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Pamela M. Magnano practices divorce and family law, representing clients in divorces, legal separations, support issues and child custody matters in both Connecticut and Massachusetts. Attorney Magnano has represented clients and children at all levels of family proceedings and has appeared in Family Courts throughout the state of Connecticut, including the Regional Family Trial Docket in Middletown.. Attorney Magnano has been selected for inclusion in Connecitcut Super Lawyers in every year since 2014. Super Lawyers is a rating service of lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process is multi-phased and includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations. Attorney Magnano was also selected to New England Rising Stars in 2010, 2011, 2012 & 2013. Pam continues to be recognized by Martindale-Hubbell with an AV Preeminent rating for ethical standards and legal ability. In 2013, Attorney Magnano was selected to New Leaders In The Law by the Connecticut Law Tribune. Out of 300 of the best and brightest nominees, Pam was one of 60 attorneys to receive the honor. In 2022, Attorney Magnano was elected Fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation (CBF) James W. Cooper Fellows Program. Fellows are nominated by their peers based on their outstanding service to the profession and larger community and are elected by the CBF Board of Directors.. Attorney Magnano currently practices divorce and family law with Attorneys Sandi Girolamo and Jenna Hyler at Flaherty Legal Group in West Hartford, Connecticut. Prior to practicing law in Connecticut, she was one of four attorneys in a prominent law firm in Braintree, Massachusetts, where she practiced family law and represented clients in numerous courts throughout the state of Massachusetts including Family and Probate Court, Civil Court and Criminal Court.. Attorney Magnano began her courtroom experience as a student prosecutor in law school where she prosecuted all levels of crimes from Arraignments to Trials. She graduated from Stetson University in Florida and then received her Juris Doctor at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, where she earned a place on the Dean's List.. Attorney Magnano is a member of the Connecticut Bar Association, Massachusetts Bar Association, the Hartford County Bar Association, and the American Bar Association. Attorney Magnano served as the Co-Chair for the Family Law Committee of the Young Lawyers Section of the Connecticut Bar Association from 2006-2009. In this position, Attorney Magnano co-chaired several seminars on family law topics. Each of these seminars featured some of Connecticut's most prominent family law attorneys and most well-respected judges.. Attorney Magnano serves as a Special Master in the Tolland and Hartford Judicial Districts. To ensure that she is up to date on all of the recent developments in her practice area, Attorney Magnano attends several Continuing Legal Education Courses each year. In addition to this training, Attorney Magnano has knowledge of all of the computer software needed to be efficient in the field of family law, including FinPlan, Family Law Software, Westlaw, and LexisNexis.. Beginning in law school and continuing throughout her career, Attorney Magnano has been involved in several charitable events and organizations. While in law school, she volunteered with Shelter Legal Services, an organization located outside of Boston, Massachusetts, which provided legal representation to individuals in local shelters. Through this experience, Attorney Magnano was able to help battered women with housing issues, domestic violence issues and family law issues. Since becoming a member of the bar, Attorney Magnano has continued to give back to the community and sits on the Board of Directors for the Children's Law Center of Connecticut.

Meghan practices divorce and family law at Freed Marcroft.  She is committed to alternative dispute resolution, and has supplemented her formal legal education with advanced training in collaborative law and mediation as well as through Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation.. In 2013, Meghan was named a Hartford Business Journal 40 Under Forty winner, and a Connecticut Law Tribune New Leader of the Law. She was included on the New England Super Lawyers® Rising Star list in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 for family law.  In 2014 the Connecticut Women’s Education and Legal Fund (CWEALF) named her one of 40 Women for the Next 40 Years.  Her law firm was voted “Best Law Firm” by the readers of Hartford Magazine in 2015, 2016, and 2017, and in 2016 received a Family Business Award from the Hartford Business Journal.. Meghan is also particularly proud of her practice within the LGBT community.  Her name appears in the Connecticut Supreme Court’s groundbreaking decision on marriage equality, Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health, for which she co-authored an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the Human Rights Campaign.  Meghan has appeared on WNPR’s Colin McEnroe Show speaking about the state of divorce – same sex or otherwise – and WNPR’s Where We Live, discussing the impact of the United States Supreme Court’s decisions in the same sex marriage cases, United States v. Windsor and Hollingsworth v. Perry.  She frequently speaks on the legal issues facing same sex couples, including for the Connecticut Bar Association’s annual Connecticut Legal Conference, the New York Times, and to the employees of various Fortune 500 companies.  She is a founding executive board member of the Connecticut Bar Association’s LGBT Section and currently serves as its Chair.  In 2015 the National LGBT Bar Association named her one of the nation’s Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40.. Meghan attended Mount Holyoke College, and received her law degree cum laude from the Western New England College School of Law, where she served as the Managing Editor of the Western New England Law Review, and received the highest distinction conferred by the Law School, the Norman Prance Award.  Earlier in her career, Meghan was associated with the firms of Shipman & Goodwin and Bingham McCutchen, and later served as Counsel to the Hartford Steam Boiler.. Meghan is a proud supporter of the arts in Hartford, and devotes the majority of her pro bono legal work to LGBT and arts organizations.  She serves as a Director of the Hartford Country Bar Association, is Chair of the Board of Corporators of the iQuilt Project, and is a member of the Board of Ambassadors for the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

Nicole C. Bikakis handles Family Law matters for the firm, with a particular focus on high asset and high-income divorce cases and custody disputes. Attorney Bikakis joins Dolan Divorce Lawyers after working as an associate attorney at Saxe, Doernberger & Vita, P.C., in Trumbull Connecticut. In 2016, 2017 and 2018, Attorney Bikakis was selected as a New England Super Lawyers Rising Star in the area of Insurance Law.. Attorney Bikakis is a Connecticut native, but grew up in Athens, Greece before returning to Connecticut to obtain a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Connecticut, from which she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Attorney Bikakis subsequently received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Connecticut School of Law, where she was the Executive Editor of the Connecticut Journal of International Law. During law school, Attorney Bikakis also interned for the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, and at a law firm in Stamford, Connecticut focused on commercial law.. After graduating from law school, Attorney Bikakis served as a clerk in the Civil Division of the Connecticut Superior Court, where she gained valuable experience and contacts working on family cases and other civil matters. She then moved to Saxe, Doernberger & Vita, P.C., in 2014, before joining Dolan Divorce Lawyers in 2018.

Kathleen E. Scelfo joined Budlong & Budlong in 2014. She focuses her practice on family law, representing clients in all aspects of dissolution of marriage and custody actions, including property division, alimony, child support, visitation, relocation, and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements.. Attorney Scelfo received her Juris Doctorate from Western New England University School of Law, and is licensed to practice before Connecticut’s state courts, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.. Prior to joining Budlong & Budlong, she served as a legal research clerk to the judges of the Superior Court in Hartford and Tolland. Throughout law school, Attorney Scelfo worked as a law clerk at a civil litigation firm in West Hartford, and served as a certified legal intern at the State’s Attorney’s office in the Tolland Judicial District.. She is a member of the Connecticut Bar Association, Hartford County Bar Association, and the Western New England University School of Law Alumni Association.

Carla is an attorney with Louden, Katz & McGrath, LLC. She focuses her practice on family law and divorce.. Carla is a passionate advocate, who has been litigating for a majority of her legal career. Prior to focusing specifically on family law, Carla spent a number of years as an attorney for the Connecticut Office of Child Advocacy, where she would represent children in abuse and neglect cases. As a mother of two, advocating for the welfare of children has always been and will always be a top priority for the spirit of Carla's legal practice.. Carla understands first-hand the benefits that alternative processes like collaborative law and mediation can have for children and families. In addition to her marital and family litigation practice, Carla is a committed collaborative divorce attorney.

Brandy Thomas is an attorney with Freed Marcroft, LLC. She focuses her practice on family law including divorce and child custody, adoption and mediation.. After working in New York City law firms throughout her undergraduate years at Fordham, Brandy headed to law school and focused about 75% of her studies on divorce, family law, and representing children.. It is no surprise that Brandy has spent the better part of a decade focusing the majority of her law practice on divorce and family law, advocating for clients in Trial Courts throughout Connecticut all the way up to the Appellate Court. Brandy is also an accomplished divorce mediator.. Brandy finds deep meaning in guiding our clients through what is often one of the most challenging times in their lives and helping them find happiness on the other side. One of her greatest honors is empowering clients to realize that they are strong enough to handle the divorce process, and that they and their children can and will thrive in the future.

Ashley began her legal career as a law clerk with Louden, Katz & McGrath, assisting the partners with client cases right after graduating law school.

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Rhiannon M. Jordan, Esq., is an aggressive and enthusiastic courtroom competitor. She possesses a degree in Business Administration from Campbell University and a law degree from Regent University. She is admitted to practice in all Virginia State Courts as well as the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. She is a member of the Virginia Beach, Norfolk, and Portsmouth Bar Associations. Rhiannon is a life long runner and athlete. Rhiannon enjoys the challenges associated with the practice of law and takes pride in vigorously representing her clients in defamation, sexual harassment, legal malpractice, criminal, traffic, divorce, custody, visitation, support, and other types of cases. Rhiannon brings gusto and determination to every matter and has made her mark in difficult defamation, domestic, and criminal cases.

Areas of Practice: Family Law, Separation/Divorce, Custody, and Personal InjuryProfessional Associations and Memberships: Virginia State Bar, Virginia State Bar, Member Norfolk Portsmouth Bar Association, Member Norfolk City Council Drug Advisory Committee, Member Old Dominion Intercollegiate Foundation, President The Virginia Club, President Co-founder & President of the Norfolk Free Clinic Commissioner in Chancery for the Circuit Court of the City of Norfolk Since graduating from law school in 1970, I have practiced in the Hampton Roads area primarily in civil litigation with an emphasis on family and personal injury law. I have successfully appealed cases to the Circuit Court of Appeals of Virginia, The Virginia Supreme Court, and The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.. I played basketball for Old Dominion University & paid all costs of my education. I attended law school on a scholarship.

I have been practicing primarily Family Law (Divorce, Spousal Support, Child Support, Custody & Visitation) and Criminal Defense in my 10+ years of practice.

Marcus Greene is a Principal with Roop Xanttopoulos Babounakis & Klam, PLLC, focusing on the practice of family law in Northern Virginia. His practice covers every type of family law matter in Virginia, including divorce, custody, visitation, and support.. Mr. Greene is born and raised in Virginia, and graduated from James Madison University (Economics) and Washington and Lee University School of Law. Mr. Greene was certified as a mediator prior to attending law school.. Mr. Greene began his legal career spending five years in criminal prosecution, working first in Arlington County, Virginia, and then serving as an Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney for Fairfax County, Virginia. Mr. Greene’s practice focused on victims of violent crime, as he was specially selected to be part of the team focused on sexual assault cases. Mr. Greene gained extensive expertise in trial preparation and advocacy, appearing almost daily in the largest jurisdiction in the state.. Mr. Greene joined RXBK in December, 2020, where he brings his unique blend of financial knowledge, evidentiary expertise, and empathy to his client in and out of the courtroom. He became a Principal in January, 2025.