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Paula
H Noe
President, Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council
"FAMILY LAW, COLLABORATIVELY"
Attorney Paula H.
Noe practices Collaborative Family Law in Dedham, 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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