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Christine C. Cockerill grew up in the nearby community of Wallingford, Pennsylvania and has been a resident of Gloucester County for the past 23 years. Her husband, Stephen, is a lifelong resident of Barnsboro, New Jersey.. After graduating with honors from Villanova University in 1990, Ms. Cockerill pursued her law degree at Villanova University School of Law. Ms. Cockerill served as summer law clerk in 1991 in the Federal Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to the Honorable Charles Weiner. As a third-year law student, Ms. Cockerill was certified by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to prosecute domestic violence cases for Delaware County Legal Aid. She was the recipient of the Wapner, Newman & Wigrizer Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy in 1993. She received her Juris Doctor degree from the Villanova University School of Law in 1993.. Ms. Cockerill went on to serve as law clerk to the Honorable John D’Amico, Jr., Chancery Division, Family Part, Monmouth County, for the 1993-94 term. Since the conclusion of her clerkship, her practice has been devoted to family law, complex matrimonial litigation, interstate and international support and custody issues, and assisted reproductive technology law.. In 1998, Ms. Cockerill was named Young Lawyer of the Year by the New Jersey State Bar Association. She received the Award of Merit from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 1998 as well. Ms. Cockerill received the Woman in Law Award from the Gloucester County Commission on Women in 2002, and the E. Henrietta Roesler, Esquire Women in Law Award, from the Gloucester County Bar Association Women in Law Committee, in 2010.. Ms. Cockerill has served as a Matrimonial Early Settlement Panelist in Monmouth, Camden, Salem and Gloucester Counties. She is a member of the Gloucester County and New Jersey State Bar Associations, as well as the Family Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association. Ms. Cockerill served as Trustee for the Gloucester County Bar Association, from 2001-2007, and as Co-Chairperson for the Gloucester County Family Law Committee from 2003 to 2016. She has acted as a presenter for the Putting Children First Seminars in the Gloucester County Family Court.. In 2011, Ms. Cockerill became a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association Family Law Executive Committee. She is currently a member of the Statewide MESP Panel Chair Committee.. In connection with her assisted reproductive technology practice, Ms. Cockerill represents clients for adoptions, gestational carrier agreements, donor egg agreements, and establishment of parental rights and status after gestational carrier birth.. In addition to her family law and assisted reproductive technology practice, Ms. Cockerill is a New Jersey Court Rule 1:40 Approved Mediator, and accepts mediation clients for family law issues including, but not limited to, custody, support, equitable distribution of property, dissolution of marriages and civil unions.. Ms. Cockerill has volunteered additional time in service to the bench and bar, as a Member of the Gloucester County Domestic Violence Advisory Committee, the Vicinage Liaison Committee on Best Practices, and the New Jersey State Bar Association Speaker’s Bureau. She has volunteered both on the board, and as a speaker for Laws of Separation and Divorce Workshops provided through the Center for People in Transition community project, at Rowan College at Gloucester County.. Ms. Cockerill has presented several programs offered through the Gloucester County Legal Education Association. She is an active member of her parish church, Incarnation in Mantua, New Jersey, where she teaches in the Parish Religious Education Program.. For further information please visit

I have been practicing law since 1999.  I have a diverse practice primarily in the areas of family and criminal law.  I have had additional experience in probate and estate in addition to municipal law.

A Native Hoosier, I graduated from Pike High School in Indianapolis. I attended Grinnell College in Iowa for my undergraduate degree in Political Science and Religious Studies.  I was a member of the Grinnell College Debate team, winning multiple debate team awards and participated in the American Parliamentary Debate Association finals.  I spent six months studying abroad in Puna, India.  Before law school, I lived in Indianapolis and Chicago working for Omni Hotels.. Volunteer service has always been important to me.  I have led and participated in service projects in Grinnell, Boston, San Francisco, Nashville, Quebec, and Indianapolis.  I am a member of the Junior League of Indianapolis, where I am currently serving as a member of the Membership Recruitment Committee.  I am a trained Guardian ad litem for Indiana children, serving as a volunteer GAL through Kids Voice.. During Law School, I participated in the Deans Tutorial Society, Equal Justice Works, the Environmental Law Society, and the International Law Society.  I served as Executive Articles Editor for Volume 21 of the Indiana International and Comparative Law Review. I interned at Indiana Legal Services, where I worked on cases in multiple practice areas, including family law. I clerked at Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc. where I learned a great deal about legal issues affecting Indiana's agricultural community.. My Mother, Donna Bays, is the founder of Bays Family Law.  My father is an architect, and I have two younger brothers.

Sadie Dillon-Baatz concentrates her practice in the area of domestic and family law. She assists clients with dissolutions, adoptions, custody disputes, child support issues, and handles adoptions including private, agency and foster adoptions.. Sadie is a Guardian Ad Litem and completed training to serve in this capacity. Her specialized instruction and education as a Guardian Ad Litem included topics such as early childhood and adolescent development and the identification and treatment of child abuse and neglect. In addition to enhancing her practice as a family law attorney, this training allows her to represent the best interests of individuals who are unable to represent themselves, including children and incapacitated persons.. She has experience working with parents and guardians in family law cases as a volunteer at the Viola J. Taliaferro Family and Children Mediation Clinic in Bloomington during law school. At the clinic she mediated cases involving custody, parenting time, child support, asset and debt division and other family law related disputes.

Leyla Tabatabaie is an associate attorney with Burch Shepard Law Group.. After obtaining her Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from University of California Irvine, Ms. Tabatabaie earned her Juris Doctor degree from Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles. Previous to becoming an associate at Burch, Coulston & Shepard, Ms. Tabatabaie worked shoulder to shoulder with Judge Harvey Silberman of the Los Angeles Superior Court. It was during her Family Law Clerkship where Ms. Tabatabaie’s passion for family law began.. Ms. Tabatabaie works directly with her client’s on successfully navigating their family law matter. She is fluent if Farsi and continues to earn a reputation as aggressive but kindhearted attorney, helping her clients navigate difficult circumstances.. Ms. Tabatabaie is admitted to practice in California and the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. She is an active member of the Orange County Bar Association and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts.