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Ms. Hirsch specializes in family law  because she believes it is a chance to use her legal expertise to help individuals in the time of their greatest need. Solid legal counsel regarding a client’s rights and possibilities during this process can ease the mental and emotional strain it entails.. She has practiced family law since 1996. She has extensive experience litigating and negotiating all aspects of family law cases. Trained in mediation and collaborative law as well, she has actively promoted these forms of alternative dispute resolution. While some sharply contested cases must go to court, many other cases can benefit from an alternative procedure that reduces expenses, avoids protracted proceedings, and makes it much likelier to reach a settlement that works in the long term.

Managing Partner of Thyden Gross & Callahan, LLP, a law firm in Chevy Chase, Maryland.  Mediator, collaborative lawyer and arbitrator.  Author or co-author of four books, “File for Divorce in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia”, “Money and Divorce”,“Fathers’ Rights (The Best Interest of Your Child Includes You)” and "Splitxville".  Editor of two blogs, “Maryland Divorce Legal Crier” and “Fathers’ Rights (Not Just Every Other Weekend)”.  Speaker on family law at various seminars and appearances on television and radio.  Selected among top lawyers in Maryland and DC by Super Lawyers Magazine and Washingtonian Magazine, rated “Superb” by and “av” by Martindale-Hubbell.. More You can read more of my life experiences if you want to know how I got here.  I was born in Jefferson City, Missouri, and grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, boyhood home of Mark Twain.  When I was 16, I took a correspondence course and passed a government test to obtain a First Class Radio Telephone Operator License, and got a job as an announcer, news reporter and engineer at my dad’s radio station.I studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Missouri in Columbia, and graduated in 1970 with a BSChE.  Procter & Gamble hired me to work in its International Division in Cincinnati, Ohio.  I was there for about a year when Uncle Sam drafted me for the Viet Nam War.  I spent a year producing television shows for the Signal Corp. at Fort Gordon, Georgia, and another year working on long range patrol rations as a chemical engineer at the U.S. Army Labs in Natick, Massachusetts.When I got out of the army, I went to law school at the University of Missouri in Columbia, where I made the law review and clerked for the Public Defender.  I graduated with a JD in 1975.  The Federal Communications hired me to come to Washington, DC, and work as an attorney in the Broadcast Division.  After two years, Satellite Business Systems, a partnership of IBM, Comsat and Aetna.  During that time, I earned a Master of Laws in Taxation from Georgetown University in 1982.Trammel, Rand, Nathan & Lincoln hired me from Satellite Business Systems after two years, and I set up my own practice a year after that.  I merged that firm into Amram, Hahn & Gross where I was the managing partner and worked on real estate tax appeals.  Whiteford, Taylor and Preston hired me from that firm, and I co-founded Thyden Gross & Callahan, LLP, a year later.I am past president of Metropolitan Washington Mensa and the Collaborative Law Society.  I have served on the Board of Directors of Sheet Metal Manufacturing, Inc., Affiliated Community Counselors, Inc., and the DC Capitols Track and Field Club.  I play racketball and I live in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with my wife, two sons and two cats.

Each family is unique and Renée offers a solution tailored to your particular needs.  Whether you are facing an uncontested divorce, gearing up for a battle over the distribution of marital assets, trying to find constructive solutions to child custody and access, dealing with intra-family violence or searching for a guardian ad litum for your child, Renée delves into the details of your particular issues and helps you choose the right personal and legal strategy to move you successfully to the next stage in your life and the life of your family.. Renée is a magna cum laude graduate of Boston College Law School.  She practiced for 12 years as a patent litigator at two of the best law firms in the country, obtaining top-notch strategy and litigation skills, unparalleled by many family law attorneys.  She has been practicing exclusively in the area of family law for the past 7 years, first at Delaney McKinney, LLP and now at her own firm.. As a family law lawyer, Renée has represented both men and women in high conflict custody cases, litigated custody and child support in DC Superior Court and Montgomery County Circuit Court, participated in the amicable settlement of numerous cases and worked to value businesses and determine the equitable distribution of assets in the millions.  Although not yet ranked in Washingtonian’s top family law lawyers, Renée has taken many of those lawyers on and prevailed.. With her excellent litigation skills, her financial acumen, but most importantly, her empathy for and natural inclination to work on behalf of children and families, is the perfect balance of skills for a family law lawyer.. Renée is also trained in Collaborative Law. She was selected to serve on the D.C. Superior Court’s Council on Child Abuse and Neglect, representing parents and children in neglect cases.  Renée volunteers in the DC Superior Court Family Law Self-Help Center and participates pro bono in the Family Court’s Attorney Negotiator Program, working with pro se litigants to settle their family law matters before they appear before the Court.. Renée’s interest in working on behalf of family and children started in 1989 when she was a teacher in a South Central Los Angeles high school after graduating from college. She worked for and on behalf of children when she handled family law cases at the Legal Assistance Bureau in Boston, Massachusetts, representing low income clients in divorce and custody cases. While building her career as a patent litigator, she continued to serve children in a pro bono capacity.  Renée trained and volunteered as a Court Appointed Special Advocate – a judge-appointed advocate for abused and neglected children in the dependency court system. She taught Constitutional Law seminars at an alternative high school in San Diego, California.  Renée also served as a guardian ad litum in adoption cases.. Renée graduated with a B.A. from the University of Southern California in 1989 and received her J.D., magna cum laude, from Boston College School of Law in 1996. Renée is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia, Maryland and California.  She is a member of the American Bar Association, Family Law Section, the Montgomery County Bar Association, Family Law Section, the District of Columbia Bar, Family Law Section and the International Association of Collaborative Professionals.

Alisa Yasin is a strong champion for her clients. From the first meeting through case resolution, Alisa uses her extensive legal knowledge, creative strategies and vast experience to deliver successful results. As one client observed, “Alisa is professional, thoughtful, strategic, pragmatic, responsive and very experienced in the law and the DC courts. She is also very cognizant of the human impact of the work she does, which I deeply appreciated.”. A shareholder with the Family Law Practice, Alisa handles all areas of family law, including adoption, assisted reproductive technology, child custody, child support, child protective services investigations, and all aspects of divorce matters. While she is a staunch supporter of collaboration to resolve family disputes, Alisa stands ready to fiercely advocate for her clients’ financial, business and personal interests through court intervention when dispute avoidance methods fail. Alisa also draws on her extensive public service background when navigating complex custody cases, including those involving allegations of child abuse and/or neglect, when serving as a passionate advocate for parents and children in crisis.. Clients and colleagues alike have recognized Alisa for her professional, pragmatic and detail-oriented approach to complex cases. In addition to being recognized for her talents by Best Lawyers and Super Lawyers, Alisa has also been retained by prior adverse counsel to assist in their own family disputes.. Alisa has a robust public service background. Before joining a firm to practice Family Law, she was a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Jeanette J. Clark in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia Family Court. Alisa also served as a legal extern for the Office of the Attorney General of the District of Columbia in the Child Protection Section, as well as a law clerk at the Children’s Law Center in the Guardian Ad Litem Project, where she assisted in the disposition of several neglect and abuse cases from intake to the final adjudication.. Receiving her Juris Doctor, With Honors, in 2011 from The George Washington University Law School, Alisa was the President of the G.W. Law Association for Women, the Vice President of Student Affairs of the G.W. Student Bar Association and a student attorney in the G.W. Domestic Violence Project Community Clinic. She also served as a Research Assistant to Professors Naomi Cahn and Catherine Ross working on family and reproductive rights issues, and she was recognized for her work in Naomi Cahn’s article, No Secrets: Openness and Donor-Conceived ‘Half Siblings.’ Alisa received her Bachelor of Arts Summa Cum Laude from Arizona State University in Political Science and Sociology, where she was a Presidential Merit Scholar and Capitol Scholar. She is admitted to practice in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Florida.

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