Shannon Leigh Kowitz

I am incredibly grateful for the exceptional representation I received from Shannon during my child custody and divorce proceedings. From the very beginning, Shannon demonstrated professionalism, expertise, and genuine care for my case. She took the time to thoroughly understand my situation and prov...ided clear, compassionate guidance throughout the entire process. Shannon was always available to answer my questions and kept me informed at every step. Their attention to detail and strategic approach made me feel confident and supported. Thanks to her hard work and dedication, I was able to achieve the best possible outcome in my case. I highly recommend Shannon to anyone seeking a knowledgeable, trustworthy, and compassionate attorney for family law matters. They truly made a difficult and stressful time more manageable, and I can't thank her enough for all they did for me.

I went through a tough time over multiple years and Shannon was absolutely everything I needed in legal counsel. I can’t say enough positive things. She genuinely cared about me and my family and I felt like we were a true collaborative team. I could be very open with her and I always knew she would ...tell me what I needed to know/hear, even if it was hard to stomach sometimes. She stood up for me and handled things when life was all around hard and I couldn’t keep track of all of the legal issues I had to be on top of. While her hourly rate was not cheap, I noticed that she was very fair in how she billed me. She never overbilled, which unfortunately was my experience when she was on maternity leave and I had to temporarily have another lawyer. I have to say that although I tried a few different counsels during that time, I was so eager and thankful when she returned from leave- none were as thorough as she was. I will be forever grateful to her for helping me through that tough time in my life.

I think she tried as much as she could...but I was very disappointed at her time & scheduling management capabilities. One big surprise was that she completely forgot to arrange online meeting way in advance with a Judge for my 1st settlement meeting and I did not know any Zoom meeting information un...til the very last minute. The meeting started out in confusion on the Judge side as well and the Judge was unaware of the change from in-person to Zoom meeting, either. The Judge showed up late by 20 minutes because of the last minute notification, then my STVX was unable to turn his webcam on for good 12 minutes so there was another delay. The supposedly an hour settlement meeting was shortened into less than 30 minutes meeting....of course, nothing productive came out of the meeting. Secondly, she missed an important meeting with a DCFA and I and the DCFA were on hold for about an hour without any follow-up and she did not even apologize in person. Thirdly she did not inform/cascade the important court date to me or my new lawyer so that it caused major rescheduling on our ends to show up on my court date. I had to take an emergency leave from work and my lawyer had to rearrange his schedule until the very last minute again. I realized that she did not care/value about my time and effort to adjust to her uninformed and sudden schedule changes. Also, I do not forget when she said, "Are you in dire straights?" when I wanted to talk about what I am possibly entitled to receive from my STVX. Then she made an insensitive joke with her co-worker when we were going over my expenses on dining out.

I would like to share what an absolutely amazing attorney Shannon Kowitz is. She is the perfect combination of what I believe every great family law attorney should aspire to: someone who cares about you as a person and yet is also willing to tell you the tough things you may not want to hear but ne...ed to, particularly if you are hoping to avoid a costly trial. Fair, firm, smart, with a big heart. That is Shannon.

I have worked with Shannon for a few years now with regards to 3 separate issues and she has been highly effective with her execution and clear with her advise. 1. I have 50/50 legal/physical custody with my 3 kids. The first issue was me trying to get either full physical custody or for my x-wife... to actually spend time with the kids when they were in her custody; and for her to stop abusive behavior. Naturally my x-wife made many false counter claims with no evidence and asked for child support (despite being a high income person). Shannon did an excellent job asking the right question to my x-wife during the pre-trial disposition (which resulted in answers that would make it difficult for her in court); also Shannon did a great job explaining to me the law and what we can do to get the results I wanted. We built a solid case for court, however she was honest with me and the reality is it takes many incidents (and not just a handful) for my x-wife to lose physical custody. The end result was that we got my x-wife to sign some papers that said you can't do X, Y, or Z and I got the result I was looking for; a better mom. 2. Situation number two was a crazy x-girlfriend that said she was sad that we broke up and because I returned her stuff to a friend during a 5 second visit of just dropping it off she claimed I caused her to go into emotional distress, even though I haven't seen her in 6 months and just texted her to pickup her stuff (that she asked from me) from her friend. The first time this went to court I thought it was such an easy case I actually tried to go against her lawyer. I almost won, but my x-girlfriend was talking about how sad she was, her life is meaningless, she shakes all the time in sadness, going to therapy, crying in court, etc then the judge said she would grant a protective order, despite there being no legal basis. So I called Shannon and appealed. This went to court and Shannon blew it out of the water and the judge within the 1st minute of court said this should be dismissed and for the remaining hour or so just dismissed my x-girlfriend. Shannon did a great job being clear, compassionate, and focused on the law. The lesson learned here is to use a lawyer in court even if the case seems simple to win; it's difficult to cross examine someone as the defendant. 3. The last and most recent situation was drafting up a pre-nup for me and my fiance. It was written amazingly well front the first draft and without argument my fiance agreed.