Contact: Law Office of Adryenn Cantor 8880 Rio San Diego Drive, 8th Floor San Diego, CA 92108 (619) 546-7652 adryenn@adryenncantor.com www.adryenncantor.com
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professions, or other experts. For now, Cantor acknowledges that there is little “talk of Cooperative Divorce.” So, keeping true to her innovative nature, she’s launching the project on her own, forging relationships with likeminded colleagues who understand that there are alternatives to litigation, and there are alternatives to mediation. Cantor sees the Cooperative Divorce as the future for divorcing parties. “I’ve always loved that I work in an area of law that is steeped in history. However, it’s also a profession that has archaic and arcane views. Our forefathers had no idea that we would have Google,” she says. “Things change. The legal arena has to change along with it.” But it’s precisely this ever changing nature of law that has always appealed to Cantor. “When I became involved in mediation, it was the cutting edge of the law. That appealed to me, because I always want to remain a lifelong student of the law” she says. Along with that constant drive to learn new and better ways of handling family law legal matters comes Cantor’s unwavering commitment to using her decades of expertise and specialization in the area of family law, sometimes as a committee member of the Family Law Section of the California State Bar, which culminated in being Chair of their Executive Committee, or working for every local Family Law Bar in the cities where she practiced. In fact, next year she’ll serve as the Chair of the Certified Family Specialists Committee in San Diego. Indeed the road home to San Diego was long for Cantor, but she wouldn’t change a thing. From a late-blooming law school graduate to one of the most respected Family Law Specialists in the State, every twist and turn in her travels was absolutely necessary, so that she could return home and provide her clients with only the most expert family law representation and mediation skills in the state. n
» EDUCATION • Certified Family Law Specialist of the California State Bar since 1985 • Thomas Jefferson School of Law, J.D., 1978 • Western State University, B.S.L., 1976
» AREAS OF PRACTICE • Litigation • Family Law • Child Support • Mediation, Collaborative & Cooperative Divorce • Divorce
» ASSOCIATIONS & AWARDS • Past Chair of the Executive Committee of the Family Law Section of the California State Bar • Formerly with Western State University Law Review. • Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Trial Practice. • Co-Author, with Richard Sherman, “The Life, Death and Transformation of Legislation,” Family Law News, Vol. II, No. 3. CEB Panelist, CYLA-CEB Practice Skills Training Program • San Diego Super Lawyers 2009-2012