Caren Beth Nichol

Caren is really great. She was my lawyer in a divorce where the other side was pursuing a strategy of maximum harassment and aggression, but Caren just did not buy into that way of doing things. It was clear to me that the judges respected this - and were not impressed by the hellfire and brimstone o...f the other side. Caren herself appears to treat everyone with respect: clients, opposing lawyers, opposing parties, judges. This lowers the temperature and I am confident that this set the stage for a reasonable settlement. Interestingly, Caren was recommended to me by a lawyer friend-of-a-friend. When I told him who the opposing Counsel was (someone well known for very aggressive courtroom tactics), he told me that a natural instinct is to seek an aggressive lawyer to represent me. He advised me against this, saying that judges don't like it, and said that having a smart even-tempered lawyer often works out better in the long run. I felt afterwards that this completely described the situation.