About
Bio for Donna A. Laurent, Certified Family Law Specialist
Donna graduated from Southwestern University School of Law, Summa Cum Laude, in May 1994. While at Southwestern, she earned American Jurisprudence Awards in Legal Research & Writing, Constitutional Law and Torts. She also received Corpus Juris Secundum Awards in Civil Procedure and Torts and an Outstanding Achievement Award inside the International Protection of Human Rights. She turned into invited to Law Review and Moot Court, however selected, as an alternative, to dedicate her non-school hours to raising her young son, who commenced kindergarten whilst she started out law faculty.
Prior to law school, Donna earned a B.A. in Drama from the University of Virginia and spent several years performing in various theater companies earlier than sooner or later turning into the Director of Acquisitions for a private real property owner/developer of multi-million greenback synthetic housing communities positioned all through the US. She held that function for numerous years and became liable for acquiring properties worth over $50,000,000. This history and experience provide Donna with particular capabilities which may be creatively applied in both court advocacy and in analyzing complex monetary troubles.
While nevertheless attending regulation college, Donna began volunteering in the Domestic Violence Clinic of the San Fernando Valley Neighborhood Legal Services. She has endured to recommend for domestic violence victims over the last 16 years and has a specific expertise on this place of own family law.
In addition, Donna is pretty experienced within the illustration of parents of “unique wishes” children, which includes children with autism, bipolar sickness, learning disabilities, ADHD, and so on. As the figure of a special wishes toddler herself, she brings personalised expertise, empathy and an capability to expand and put in force individualized parenting plans that first-rate match the unique wishes of these kids and their households. She has lectured considerably, both for various bar associations and for the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts on troubles associated with special needs kids concerned in circle of relatives law complaints .
Donna is likewise extraordinarily lively in nearby bar affiliation sports and does volunteer paintings for the Los Angeles Superior Court’s Family Law Departments in a number of capacities. She has sat as a “Judge Pro Tem” or brief decide, in severa circle of relatives law courts at some point of L.A. County due to the fact that 2005. She is a volunteer own family regulation mediator for the Van Nuys branch court. She and Cari M. Pines are currently Co-Chair Elects of the Executive Committee of the Family Law Section of the San Fernando Valley Bar Association (SFVBA) and Co-Chairs of the Family Law Section’s Programs. She is a former Trustee of the SFVBA, a Co-Chair of its Lawyer Referral Service Committee, and a member of its Diversity Committee, which includes being an person consultant/Committee has club of the Bar’s Law and Government Explorer Post #1926.
In her free time, Donna’s interests consist of flower gardening & training meditation.
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Location
Legal Issues
- Divorce
- Collaborative Law, Contested Divorce, Military Divorce, Property Division, Same Sex Divorce, Spousal Support & Alimony, Uncontested Divorce
- Family Law
- Adoption, Child Custody, Child Support, Father s Rights, Guardianship & Conservatorship, Paternity, Prenups & Marital Agreements, Restraining Orders, Same Sex Family Law
Costs
- Payment With Credit Card
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Retaines and Rates
I give discounted hourly quotes for victims of home violence and parents of youngsters with special wishes.
Certificates
California State Bar
Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- President of the Board of Directors
Haven Hills, Inc.
2014
Educations
Graduation year: 1991
