Michele B. Brown, CLS-F

Selected as one of San Diego County's Top Attorneys for 2007, MS. BROWN is a Supervising Attorney with the firm. She joined the firm in 2000 after spending four years heading the family law department for a firm in Northern California. Ms. Brown obtained her Juris Doctorate from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1994, where she received the 1994 Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, with a Minor in Spanish, from the University of California, Riverside in 1989, and as a Rotary International Scholar, she studied Politics and French at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Ms. Brown was admitted to the State Bar of California and the Federal District Court for the Southern District in 1994 and she became a Certified Specialist in Family Law in 2002. She is an elected member of the Executive Committee of the State Bar of California, Family Law Section and an elected member of the Executive Committee of the San Diego County Certified Family Law Specialists. Ms. Brown is a member of the San Diego County Bar Association, the Family Law Section of the San Diego County Bar Association, and the Family Law Section of the State Bar of California. She is the Vice-Chair of the Certified Family Law Specialists Legislation Committee; she co-chaired the Spring 2007 Family Law Seminar on Psychological Issues and is a member of the Certified Family Law Specialists Publicity committee. Ms. Brown has written articles for the Certified Family Law Specialists Newsletter, acted as the Family Law Floor leader for the San Diego County Bar Association Conference of Delegates, where she authored several proposed Family Law bills, and has spoken at the Certified Family Law Specialists Seminar on Jurisdictional Issues. She has volunteered as an attorney for the Family Law Facilitator's Office, is a volunteer family law attorney for the annual KNSD Ask-A-Lawyer program and serves as a Judge Pro Tem for the San Diego Superior Court Family Law Division. Ms. Brown is fluent in Spanish and conversant in French.