JD Supra Contributors: February Roundup - Savvy Women in the Law

Posted on February 23, 2009 by Aviva Cuyler

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This month, our roundup showcases the wonderfully diverse group of super-savvy women in
the law who have recently joined JD Supra. We're thrilled to have them on the site, and look
forward to seeing more of their work:

Danialle Riggins - an attorney, and principal at Riggins Law Firm,

handling employment law cases, family law,personal injury, Social
Security disability, and criminal cases.... [legal documents]

Pamela Woldow - principal and general counsel for Altman Weil, which
provides management consulting services exclusively to legal
organizations. Clients include law firms, law departments, governmental
legal offices and legal vendors of all sizes and types throughout North
America, the U.K. and abroad.... [articles]

Sheri Abrams - founded her own law firm in 1995. Since that time she
has concentrated her law practice to the areas of Social Security
Disability Law, Wills, Living Wills, Powers of Attorney and Special
Needs Trusts. Ms. Abrams regularly handles cases in Virginia,
Maryland, and the District of Columbia.... [legal documents]
Joy Levy - focuses on representing financially distressed companies,
both in and out of court. In addition, Joy represents financial institutions,
private lenders, trustees, and creditors committees in loan restructurings,
workouts, and commercial litigation. Ms. Levy is the author of “The
Impact of Substantive Consolidation in Bankruptcy” which appeared in
the September 2004 edition of the Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine, as
well as chapters in a number of other Bankruptcy publications.... [legal
documents]
Trace Rabern - an appellate writer for thirteen years. In 1997 she began
writing as judicial clerk for the late Justice Dan McKinnon on the New
Mexico Supreme Court. For eight and a half years, Ms. Rabern was
proud to be an appellate attorney with the Appellate Division of the New
Mexico Public Defender Department, and litigated over a hundred
criminal appeals. She now runs a solo specialty criminal law writing
practice in Santa Fe... [legal documents]

Allison Shields - president, Legal Ease Consulting, which

helps lawyers attract the kinds of clients they want by creating effective
marketing messages and realistic marketing plans customized to the firm
and its lawyers. Skilled at identifying competitive advantages and unique
benefits - and selecting marketing and business development activities
best suited to a firm and its lawyers.... [articles]

Marta Chadwick - provides a holistic approach to family law matters.

Full representation, divorce coaching, parent coordinator, mediation.
Also specializes in representation in domestic violence cases: restraining
orders, criminal matters, victim representation in hearings and
representation for domestic violence organizations. Training and
consulting also available for domestic violence issues, specializing in
identification and interventions in high risk domestic violence cases ...
[legal documents]

Angela Scarlett - a Canadian lawyer who practices Immigration law and

provides legal research and drafting. Ms. Scarlett is also President of
OPIN Americas, Inc. a relocation firm that caters to businesses seeking to
move employees to Canada from within the Americas i.e., North, South,
and Central America and the Caribbean... [legal documents]

Elaine Martin- managing partner at the Law Office of Elaine Martin, a

full service immigration law firm providing experienced and skillful
services to businesses and individuals nationally and internationally. The
firm advises companies of all sizes on strategies to attract and retain
valuable foreign nationals. They also work with individuals in preparing
family and employment-based visa petitions, and applications for US
citizenship... [legal documents]

Jayne Navarre - a leading Internet marketing strategist with over 14

years of legal-industry marketing and business development service, Ms.
Navarre applies sound, ethical and creative strategy to Web
communications --including law firm web sites, social networking,
 content optimization, search marketing and social media tactics. Helps
clients achieve success by bringing insight and intelligibility to the
rapidly changing Internet landscape... [articles]

Angela Reyes - managing partner, Heygood, Orr, Reyes, Pearson

& Bartolomei, a law firm that focuses its practice on representing
plaintiffs in personal injury, business litigation, dangerous prescription
drugs, product defect and wrongful death lawsuits... [legal documents]

Lindsy Doucette - practicing real estate law, corporate law, and estate
planning at Lieben, Whitted, Houghton, Slowiaczek & Cavanagh, P.C.,
L.L.O. a mid-sized boutique firm in Omaha, Nebraska which represents
individual and corporate clients in all areas from family law and estate
planning, to corporate formation, litigation, dissolution and everything in
between... [legal documents]

Natasha Phillips - a non-practicing barrister working for pressure groups

like Justice For Families, which combine political and legal policy
proposals with a view to reforming the Family Justice System. Natasha is
the founder of 'Divorce Manual' in England, a project which focuses on
encouraging pragmatic reforms within the English Family Justice
System... [articles]

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