Our Approach: Strategy Comes First
No two family law matters require the same approach. Some disputes are best resolved through skilled negotiation, collaboration, or mediation. Others require aggressive advocacy, formal discovery, motion practice, and trial.
We don't default to conflict, and we don't avoid it when your interests are at stake. We assess the circumstances, understand your priorities, and build a strategy designed to protect your family, your assets, and your future.
With more than 70 years of combined legal experience and a firm founded by an experienced litigator, we have the preparation and judgment to negotiate from strength and fight in court when necessary.
The Right Approach Depends on What’s at Stake.
Every case requires a different strategy. We help you determine which path best protects your interests and moves you toward resolution, whether that means negotiating from strength, working collaboratively, or fighting to win.
We pursue resolution when it serves your interests. But when going to court is the right strategy, we know how to fight.
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Litigation is sometimes the most effective way to protect your interests, particularly in complex, high-asset, high-conflict, or heavily contested family law matters. When negotiation cannot produce an appropriate resolution, our attorneys are prepared to advocate for you through discovery, motions, hearings, and trial.
Founded by longtime litigator Ann Grant, our firm brings decades of litigation experience to family law. Before focusing exclusively on family law, Ann was a partner in complex business litigation and handled sophisticated commercial disputes, antitrust matters, white-collar criminal defense cases, and patent litigation.
That experience shapes how we approach family law today: prepare thoroughly, understand the leverage, anticipate the opposition, and build every case with the courtroom in mind.
When both parties are willing to work toward resolution, collaboration can provide a strategic path forward without the courtroom.
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Not every case needs a courtroom to achieve a strong outcome.
For clients who want to resolve their divorce outside of court, collaborative divorce provides a structured process in which each spouse is represented by their own collaboratively trained attorney.
Financial professionals, mental health professionals, and other specialists may also become part of the team, allowing complex financial, parenting, and family issues to be addressed with the appropriate expertise.
Our role remains the same: protect your interests, provide clear strategic counsel, and help you make informed decisions about your future. When the circumstances are appropriate, collaboration can provide a more private, efficient, and controlled path to resolution.
When compromise is possible, mediation can offer a more efficient path to resolution while keeping you in control of the outcome.
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Resolve what you can. Protect yourself while you do it.
Mediation gives spouses an opportunity to resolve disputes outside of court with the assistance of a neutral mediator. Because the mediator does not represent either spouse, understanding your individual rights, risks, and options remains essential.
Our attorneys can help clients prepare for mediation, develop a negotiation strategy, evaluate proposed agreements, and understand the potential consequences of settlement terms before important decisions are made.
For the right matter, mediation can provide greater control over the process while reducing the time and expense associated with litigation. When meaningful power imbalances, abuse, hidden assets, or an unwillingness to negotiate in good faith are present, other approaches may be more appropriate.
The goal isn’t to fight at all costs. It’s to know when fighting matters.
The strongest family law strategy is not automatically the most aggressive or the most cooperative. It is the one built around your circumstances, your priorities, and what is at stake.
We prepare thoroughly, negotiate from strength, and remain ready to litigate when protecting your interests requires it.
