My professional and my personal experience has prepared me to be a family lawyer. I graduated from BU with a bachelor’s degree in journalism, and I actually worked as a newspaper reporter and editor for about six years before I went to law school. So those skills that I developed as a journalist helped me, I think, as an attorney to not only elicit information from my clients that is relevant and salient, but then also to uncover other information through discovery, through other means. To put together and craft a story to tell to the court that is persuasive and that is hopefully going to allow the court to make the decision that would be most favorable to my client.

Also, I served as a law clerk to the Massachusetts appeals court and to the SJC after law school, so my legal research and writing skills were honed during those clerkships. Personally, I’m a wife. I am a mother. I’m a former business owner, and I’m a child of divorce, and so I think those qualities enable me to relate to my clients in – with respect to the concerns that they have, you know? These are not abstract concepts to me. These are things that I can empathize and identify with. That enables me, I think, to connect with them on, you know, a personal level and to really invest myself in zealously representing them.