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About Melanie
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Choosing an attorney to represent you in your divorce, child custody or visitation, adoption, or support case is no small matter. Legal issues between family members naturally cause stress, frustration, and anxiety, and the attorney you choose will be your ally and your source of direction throughout a very difficult time in your life. I find it rewarding to help my clients navigate the legal aspects of their family issues, so that they can worry less about negotiations or litigation, and instead focus their energies on keeping themselves and their families as happy, healthy, and whole as possible.
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Licensed in Virginia for 19 years
State: Virginia
Acquired: 2006
No misconduct found
Location
CowanGates PC
1930 Huguenot Rd, PO Box 35655, Richmond, VA, 23235
Law Offices of Melanie Anne Friend
1930 Huguenot Road, Richmond, VA, 23235
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Experience
Honors
2015
Super Lawyer (family law), Super Lawyers
2014
Rising Star, Super Lawyers
2014
Legal Elite (family law), Virginia Business Magazine
2013
Rising Star, Super Lawyers
2013
Legal Elite (family law), Virginia Business Magazine
2013
Young Lawyer of the Year, Richmond Bar Association
2012
Rising Star, SuperLawyers
2011
Rising Star, Super Lawyers
2010
Rising Star, SuperLawyers
Work Experience
2007 - Present
Attorney, CowanGates
2006 - 2007
Judicial Clerk to Hon. Timothy Meredith, Court Of Special Appeals Of Maryland
Associations
2013 - Present
Collaborative Professionals of Richmond
2013 - Present
Virginia Collaborative Professionals
2013 - Present
International Academy of Collaborative Professionals
2011 - Present
Richmond Bar AssociationPresident
2010 - Present
Metro Richmond Family Law Bar Association
2010 - Present
Virginia Trial Lawyers AssociationYoung Trial Lawyers Leadership Committee
2007 - Present
Metropolitan Richmond Women's Bar AssociationPresident (2015-2016)
2007 - Present
Chesterfield County Bar AssociationMember
2007 - Present
Lewis F. Powell, Jr. American Inn of Court
Education
2006
College of William and Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law
JD - Juris Doctor
2003
Thiel College
BA - Bachelor of Arts
Languages
English