The Lawyer Mom Owner Summit is a virtual conference designed to support and empower women who balance the roles of lawyer, mother, and business owner. Organized by the summit brings together a diverse group of speakers and participants to address the unique challenges and opportunities faced by lawyer-mom-owners.
The event covers a wide range of topics, including practical advice on protecting law firms and clients while operating virtually, strategies for breaking barriers in uncommon practice areas, and methods for supporting other women and advancing diversity. Additionally, the summit offers inspiring ideas on starting a firm, building side hustles, or transitioning to new legal careers in mediation, technology, academia, and more.
Attendees can expect networking opportunities through speed-networking sessions and a conference app that connects lawyers based on practice area, location, or alma mater. The summit also features a diverse lineup of speakers, ensuring fresh perspectives and insights. Notable speakers include Carolyn Elefant, Jeena Belil, and Dineen Pashoukos Wasylik, among others.
This summit is ideal for lawyer-mom-owners seeking to navigate the complexities of managing a law practice while raising a family. It also welcomes attorneys from various backgrounds interested in exploring alternative career paths, enhancing work-life balance, and connecting with a supportive community of peers.
Speakers(36)
Alexandra Lozano
Attorney
Alexandra 'Ally' Lozano is an award-winning attorney, national speaker, law firm consultant, best-selling author, and mother of five. She empowers women to run better legal businesses through her podcast, 6 Minute CEO, and her daily Morning Business Chats on Facebook and Instagram.
Amy Howe
Reporter at SCOTUSblog
Amy Howe served as the editor and a reporter for SCOTUSblog until September 2016; she continues to serve as an independent contractor and reporter for SCOTUSblog. She primarily writes for her eponymous blog, Howe on the Court.
Angela Barker
Attorney
Angela Barker is a divorce and family lawyer, assisting clients as they transition through various stages of life, including drafting pre-nuptial agreements, providing advice and counsel to clients considering separation or divorce, and representing clients in divorce negotiations and court proceedings.
Annette Choti
President at Law Quill, Inc.
Annette Choti is the President of Law Quill, Inc., providing online legal content for small and solo law firms to attract more clients and increase their online visibility. She has been published nationally in USA Today, The Today Show Online, and Marketwatch.
Autumn Witt Boyd
Attorney at The Law Office of Autumn Witt Boyd PLLC
Autumn Witt Boyd is an experienced lawyer who helps ambitious entrepreneurs reach their big goals, faster and smarter. She guides online companies as they grow, especially those who sell online courses and digital products.
Bunmi Emenanjo
Attorney
Bunmi Emenanjo is an attorney with a biotechnology background, with a career spanning 17 years moving fluidly between the legal and biotechnology world. She created Atlas Book Club, a book subscription box company focused on globally diverse children's books.
Carla Miller
Owner at The Miller Firm
Carla Miller is the owner of The Miller Firm, a law practice dedicated to meeting the legal needs of small business owners and professionals. Her practice is dedicated to providing cost-effective legal representation and advice to entrepreneurs and companies.
Carmen Rosas
Attorney
Attorney Carmen Rosas was born and raised in the Bay Area. She focuses on empowering women to take control of their lives, even beyond the grave, and was named a 2020 Super Lawyer Rising Star.
Catherine Tang
Attorney
Catherine Tang is a law firm owner and single mom of two young kids. She ran a modern law firm from abroad before recently moving back to the US. Her practice is designed to be completely remote, having worked from over 10 countries in the last couple of years.
Chelsie Marie Lamie
Attorney
Chelsie Marie Lamie is a Florida Personal Injury, Negligent Security, and Sexual Abuse litigator. She represents clients who have been victims of motor vehicle accidents, slip and fall incidents, sexual abuse, and serious assaults at nightclubs, hotels, or in parking lots.
Christy C. Collins
Circuit Judge-Elect at 9th Judicial Circuit of Florida
Circuit Judge-Elect Christy C. Collins was recently elected to the Circuit Court of the 9th Judicial Circuit of Florida. She is a dedicated wife and mother, married for 15 years with three children, and serves as a minister at Fresh Anointing Family Worship Center in Eatonville, Florida.
Crystal J. McDonough
Founder at McDonough Law LLC
Crystal J. McDonough is the founder of McDonough Law LLC, practicing in energy, natural resources, business, and estate planning and administration. She also founded LawAdventure.com and offers a course designed for attorneys who want to design their dream law firm around their dream lifestyle.
Dameka Davis
Founder at Davis Law Center
Attorney Dameka Davis is the founder of Davis Law Center, a staunch advocate for her clients. Born and raised in Tulsa, OK, she previously served as an Assistant State Attorney for the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office.
Debra Vey Voda-Hamilton
Principal at Hamilton Law and Mediation, PLLC
Debra Vey Voda-Hamilton is the principal at Hamilton Law and Mediation, PLLC, using alternative dispute resolution methodologies to transform disagreements over animals. She is the pioneer of applying ADR to conflicts over animals and authored a book on the subject.
Dineen Pashoukos Wasylik
Owner at DPW Legal
Dineen Pashoukos Wasylik is the only lawyer in Florida who is board certified in both Appellate Practice and Intellectual Property Law. She represents clients before the USPTO, TTAB, Federal Circuit, and in state and Federal Court.
Elise Buie
Founder at Elise Buie Family Law Group
Elise Buie, Esq. is a Seattle-based family and divorce lawyer and founder of the Elise Buie Family Law Group. She advocates for her clients and the best interests of their children, helping them move forward with dignity and from a position of strength.
Erin Albanese
Attorney
Erin Albanese has a solo practice based on the Eastside of Seattle, focusing on corporate and business law, nonprofit law, and estate planning. She represents business clients in a wide range of industries in connection with formations, financings, general commercial transactions, and mergers and acquisitions.
Goz Odediran
Attorney at Odediran Law Firm
Goz Odediran is the owner and principal attorney of Odediran Law Firm, an Austin, Texas-based Education Law Firm for Students, Parents, and Teachers. She represents the interests of K-12, post-secondary, medical/health profession students, parents, and teachers.
Jeena Belil
Jennifer Lupo
Managing Member at Lupo Law, Arbitration and Mediation PLLC
Jennifer Lupo is the Managing Member of Lupo Law, Arbitration and Mediation PLLC of Manhattan and Garden City, N.Y. With nearly 25 years of dispute resolution experience, she brings a unique perspective to her craft as a mediator and arbitrator.
Kimberly Bennett
Attorney at K Bennett Law LLC
K Bennett Law LLC is a boutique trademark and business strategy law firm providing subscription and on-demand, flat fee legal services focused on helping clients protect their brands and grow profitable, sustainable businesses.
Latrice Latin
Attorney at The Latin Law Group, LLC
Attorney Latrice L. Latin established The Latin Law Group, LLC in 2010, specializing in Personal Injury and Civil Rights matters. She has secured seven-figure settlements for her personal injury clients.
Lisa A. Kelly
Owner and President at Federmann Financial Advisors Inc.
Lisa A. Kelly is the owner and President of Federmann Financial Advisors Inc., an independent fee-only investment advisory firm located on Long Island, New York. A CPA acting as a fiduciary for over 30 years, Lisa provides tax, financial planning, and investment management services to clients worldwide.
Mary Grace Guzmán
Attorney at Guzmán Legal Solutions
Mary Grace Guzmán of Guzmán Legal Solutions advises lawyers, law firms, and law students on their professional responsibilities and risk management needs. She also teaches legal ethics and professional responsibility at JFK Law School.
Melanie Leonard
Founder at streamlined.legal
Melanie Leonard is the founder of streamlined.legal, helping small law firms create efficiency in their daily workflows and optimize their use of practice management software. She previously built a thriving real estate law practice and successfully kept her desk free of paper.
Melanie Lippman
Image Consultant and Personal Branding Expert
Melanie Lippman is a New York-based Image Consultant and Personal Branding expert. She works with female attorneys to stop the stress and overwhelm of getting dressed, defining their personal brand style to make them instantly recognizable and seen as leaders.
Nina B. Ries
Attorney at Ries Law Group
Nina B. Ries of Ries Law Group has extensive experience in business and real estate, both in litigation and on the transactional side, for clients ranging from entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 companies in various sectors.
Pamela Grady
Co-Founder at Crews Grady PLLC
Pamela Grady co-founded Crews Grady PLLC in 2013 with the desire to empower her clients and her community. She utilizes her love of communication, technology, research, and planning to create successful outcomes for her clients and economic prosperity for her community.
Rebecca Geller
Attorney at The Geller Law Group
Rebecca Geller is an award-winning attorney, philanthropist, and passionate advocate for equality and human rights. In 2011, she formed The Geller Law Group with a business model that makes sense for working parents.
Regina Edwards
Owner and Managing Attorney at Edwards Family Law
Regina I. Edwards is the Owner and Managing Attorney of Edwards Family Law, practicing in Gwinnett County, Georgia since 2001. She has 20 years of complex family law litigation experience and was one of the first attorneys in her area to go completely paperless in 2008.
Shabnam Malek
Partner at Brand & Branch LLP
Shabnam Malek is a partner at Brand & Branch LLP and co-founder and founding President of the International Cannabis Bar Association. She advises clients on how best to grow, navigate risk, resolve disputes, and balance business needs and legal concerns.
Sheronda Blackburn
Technology Attorney
Sheronda Blackburn is a technology attorney with over 15 years of experience both on the software industry side as well as the client side. She has a proven track record of effective management.
Sonia Lakhany
Founder at Lakhany Law, PC
Sonia Lakhany is the founder of Lakhany Law, PC, focusing her practice on counseling business owners on protecting their business names, logos, and taglines through trademark registrations. She co-authored a book called 'Making Your Mark: Practical Guidance from Two Expert Trademark Attorneys on Choosing and Protecting Names for Your Products.'
Susan Cartier Liebel
Founder & CEO at Solo Practice University
Susan Cartier Liebel is a lawyer-turned-entrepreneur, Founder & CEO of Solo Practice University, the only online educational and professional networking community for lawyers and law students who want to create and grow their solo/small firm practices.
Tanya Lewis
Attorney at Snell & Wilmer LLP
Tanya Lewis is an attorney with the Phoenix, AZ-based firm of Snell & Wilmer LLP, focusing her practice on commercial litigation, emphasizing the financial services industry. She regularly represents major financial institutions in disputes involving federal and state consumer protection statutes.
Ticora Davis
Attorney at The Creator's Law Firm
Ticora Davis is an intellectual property advocate, attorney, author, and speaker providing culturally relevant legal representation to black women and creatives of color. She founded The Creator's Law Firm in 2017 to help experts and entrepreneurs protect their brands.
Event Details
- Date
- June 10-11, 2025
- 2 days
- Location
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Pricing
- $39 early bird
- Audience
- Lawyer-mom-owners, attorneys seeking alternative career paths, and legal professionals interested in work-life balance and diversity.