Marisa Christina San Filippo

Marisa C. San Filippo is a Certified Family Law Specialist and Partner in the firm's Family Law Department. Ms. San Filippo has practiced family law her entire career, and handles a wide variety of cases, including high conflict custody and complex high-asset financial matters.  Ms. San Filippo brings bringing her tenacity, knowledge, and compassion to each matter, handlings cases involving dissolution, legal separation, property characterization and division, child custody and visitation, pre-marital agreements, child and spousal support (initial orders and post-judgment modifications) and paternity matters.  Ms. San Filippo's areas of expertise focus on complicated financial issues, including cases involving valuation of business and partnership interests, goodwill, and equity compensation.  Ms. San Filippo is also an experienced custody attorney, with a background in issues including gatekeeping, move-aways, substance abuse, special needs, and conflicted co-parenting relationships.  Ms. San Filippo has extensive experience drafting and negotiating pre-marital and post-marital agreements.

Ms. San Filippo is a member of the State Bar of California Bar Association, and the San Mateo County and the Santa Clara County Bar Associations. She is also a member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts.

Ms. San Filippo earned her J.D., cum laude, from the University of San Francisco School of Law in May 2008. She also graduated as a member of the McAuliffe Honor Society. While in law school, Ms. San Filippo was a member of the University of San Francisco Law Review and published her comment in the fall of 2007. She received a CALI Award for Excellence in Family Law in spring 2007 and an award for Best Brief for Moot Court in spring 2006.  Ms. San Filippo earned her B.A. in History from the University of California, Berkeley with high honors.

Prior to joining Flicker, Kerin, Kruger & Bissada LLP, Ms. San Filippo spent the summers after her first and second years of law school with the firm as a law clerk.  Upon graduation, she joined the firm as an associate in 2008. She has been a partner with the firm since 2016.