Born in Los Angeles, California, Alison graduated from the University of Southern California in 2013 with B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Law and minor in Spanish (Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude). She graduated from USC Gould School of Law with a J.D. in 2017.

Alison represents clients in divorce, parentage, and estate planning matters. She enjoys working with clients, learning about their children and financial goals, and counseling them on their options so they can make informed decisions that are right for them.

Alison is an executive committee member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA)’s Family Law Section, where she serves as Chair of the Membership Committee. She is also a board member of the South Bay Bar Association (SBBA) and co-chair of SBBA’s Family Law Section. She is a former executive committee member of LACBA’s Barristers/Young Section, where she served as Co-Chair of the membership committee and as liaison to LACBA’s Family Law Section.

Alison is an MC3-certified mediator, which is the premier standard for mediator certification. This certification requires at least 80 hours of mediation-specific training, 50 hours of experience, and compliance with ethical standards. Learn more about the MC3-certification process here.

She co-founded an interdisciplinary mediation and collaborative divorce study group, comprised of mediators, attorneys, mental health professionals, financial professionals, and realtors committed to peacemaking in the profession.

During law school, Alison was a law clerk at McGaughey & Spirito. She was also a summer associate in 2015 and 2016 at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, a large civil litigation firm based in downtown Los Angeles. In 2016, Alison was a judicial extern at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse serving the Honorable B. Scott Silverman in family court.