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Experienced and compassionate attorney empowering clients to creatively resolve family conflict.. Wendy is dedicated to empowering clients to make the best decisions they can as they navigate through the emotional, financial, and legal aspects of a divorce. She is a certified collaborative divorce attorney and mediator in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She focuses solely in out of court processes for divorce, including negotiated settlements, uncontested divorce, mediation, and Collaborative divorce. Through these divorce processes, she helps her clients made the best decisions for their family in areas such as custody, parenting time, child support, spousal support, and asset and debt division. She also assists her clients with prenuptial agreements, or agreements regarding property prior to getting married.. Wendy is very passionate about her clients and is dedicated to educating clients about issues that involve the family. She has posted regularly on her Michigan Family Law blog and AVVO. She has been a guest columnist in local newspapers, including the Northville Record. Wendy has been interviewed on family law issues by ABC News and print media, including the Detroit News.. In 2009 Wendy was certified as a Divorce and Custody Mediator after rigorous training at the Mediation Training and Consultation Institute. Wendy was certified as a Collaborative Divorce Attorney after completion of the Collaborative Divorce Basic Training in 2020. She completed Advanced Mediation and Collaborative Training in 2012, 2020 and 2023. She achieved the Family Law Certificate from the Institute of Continuing Legal Education in 2022. She completed her Domestic Violence Screening Protocol Training in 2009.. Wendy has been awarded a Michigan Super Lawyers Rising Star designation, demonstrating a high degree of professional achievement and peer recognition. Each year, no more than 2.5% of the lawyers in Michigan receive this prestigious designation.. Wendy earned her law degree, Juris Doctor, from Wayne State University Law School in 2002. She is a proud alumnus of the University of Michigan-Dearborn and graduated in 1998 with her Bachelor of Arts degree.

Areas of practice: Serious personal injury and wrongful death, medical malpractice, serious automobile litigation, and birth trauma. Ms. Salter-Ferris graduated from John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois in 1983 and has limited her practice to serious injury law ever since. She began her legal career at a prestigious Chicago law firm before relocating to Ann Arbor in 1988.. She is a past president of the Washtenaw Trial Lawyers Association, and is a former executive board member of the Michigan Trial Lawyers Association. She is the recipient of WTLA's "Attorney of the Year" award.. Ms. Salter-Ferris is the author of "The 1993 Michigan Medical Malpractice Act Tort Reform Book". She has also served as an author on small law firm practice and lecturer on trial practice issues for the Institute for Continuing Legal Education. She currently serves on ICLE's Civil Litigation Advisory Board.. Ms. Salter-Ferris has served as a Washtenaw County Bar Association board member, and has co-chaired its Judiciary Committee. She created and served for two years as host of WCBA's "The Legal Forum", a monthly cable television program.. She is a member of the Woman Lawyer's Association of Michigan, and received the WLAM Washtenaw Region's Pro Bono award.. Ms. Salter-Ferris has been handling major personal injury cases throughout her experience as a trial lawyer, and is the author of several articles and book chapters on personal injury law. She is listed in "Who's Who in American Law," is a member of "The Million Dollar Advocates Forum" and is listed in "The Best Lawyers in America."