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Ms. Kelley is an Associate with Nichols Zauzig Sandler and concentrates on family law. She joined the firm after working as a law clerk to the Honorable Craig D. Johnston in Prince William County Circuit Court. Prior to that time, she was a paralegal for a large international law firm, in the Washington, D.C. office.. Ms. Kelley received her law degree from the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University. During law school, Ms. Kelley gained extensive experience in family law as a student attorney with the Columbus Community Legal Services Families and Law Clinic, providing free, high-quality legal services to needy families who live in the District of Columbia metropolitan area and would otherwise go unrepresented.. Ms. Kelley served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Jennifer Anderson in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. She also worked as a legal clerk to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the United States House of Representatives.. During law school, Ms. Kelley served as an Associate Editor of the Catholic Law Review and as a member of the Student Bar Association’s Professional Conduct Council.

I am currently an associate at  Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer as a member of the family team. Prior to entering private practice I served as a law clerk to the Honorable Teresa Kondrup Coyle, at the Monmouth County Superior Court, Family Division. I am certified in Mediation and Conciliation Skills and am trained in Collaborative Law. I am also a member of the Monmouth Ocean Inns of Court, Family Division, Monmouth County Young Lawyers and the New Jersey and Monmouth County Bar Associations. I serve on the Family Law Executive Committee for the State Bar, sit on the Executive Family Law Committe in Monmouth County and am a member of the Middlesex County's Assignment Judge's Committee. I am the current co-chair of the family section of the Haydn Proctor Inns of Court. I am admitted to practice in New Jersey and Maryland.. I was born and  raised in Monmouth County. I'm a graduate of The George Washington University, and of the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. Throughout her time in law school, she was very active in The Columbus Community Legal Services, Family Law Clinic, providing pro bono services to women of domestic violence in custody and divorce cases and successfully represented a client in a contested custody case. I was a participant in Catholic’s National Trial Team, where I traveled around the country participating in mock trial competitions. This gave me the opportunity to prepare opening and closing statements, direct and cross examinations, and become intimately familiar with court procedure. I was awarded Best Overall Advocate in May of 2010 at the Capital City Challenge in Washington, D.C.

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