Practice Focus

Domestic Relations, Alternative Dispute Resolution / Mediation

Experience

Judy is the Chair of the Family Law Practice Group. Her practice focuses exclusively on domestic relations issues and includes private mediation, collaborative practice, drafting and review of prenuptial agreements, and complex divorce and post divorce litigation. With over 25 years of experience in the domestic relations area, her approach is innovative, and with her alternative dispute expertise, Judy is resolution oriented. Judy has achieved successful outcomes through settlement as well as through trial in a wide variety of cases involving complex financial issues, large and small business interests, multi-million dollar estates and various financial scenarios.

Practice Areas

• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Domestic Relations
• Litigation

Professional Activities

• Frequent New Hampshire Bar Association CLE Program faculty member in the area of prenuptial and agreements and asset protection
• Certified Marital Mediator
• Trained Collaborative Attorney
• New Hampshire Bar Association Pro Bono case review attorney
Co-Chair, Family Law Section, New Hampshire Bar Association
• Member, Family Division Rules and Policy Group
• Member, International Academy of Collaborative Professionals
• Member, Collaborative Law Alliance of New Hampshire
• Member, American Bar Association Family Law Section
• Member, New Hampshire Bar Association Family Law Section

Honors and Distinctions

• Regularly Cited in The Best Lawyers in America for family law.

Community Involvement

• Girl Scouts of Swift Water Council, Troop Leader
• Board of Directors, New Hampshire Special Olympics
• Two time Past President, The Bedford Bluffs
• Member, 30th Reunion Committee, Colby College, Waterville, Maine
• 30th Reunion Gift Committee, Colby College, Waterville, Maine
• Associate Class Agent, Colby College Class of '78
• Parent's Committee, St. Lawrence University

Bar Admissions

Judy is admitted to practice in the state courts of New Hampshire as well as the Federal Court in New Hampshire.

Education

Colby College, B.A., Economics, 1978; Suffolk University Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1983; Suffolk University Law Review

Publications

Contributing author, “A Practical Guide To Divorce In New Hampshire,” published by MCLE New England, December 2009 (as supplemented in 2011)