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David is a Partner and Certified Family Law Specialist by the California Board of Legal Specialization. With a background in finance and business valuation, David specializes in family law matters that involve complex financial issues related to support and property division, including founder's stock, stock options, restricted stock, venture capital interests and other business interests. David also has extensive experience in contested custody matters involving recommending mediation, custody evaluations and the appointment of a special master/parenting coordinator. In addition to his litigation practice, David serves as a consulting attorney to his clients who are attending mediation.. David was named to the Super Lawyers' Northern California Rising Stars lists in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.. David is a member of the Contra Costa County, Alameda County, San Mateo County and Santa Clara County Bar Associations.. David was on the Board of Directors of the Family Law Section of the Contra Costa County Bar Association from 2014 through 2018, serving as the Family Law Section President in 2017. David is currently on the Board of Directors of the entire Contra Costa County Bar Association.

Marisa C. San Filippo is a Certified Family Law Specialist and Partner in the firm's Family Law Department. Ms. San Filippo has practiced family law her entire career, and handles a wide variety of cases, including high conflict custody and complex high-asset financial matters.  Ms. San Filippo brings bringing her tenacity, knowledge, and compassion to each matter, handlings cases involving dissolution, legal separation, property characterization and division, child custody and visitation, pre-marital agreements, child and spousal support (initial orders and post-judgment modifications) and paternity matters.  Ms. San Filippo's areas of expertise focus on complicated financial issues, including cases involving valuation of business and partnership interests, goodwill, and equity compensation.  Ms. San Filippo is also an experienced custody attorney, with a background in issues including gatekeeping, move-aways, substance abuse, special needs, and conflicted co-parenting relationships.  Ms. San Filippo has extensive experience drafting and negotiating pre-marital and post-marital agreements.. Ms. San Filippo is a member of the State Bar of California Bar Association, and the San Mateo County and the Santa Clara County Bar Associations. She is also a member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts.. Ms. San Filippo earned her J.D., cum laude, from the University of San Francisco School of Law in May 2008. She also graduated as a member of the McAuliffe Honor Society. While in law school, Ms. San Filippo was a member of the University of San Francisco Law Review and published her comment in the fall of 2007. She received a CALI Award for Excellence in Family Law in spring 2007 and an award for Best Brief for Moot Court in spring 2006.  Ms. San Filippo earned her B.A. in History from the University of California, Berkeley with high honors.. Prior to joining Flicker, Kerin, Kruger & Bissada LLP, Ms. San Filippo spent the summers after her first and second years of law school with the firm as a law clerk.  Upon graduation, she joined the firm as an associate in 2008. She has been a partner with the firm since 2016.

The Law Office of Diane J.N. Morin was established in 1992. Our office is in Palo Alto, California, and we practice in San Mateo, Santa Clara counties as well as San Francisco. The office also works with an attorney who has had extensive experience in adoption law. After practicing criminal law for many years (both prosecution and defense), we now concentrate exclusively on family law. Ms. Morin has dual nationality, and was raised in another country, she has an extensive clientele from other countries. In the past few years, she has developed a practice in mediation and collaborative law as well as litigation.. Ms. Morin enjoys taking classes to expand her understanding of fields of family law; she attends classes in Family Law, Mental Health as it relates to Family Law, business law, litigation, and trial practice. She has a particular interest in international law because she is a native speaker of Italian and fluent speaker of French. In the past she was also a Research Attorney for the Superior Courts, a District Attorney and represented clients in criminal defense, She continues to be interested in these differing topics. As a mediator and collaborative law attorney, she also attends classes in these areas on a yearly basis and always exceed the required amount of continuing education.

I can help you build an amicable co-parenting relationship and untangle your assets so that you can begin again. At the start of a family law case, most people want a fast and fair process that stays out of court. I can help you achieve those goals, while also planning for trial in the background, just in case.

Before you decide to schedule a consultation with me, I want you to have a sense of who I am. I take a small number of clients and believe the attorney-client relationship, which is the basis of your comfort and success in the dissolution process, needs to be a strong fit. To that end, this is a slightly non-traditional attorney bio intended to help the right clients find me and the rest to find the perfect fit somewhere else.. Family is everything. People often speculate that as a divorce lawyer I must be cynical about marriage and family but nothing could be further from the truth. We live in a society that makes co-creating an enduring marriage very difficult and many of us were not raised with the skills to find and identify the right partner or to maintain a lifelong marriage. That doesn’t change the fact that creating a family is among the most noble things we will ever do. Ending a marriage and altering the shape of a family system must be handled with the same sanctity of purpose as starting one.. A divorce is painful, terrifying, and sometimes overwhelming…but it can also be an opportunity for growth and healing. You know the metaphor: a caterpillar becomes terrified, unrecognizable mush before reorganizing itself and emerging as a butterfly. It might feel like your world is ending right now but it is a privilege for me to help you land solidly on the other side of this enormous change ready to thrive.. I am also a divorcée and mother. I have been through the exact same process my clients are going through now and understand, in the deepest sense, what it is like to be divorcing. I represent my clients with the same sensitivity and diligence I applied to my own dissolution. Beyond that, I understand the fragility and fear that often accompanies the end of a marriage. Clients need an honest, kind, sharp, and gutsy counselor to advise them. I honor the dignity of every client by providing legal excellence, candor, emotional skill, and a grounded, focused presence of advocacy.. I am a dedicated family law practitioner because it’s all about family for me. Before law school when I was exploring the possibility of a career in law, I worked as a paralegal for Meakins Law, a family law firm based in Berkeley where I fell in love with divorce law, our clients, and my colleagues. During law school, I worked in family court as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Roberta S. Hayashi in Santa Clara County and I served as President of Santa Clara Law’s Family Law Society and Student Bar Association. After graduation, I returned to Meakins Law as an attorney where I stayed until I set out to build my own practice.. I am an alumna of UC Berkeley and Santa Clara University School of Law. After graduating law school in 2017, I joined the Santa Clara Law faculty and taught Appellate Advocacy, Advanced Legal Writing, and co-taught Civil Procedure. My legal scholarship and publications focus on reproductive and life-extension biotechnologies, competitive governance, and economic analysis of law. I have also coached ABA Negotiation Competition teams for Santa Clara’s Honors Moot Court program. My work has been featured in The Recorder, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, and MSNBC, among others.. In my free time, I enjoy songwriting and playing guitar, lifting weights, and taking my 4 year old daughter on adventures.. My relationships with my clients are truly collaborative. I have specialized legal knowledge and experience in the unique ecosystem of family law. You know your history, your family, and what you need to thrive during and after this enormous transition. If you are looking for a family attorney who will work with you and guide you through these changes, I’m your girl. Send me an email or use my website form to schedule a consultation!

Lydia E. Crandall is an associate in the Family Law Group.  Lydia began work with the Family Law Group in 2004 as a law clerk. She clerked with the firm throughout law school and became an associate of the firm in 2007.. While completing her law degree, Lydia served as senior editor of the Golden Gate University Law Review and was a member of the law school’s Moot Court Board. She was also selected to participate in the intensive Honors Lawyering Program.. Lydia handles a variety of family law matters including dissolution of marriage cases, post-judgment support and custody modifications, as well as premarital and postmarital agreements.  She has been trained as a mediator and in Collaborative Practice.. Lydia has been named a Northern California Rising Star every year since 2009 by Super Lawyers Magazine. She served as Co-Chair of the Family Law Section of the San Mateo County Bar Association in 2010 and as Chair in 2011.  She is currently co-chair of Collaborative Practice of San Mateo County and the Family Law Section of the Palo Alto Bar Association.  Lydia has also co-authored articles on disclosure obligations and attorney’s fees and sanctions in family law cases.. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Crandall studied abroad in Australia and volunteered in Bahia, Brazil.

I am a Certified Specialist in Family Law, and have practiced family law exclusively on the Peninsula since 1983.   I have a special interest in alternative dispute resolution, which includes mediation, acting as a mediation consultant, and representing clients in negotiating settlements with the help of private judges, but I also represent clients in the public courts in both San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.   I also frequently work with clients from throughout the Bay Area to prepare premarital agreements.

Proudly serving individuals and families in the Bay Area in navigating the Family Court.  Handling matters for dissolution of marriage, child custody, child visitation, child support, spousal support, property valuation and division of property, post-divorce support and custody modifications, and domestic violence restraining orders, among others.. Ms. Furniss has been selected as a 2016 and 2017 Northern California Super Lawyers Rising Stars list.  The Super Lawyers Northern California Rising Stars list is an honor reserved for those lawyers who exhibit excellence in practice. Only 2.5% of attorneys in Northern California receive this distinction.. http://profiles.superlawyers.com/california-northern/redwood-city/lawyer/laura-m--furniss/fa6fd235-cc22-4cc3-a3fc-f1be60e96e19.html. Ms. Furniss was awarded the Dorothy M. Wolfe award by Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County.  The Dorothy M. Wolfe award is given in memory of a woman whose passion for justice for all inspired her to become one of the earliest champions of Legal Aid. This award is given each year to honor efforts that reflect a similar commitment to justice for all the children, families and seniors in our community.

Centrally located in San Mateo County, BPR Law Group provides Family Law and General Civil Litigation legal services throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. BPR Law Group’s practice areas include divorce/dissolution, custody and visitation, property division, spousal and child support, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, and general civil litigation. BPR Law Group provides clients exceptional and effective legal representation, while maintaining the highest levels of personal service, attention, and professionalism.