Who am I:  After over 30 years as a corporate, utility and securities attorney (former Associate General Counsel for Colunbia Gas System), I took a short leave of absence from the practice of law.  I have now returned and have been studying and working in the area of elder law since November 2008. Since that time I have:

• completed over 18 hours of advanced elder mediation training with the Montgomery Conflict Mediation Center (wwww.montcomediation.org) to add to the basic mediation training I received through the Delaware Superior Court program and acted as mediator in three guardianship cases before the Delaware Court of Chancery and volunteered for DVLS a number of times in mortgage foreclosure mediations
• been a volunteer with Delaware Volunteer Legal Services (DVLS) (guardianships, wills, powers of attorney, advance health-care directives and Miller Trusts) and been certified as an adult guardian by the National Guardianship Association
• been a member of the Committee (now Section) on the Law and the Elderly of the Delaware Bar Association and volunteer Secretary since September 2009. I co-ordinated the input from nine other attorneys to create an updated Legal Handbook for Older Delawareans and I created an interactive webpage (link listed below) to make the update widely accessible. I also contributed the discussion of "Reverse Mortgages and Alternatives" included in the Handbook.

address: 
1011 Quail Court,
West Grove PA 19390
Phone:610-869-3933
cell:302-299-6331
email: elderlawde@gmail.com