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Paula
H Noe
President, Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council
"FAMILY LAW, COLLABORATIVELY"
Attorney
Paula H. Noe practices Collaborative Family
Law in Cambridge, Massachusetts concentrating in helping families
through
crises; she is also available to serve as a Parenting Coordinator for post-divorce children's issues. Her practice emphasizes the need
for fostering dialogue and relationships with and between clients,
since most
family law clients must and do have the need for a continuing
relationship. She is a 1986 graduate of
New England School of Law (with honors), where she was a New England
Scholar
and a participant in the Special Part-time Student program, which
allowed her
to attempt to seek balance and flexibility, a challenge which continues
to this
day. In some of her former lives, she
received both her Bachelor of Arts and Master’s degree in English at
Simmons
College (with High Honors in each case), has designed and administered
job
training programs at a regional vocational technical high school as one
of 2
female administrators, has taught English to high school students and
has been
a playground director – all of which have prepared her for the practice
of law. She represented the husband in the
precedent-setting custody of frozen embryos (during divorce) case, AZ
v BZ,
which was ultimately decided by the SJC (Supreme Judicial Court) in her client’s favor in
February 2000. She is admitted to
practice in Massachusetts, in the District of
Massachusetts and at the Supreme Court of the United States.
She is a founding
member of the Massachusetts
Collaborative Law Council, and was elected in March 2004 to serve as
President-Elect; in addition, she has served on the Board of the Massachusetts CLC
and the
faculty of many of its attorney trainings and on the faculty of other
MCLE
(Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education) and MBA (Massachusetts Bar
Association) and BBA (Boston Bar
Association) and Suffolk University Advanced Legal Education seminars. She also promotes Collaborative Law by
speaking to local and civic groups about its process and benefits.
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