06/20/2023
FOURTH YEAR IN A ROW!! It is an incredible honor to be named one of the Top Adoption Attorneys from 405 Magazine for a fourth year in a row. In addition to my typical practice of representing adoptive families, this year I also focused on representing birth mothers and let me tell you it was memorable.
Representing birth mothers for me looks different than just doing the legal work, sometimes its holding onto a birth mother's hand during her epidural when she has no one else, sometimes its sitting in her hospital room for hours just talking about life, sometimes its holding her while she sobs, sometimes its checking in on her well after the adoption, and sometimes its staying up late at night and thinking about her and praying that she is doing okay. The stories these mothers told me this year brought a completely new perspective to my practice and have given me such a better insight to practice adoption law. To my birth mothers, I am thankful for our time together and thankful for the treasured blessing you carried.
Representing adoptive families has been something I have done for almost ten years now. I have the sweetest memories over those ten years but looking back at this past 12 months there are just some of the most precious babies and children that I have ever worked with. I had a couple trials, argued several big issues, but some of my favorite memories this past year were looking at my clients' faces at adoption finalization days - there are no words that can even come close to describing the feelings and emotions.
Well, I guess after the FOURTH year, you have to get a little emotional in the thank you. Truly a big thank you to my collogues that year after year vote my adoption practice as worthy of being recognized.
And, to all of my collogues on this list CONGRATULATIONS! There are so many phenomenal names on this list that deserve recognition. Friends, check out this list and use it when you are selecting an attorney.