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Top 100 Attorney in Maryland --- I am ranked as one of the Top 100 Attorneys in Maryland (in all practice areas), the highest honor from Maryland SuperLawyers, and our Law Office was voted the Best Divorce Law Office in Howard County by Baltimore/Howard Magazine.. My Office offers affordable resolution to your Alimony/Spousal Support, Property Allocation, Separation Agreements, Business Valuation and Asset Protection, Collaborative Divorce, Child Support, Custody/Access, Grandparent Access, Domestic Violence, Adoption, and Litigation cases. We handle clients and situations at all income levels. We are very successful at protecting business interests and getting our client fair alimony amounts over longer durations or protecting our client from unreasonable alimony and property demands.. I concentrate my practice in divorce/family law in central Maryland.  My philosophy emphasizes practical solutions that minimize the financial and emotional cost to the client and the client's family, business interests, and personal/professional standing in the community.  I am also a mediator and a collaborative divorce practitioner, holding basic and advanced training certifications.  I am a strong advocate for the collaborative process and I would be happy to explain the process and how it could benefit your family.. I serve the Court as a court-appointed Attorney for Children in various capacities, including service as a Best Interests Attorney.  I also serve as a mediator/facilitator at Settlement Conferences in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City and volunteer at the Family Law Assistance Project in the Circuit Court for Howard County.  These honors demonstrate better than anything that I am respected by the Judges of the Court. By working hard to get my clients fair resolutions I satisfy my clients and continue to earn the respect of the Bench and fellow attorneys. I am most proud of all of the great results I helped get for my clients and the dozens of client reviews that demonstrate their satisfaction and appreciation.  I do this job to help good people in bad situations -  that is what drives me and that is the reason should you meet with me and hire me and/or my office.

Stan Lacy co-founded Collins & Lacy in 1984, and he practices in the area of workers’ compensation.  Stan graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in Aerospace Engineering in 1967. While at the University of Virginia, he served as President of the Engineering School, President of Sigma Pi Fraternity and was a member of the Trigon Society.  He then served four years in the United States Air Force, becoming a captain, where he was awarded the Air Force Commendation Medal for the work he did on the Vietnamization of the war in Southeast Asia.  He also received the Vietnam Service Medal and the National Defense Ribbon. He earned his law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1974 and was admitted to practice in South Carolina during the same year.  He began teaching workers’ compensation as an adjunct instructor at the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1981 and has continued to teach ever since. He also frequently conducts workshops on compensation laws.. Former S.C. Governor Carroll Campbell appointed Stan to the Advisory Committee for the Improvement of Workers' Compensation Laws in South Carolina, where he worked with the legislature to review and revise legislation affecting the state’s workers' compensation system. He is considered one of South Carolina’s pre-eminent attorneys according to peers and Martindale-Hubbell and also was selected by his peers to be included in The Best Lawyers in America, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. Best Lawyers has also named Stan as the “Columbia, SC Best Lawyers Workers' Compensation Law - Employers Lawyer of the Year” for 2012. The “Lawyers of the Year” is a designation awarded within high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.”

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I help families who want to address challenges and transitions fairly, peaceably, cost effectively, and in ways that result in sustainable, workable, long term solutions.  The families who are attracted to my services are those who want to achieve fair and sustainable results, and who wish to do so without treating each other as enemies or adversaries.. I have been licensed as an attorney since 1984 and practicing non-adversarial family and elder law and mediation since 2009.  My training in mediation includes study with nationally recognized mediators such as Carl Schneider, Richard Blackburn, and Zena Zumeta.  I am a member of the family and elder sections of the Association for Conflict Resolution.

A graduate of Ohio State University, with honors, and Georgetown University Law Center, Juris Doctor, Ms. Weinberg was a staff member of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics and participated in clinical studies. Ms. Weinberg was elected as Co-President of the Maryland Collaborative Practice Group, the statewide umbrella collaborative organization. She was the founding President of the Howard County Collaborative Professional group, and is a past member of the Maryland State Bar Association Family and Juvenile Law Section Council. Jolie is the current chair of the Alternative Dispute Resolution for the Maryland State Bar Association.Ms. Weinberg has presented parenting seminars for the National Family Resiliency Center, Inc. (NFRC) in Columbia, Maryland, the Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers, Inc., a speaker’s bureau for Maryland attorneys and various other organizations including Johns Hopkins University - APL, University of Maryland Law School and various business organizations. Ms. Weinberg is past President of the Maryland State Women’s Bar Association. She is also a member of the Maryland Judicial Nominating Commission. Jolie Weinberg was named a Maryland Super Lawyer and Top Attorney in Maryland by Baltimore Magazine in 2010-2019.  Additionally, in 2013-2019, Jolie was named one of the Top 50 Women Attorneys in Maryland by Baltimore Magazine.  Also, Ms. Weinberg has been named a top 100 attorney in the State of Maryland since 2015-2019.  She was recently interviewed on CNN for a previous case and won an importantly case before the Court of Special Appeals in Fall, 2019.

Experienced Mediation attorney serving clients in Columbia and surrounding areas.

Experienced Mediation attorney serving clients in Columbia and surrounding areas.

Experienced Mediation attorney serving clients in Columbia and surrounding areas.

Experienced Mediation attorney serving clients in Columbia and surrounding areas.

Experienced Mediation attorney serving clients in Columbia and surrounding areas.

Experienced Mediation attorney serving clients in Columbia and surrounding areas.

Experienced Mediation attorney serving clients in Columbia and surrounding areas.

Experienced Mediation attorney serving clients in Columbia and surrounding areas.

Experienced Mediation attorney serving clients in Columbia and surrounding areas.

Experienced Mediation attorney serving clients in Columbia and surrounding areas.

Experienced Mediation attorney serving clients in Columbia and surrounding areas.

Experienced Mediation attorney serving clients in Columbia and surrounding areas.

Experienced Mediation attorney serving clients in Columbia and surrounding areas.

Experienced Mediation attorney serving clients in Columbia and surrounding areas.

Experienced Mediation attorney serving clients in Columbia and surrounding areas.