Charla has built a reputation as a strong and intelligent family law attorney known for her strategic and compassionate thinking and effectiveness in the courtroom. With over twenty years' experience, Charla has dedicated her legal practice exclusively to the area of family law because it provides an opportunity to assist clients facing the most stressful event in their lives. For Charla, representing a child, a wife who is also a mother or a husband who is also a father is not simply a legal or financial transaction, the well-being of an entire family is at stake. Charla received her J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law with high honors and graduated on the Dean's List with a B.A. in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received numerous accolades in law school including earning membership on the Stanley Moot Court Board, receiving the North Carolina State Bar Pro Bono Public Service Award and CALI Award for Academic Excellence, and serving as President of the Public Interest Law Organization Charla moved to Atlanta in 1998 after graduating law school, where she remains an actively involved member of several professional and bar association groups. She has been celebrated on Atlanta Magazine's Super Lawyer's lists since 2006, Georgia Trend Magazine's Legal Elite, and LawDragon's Top 500 Family Law Attorneys in the United States. Charla is a frequent author and lecturer on family law and trial practice, including currently holding a position as an Adjunct Professor at Georgia State University College of Law in Trial Advocacy. She is the co-author of the Georgia Domestic Relations Case Finder published by LexisNexis. Charla is certified in the practice of Collaborative Law and trained as a Guardian ad Litem. Charla is a mother and divorcee herself, so she understands the dynamics and emotions of divorce as well as the complexities of co-parenting.