With all the cataclysmic forces in the world today, I have been trying to see the smaller things that I can be grateful for. And in November, which is often a month when we stop to focus on gratitude, I want to enumerate all the things I am grateful for, in work and...
Year: 2024 Articles
How I Built the Confidence to Lead a Family Law Firm
Sometimes, despite nearly a dozen years of leading Transitions Legal, I like to look back on my legal career and reflect on how I gathered the confidence and the courage to go out on my own. It was a gradual process, where I went from being an associate attorney in...
Healthy, Wealthy & Wise – Caffeinated Conversations with Brooke Allen
Can Politics Break a Marriage?
With the United States rapidly approaching a fraught presidential election, I’ve been wondering whether political differences can end a marriage. In all my years of practicing Family Law, I’ve never had someone come to me and say that the only reason they’re divorcing...
The New Skills in My Family Law Toolbox
I love learning, honing my skills as a Collaboratively trained family law attorney and mediator, and bringing new skills to the table! In 2024 thus far, I’ve continued to learn more about the Insight Approach to Conflict Resolution, as a curious mediator, diving...
Learning the Insight Approach to Conflict Resolution
The training to learn the Insight Approach to conflict resolution is long and involved and I’ll be honest, it’s been the most challenging skill-building for me in my entire legal career. So why do I do it? Because this approach makes me better as a Mediator, as a...






