Practice Focus

Domestic Relations, Alternative Dispute Resolution

Experience

Judy is the Chair of the Family Law Practice Group. Her practice focuses exlusively on domestic relations issues and includes private mediation, prenuptial agreements, complex divorce and post divorce litigation, and legal separation. With 20 years' experience in the domesitc relations area, her approach is innovative and resolution oriented. Judy is a Certified Marital Mediator and is a member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. She 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 complicated financial scenarios.

Practice Areas

• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Domestic Relations
• Litigation

Professional Activities

• New Hampshire Bar Association's CLE Program faculty member, most recently serving as faculty at the May, 2007 CLE on Asset Protection, also the 2006 CLE on Preparation and Presentation of Evidence in Divorce Trials; and at the 2004 CLE on Prenuptial Agreements - Drafting and Litigation
• Certified Marital Mediator
• New Hampshire Bar Association Pro Bono case review attorney
• Member, Executive Committee, Family Law Section, New Hampshire Bar Association
• Member, New Hampshire Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section
• Member, New Hampshire Women's Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association Family Law Section
• Member, American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section
• Member, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts

Community Involvement

• Girl Scouts of Swift Water Council, Troop Leader
• Board of Directors, New Hampshire Special Olympics and Bedford Babe Ruth
• 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

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