Dissecting the Stigma of Family Law: An Interview with Jim Korman

Arlington, VA—Over forty years of practicing law have given divorce attorney Jim Korman a unique perspective on trends in marriage and divorce. “Years ago, there was a stigma attached to divorce cases,” Korman recalled in a recent interview with laws-info.com.  “There is far less of one, now.  Another ...

Evolving Field of Family Law Leads to New Players in a Changing Society

Washington, DC—When she started out the legal profession in the 1980s, Leslie Weber Hoffman was assigned family law cases because no one else at her firm wanted to handle them.  “I was assigned the cases because I was the woman attorney and the newest,” she recalled in a recent interview with laws-info.com. Soon ...

Top Notch Divorce Attorney Speaks Of Changing Times and Idealism

Alexandria, VA—While today's law school classes often graduate more women than men, when Ilona Grenadier got her start in 1967, women lawyers were much rarer. “Because I was the only woman in my law firm, they gave me all the domestic cases,” Grenadier recalled of her first job in a recent interview with laws-info ...

One of the Best in the Business Details His Work in International and Domestic Divorce

Washington, DC—Patrick McConnell, named one of the DC area's best divorce attorneys, as well as one of the best in America, has been working exclusively on family law cases for over 25 years.  But his phenomenally successful quarter century in divorce law started out not because he was inspired by famous attorneys, but because ...

Tackling Same-Sex Marriages in a New Era

New York, NY—Steve Mandel, founder of The Mandel Law Firm in Midtown Manhattan, says that for him, a career in divorce law started with doing the impossible.  “My first client, 32 years ago,” he said in a recent interview withlaws-info.com, “was a man who wanted a divorce, but he also wanted custody of his three ...

Family Law Attorney Talks Love, Marriage, and Divorce

Santa Barbara, CA—For Frederick (“Rick”) Montgomery, who has spent 42 years working in law, inspiration came early.  “I was in the 8th grade,” he told laws-info.com in a recent interview, “and asked my father's attorney, to come and speak to my class about the practice of law.  He was so ...

Taking on the change: Robert S. Kaufman's foray into Family Law

Los Angeles, CA—When he started out as an attorney in 1963, 4, Robert S. Kaufman had no idea that he'd end up becoming a prominent divorce lawyer and develop a practice with an A list of clients from celebrities, to industry titans, both nationally and internationally.  In fact, he began doing divorce cases ...

Guiding clients through the gauntlet: Raoul Felder's take on Divorce law

New York, NY—Raoul Felder knew he wanted to be a professional from an early age, but it took him some time to decide on just what kind of professional he wanted to be.  “I have tried studying medicine, and didn't like it,” he explained in a recent interview with laws.com.  “I would have hated to be ...

In A City Grounded In Law, One Rises Above The Rest.

Washington, DC—In a city where fully ten percent of adult residents are attorneys, being top dog takes dedication and almost unimaginable talent.  Sanford Ain was named Washington's #1 divorce attorney by Washingtonian magazine, and is considered among the top lawyers in the entire country in the family law field. Ain ...

After 25 Years, Family Law Practitioner Still Finds Love For the Complexity of Divorce.

San Diego, CA—After working on over 100 trials involving everything from construction law to personal injury, Gerald McMahon says he still thinks of family law cases as being some of the most challenging and rewarding cases an attorney can work on. McMahon, who is Chairman of the Board and head of the Litigation Department at ...

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