Stephen Adams, CFLS: Stephen Adams, Certified Family Law Specialist, practices law in San Francisco and is president of California Family Law Report, Inc. His firm limits its practice to family law consultations, trials and appeals. He is a fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (past president, Northern California Chapter; past governor, National Board of Managers) and the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers. He is the founder of the Association of Certified Family Law Specialists and was the organization's first president. Mr. Adams has also served as chair of the Family Law Section of the San Francisco Bar Association and as secretary of the State Bar Family Law Section and editor of its newsletter.
Active in the ABA sections of family law and taxation, he lectures throughout the country on family law issues. As an occasional faculty member of the Center for Judicial Education and Research (CJER) Institutes, he has been involved with the Continuing Judicial Studies and New Judges Orientation Programs. He has taught community property at the University of California's Boalt Hall, and in 1964-1965 he was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Comparative Family Law at the University of Freiburg/Br., Germany. A 1961 graduate of Reed College, Portland, Oregon, he earned his law degree from Boalt Hall in 1964.
Mr. Adams is editor and publisher of California Family Law Report™ (CFLP™) and California Family Law FIRST ALERT™; author of California Family Law Practice™ (CFLP™), Court Companion™, co-author of DEDUCTOR™, and California Marital Settlement Agreements™ (CAMSA™); and author/designer of the following CFLR Numbers Books: GUIDELINER™, PENSIONER™. In addition, he has designed family law software programs that include DissoMaster™, Executioner™, PROPertizer/Pensioner™, CAMSAlect™, and Family Law Integrated Resource Terminal (F.L.I.R.T™) CFLP-PC™.
 Hon. Etta O. Gillivan (Ret.): After a decade as a Superior Court Commissioner on the San Diego County bench, Commissioner Gillivan has become an expert in managing the complex issues inherent in family law. A trained mediator, she is a partner in the dispute resolution firm, Hadden & Gillivan in Ventura County. Commissioner Gillivan serves on volunteer and professional mediation panels and as a family law panelist for state and local bars, and other associations. She has also served as an adjunct professor of law, teaching ADR, community property and family law courses.
 Judge Melinda A. Johnson (Ret.) served on the Ventura Superior Court, specializing in family law. While on the bench, she taught and chaired the continuing Judicial Studies program family law course, and the California Center for Judicial Education family law workshop. She was a charter member of the family law advisory committee to the Judicial Council. She has taught at CFLR's Trial Advocacy seminar, Advanced Family Law Course and the FLRC review program. She has been teaching the Family Law 101 and Nuts & Bolts seminars since 2003. Since retiring from the bench, Judge Johnson has been a mediator, arbitrator and referee through Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services (JAMS).
 Judge Thomas Trent Lewis became a Certified Family Law Specialist in 1985 and was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers in 1988. He was appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court in 2006 and is assigned to a family law department in the Central District. He currently serves on the CJER Family Law Education Committee and the Judicial Council of Family & Juvenile Law Advisory Committee. Judge Lewis has a long history of Bar Association activities, including President of the San Fernando Bar Association and Chair of the Board of Legal Specialization in 1997. He has taught on family law issues for legal seminars hosted by AAML, CPA Education Foundation, CEB and CJER.
 Margaret England is a family law attorney in Santa Rosa. Ms. England interned as a Certified Law Clerk at the Sonoma County District Attorneys' Family Support Division. She began a solo practice in Family Law and Estate Planning. In 1997, she joined Lanahan & Reilley LLP and in 2001 returned to solo practice. An experienced litigator, her practice is focused on mediation and integrating a collaborative practice approach. She also served two terms as a Sonoma County Bar Association Board Member; Vice Chair and Chair of the Sonoma County Bar Family Law Section; a member of Sonoma County Family Law Rules Committee; a Sonoma County Court Settlement Conference panelist; a Volunteer Attorney for Legal Services Foundation and Legal Services; and past President of PACE (Parent and Child Education) Board.
 Stephen James Wagner is a Certified Family Law Specialist and partner in the Sacramento law firm of Dick & Wagner, specializing in complex family law matters, including issues relating to fiduciary duties, characterization, tracings, business valuations and support. He is a Diplomate of the American College of Family Trial Attorneys, a permanent faculty member of the ABA's Annual Family Law Trial Advocacy Institute and a member of the California and International AAML and ACFLS. He has been a speaker for more than 150 CLE programs. He is coauthor, along with Dawn Gray, of the new LexisNexis/Matthew Bender publication, Complex Issues in California Family Law. He has taught over 175 family law seminars.
 Sandra Purnell, CFLS: Mediating Attorney. Sandra has had a lengthy career as an educator, family law specialist, mediator and family law facilitator. Her practice currently focuses on unbundling and divorce mediation. Sandra received her law degree from UCLA where she was on the UCLA Law Review. She also holds a Ph.D. in Communication Theory from the University of Minnesota.
Mary Duryee, Ph.D.: Mary Duryee, Ph.D., is a psychologist and mediator in private practice in Oakland, California, She has taught for the Statewide Office of Family Court Services in California; the Center for Judicial Education and Research; Arizona Family Law judges Conference; California Family law Report; and, the National Council of juvenile and Family Law judges, in Reno, Nevada. She has written a chapter on Child Development for the Family Law Bench Manual for California Family Law judges; a chapter on Mediation Child Custody for Matthew Bender; and numerous articles on various topics in family law. She was the Director for Family Court Services, Alameda County Superior Court, for 12 years from 1982 to 1994. She has provided consultation to a number of Family Law Courts in California on providing services to families. She received her Ph.D. in 1980 from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California, in Social-clinical psychology; her Master's in Clinical Psychology from San Francisco State University in 1976; and her Bachelors' from Stanford University in 1971 in Architecture.
 Steven Sparta, Ph.D.: Dr. Steven Sparta is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCSD. He is also Professor of Psychology at San
Diego
State University.
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