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At Pines Laurent, LLP, in Studio City, California, we are devoted to family law issues of divorce, custody, property division and support, representing men and women throughout the San Fernando Valley, the Santa Clarita Valley and all of Los Angeles County, including Los Angeles, Studio City, Universal City, Sherman Oaks, Tarzana, Woodland Hills, Calabasas, Northridge, Simi Valley, Valencia, Pasadena, Glendale, Burbank, Beverly Hills, Chatsworth, Porter Ranch, Granada Hills and Valley Village.

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Pines Laurent, LLP

4400 Coldwater Canyon Ave.

Suite 220

Studio City, CA  91604

Phone: 818-505-8900

Fax:  818-505-9005

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Donna A. Laurent

Certified Family Law Specialist, State Bar of California

Donna graduated from Southwestern University School of Law, Summa Cum Laude, in May 1994. While at Southwestern, she earned American Jurisprudence Awards in Legal Research & Writing, Constitutional Law and Torts. She also received Corpus Juris Secundum Awards in Civil Procedure and Torts and an Outstanding Achievement Award in the International Protection of Human Rights. She was invited to Law Review and Moot Court, but chose, instead, to devote her non-school hours to raising her young son, who started kindergarten when she started law school.

 

Prior to attending law school, Donna earned a B.A. in Drama from the University of Virginia and spent several years acting in various professional theater companies.  Thereafter, she becane employed as the Director of Acquisitions for a private real estate owner/developer of multi-million dollar manufactured housing communities located throughout the United States. She held that position for several years and was responsible for acquiring properties valued at over $50,000,000. This background and experience provide Donna with unique skills which can be creatively utilized in both courtroom advocacy and in analyzing complex financial issues.

 

While still attending law school, Donna began volunteering in the Domestic Violence Clinic of the San Fernando Valley Neighborhood Legal Services. She has continued to advocate for domestic violence victims over the past 16 years and has a particular expertise in this area of family law.

 

In addition, Donna is highly experienced in the representation of parents of children with special needs, including children with autism, bipolar disorder, learning disabilities, ADHD, etc. As the parent of a special needs child herself, she brings personalized knowledge, empathy and an ability to develop and implement individualized parenting plans that best suit the unique needs of these children and their families. She has lectured extensively, both for various bar associations and for the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts on issues related to special needs children involved in family law proceedings.

 

Donna is also extremely active in local bar association activities and does volunteer work for the Los Angeles Superior Court's Family Law Departments in a number of capacities. She has sat as a Judge Pro Tem or temporary judge, in numerous family law courts throughout L.A. County since 2005. She is a volunteer family law mediator for the Van Nuys branch court. She and Cari M. Pines are currently Co-Chairs of the Executive Committee of the Family Law Section of the San Fernando Valley Bar Association (SFVBA) and prior Co-Chairs of the Family Law Section's Programs. She is a former Trustee of the SFVBA, a former Co-Chair of its Attorney Referral Service Committee, and a former member of its Bench/Bar and Diversity Committees, which included being an adult advisor/Committee Member of the Bar's Law and Government Explorer Post #1926 prior to the time the Bar's Board voted to end the program in the fall of 2010.

 

In her free time, Donna's hobbies include flower gardening & practicing meditation.

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