custody Orders" (March 12, 2010); Presented "A Year In Review: Custody Issues of 2009,"Philadelphia Bar Association, Family Law Section (February 2010 Meeting); Co-presented a program on Custody Evaluations at the meeting of the Nicholas J. Cipriani Family Law American Inn of Court (February 3, 2009); Co-presented a "hot topics" program at a joint Inn of Court meeting (March 2, 2010); Guest lectured at Penn State Abington for an Applied Social Psychology class addressing the interplay between Family Law and Social Psychology. (October 29, 2009); "A Year In Review: Custody Issues of 2008" at the Philadelphia Bar Association, Family Law Section January 2009 Meeting; Ethics seminar at the November 5, 2008 meeting of the Nicholas J. Cipriani Family Law American Inn of Court; "A Look Inside: 3 Experts Discuss the Rorschach Test, Bricklin Test, and the MMPI," held on September 25, 2008; "E-Discovery" at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's 3rd Annual Family Law Institute in Philadelphia, PA on April 10, 2008; "A Year In Review: Custody Issues of 2007" at the Philadelphia Bar Association, Family Law Section February 2008 Meeting; "Financial Discovery & Disclosure: The Importance of Gathering and Recording Financial Information for Divorce Settlements and Equitable Distribution" at the Philadelphia Association of Paralegals Education Conference in Philadelphia, PA on October 5, 2007; "Direct and Cross Examination of a Custody Evaluator" at the October 3, 2007 meeting of the Nicholas J. Cipriani Family Law American Inn of Court; "Prepping Your Client for Their Custody Evaluation" at the Pennsylvania Bar Association Family Law Section 2007 Summer Meeting in Cambridge, MD; "Divorce Potpourri" program at the January 2007 Doris Jonas Freed American Inn Of Court meeting; "The Hottest Custody Issues in 2006" at the Philadelphia Bar Association, Family Law Section January 2007 Meeting; a custody lecture in September, 2006 at the Lucien E. Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional Library; "The Fine Points of Custody Relocation and the Differences between the UCCJA and the UCCJEA" at the Philadelphia Bar Association, Family Law Section May 2006 Meeting; "Emotional Distress Torts" at the Domestic Torts Seminar, at the joint October 2005 Inn of Court Meeting; the Child Custody Relocation Case Law Update at the Philadelphia Bar Association, Family Law Section May 2005 Meeting; "Analyzing your Potential Relocation Case" at the Pennsylvania Bar Association's 2003 Family Law Potpourri in Philadelphia, PA; moderated the Case Law Updates at the Pennsylvania Bar Association Family Law Section 2006 Winter Meeting in Pittsburgh, and 2003 Summer Meeting in Philadelphia; presented and authored the Child Custody Law Updates at the Pennsylvania Bar Association Family Law Section 2002 Winter Meeting in Philadelphia, PA., and 2001 Summer Meeting in Washington, D.C. Volunteer Attorney: Philadelphia VIP (Volunteers for the Indigent Program); Legal Clinic for the Disabled, INC. |