She served as the President of the Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council from 2005 to 2006; she is a founding member and has been a board member since 2000. As a collaborative attorney, she attempts to lead her clients to dispute resolution, to mutual solutions via client-centered negotiation. Paula is also a trained Parent Coordinator and serves as a mediator/arbitrator for families after-divorce who need assistance avoiding conflict regarding their children. In addition, she teaches and lectures at trainings and speaking engagements about Collaborative Law and its applications in the family law and business law arenas.  Her practice emphasizes resolution and dialogue and relationships with and between clients, since most family law clients must and do have the need for continuing discourse with the "ex" (spouse, partner, in-law, grandparent, etc). 

Paula is a 1986 graduate of New England School of Law (with honors), where she was a New England Scholar and a participant in the special part-time student program which allowed her to attempt to seek balance and flexibility, a challenge which continues to this day. 

In some of her former lives, she has received a master's degree in English at Simmons College, has designed and administered job training programs at a regional vocational technical high school as one of two female administrators, has taught English to high school students and has been a playground director all of which have prepared her for the practice of law. She represented the husband in the precedent-setting Massachusetts custody of frozen embryos case, AZ v. BZ, which was ultimately decided by the SJC in her client's favor. She is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, in the District of Massachusetts and at the U.S. Supreme Court. 

For additional information on Paula H. Noe, please see her resume.

To contact Paula H. Noe, please email her at noe@bmenlaw.com.

"Modeling" in Collaborative Law: A Surmountable Challenge?, by Paula H. Noe, Esq.

' What Should We Do?'......The Choices for Divorcing Families, by Paula H. Noe, Esq.

NISI Problems, Part I:  New Trials: Amendment of Judgments -- Rule 59, by Paula H. Noe, Esq.

Couples and Clinics - Strange Bedfellows: Assisted Reproductive Technology and Privacy Rights, by Paula H. Noe, J.D., M.A., and Tina Z. Kraus, J.D., M.S.W.

A Textbook CL Divorce: Or CL Looks Easy When the Clients Totally 'Get It,' by Paula H. Noe, Esq. and David Hoffman, Esq.

The Bumpy Road to That Hug:  First Case Lessons, by Paula H. Noe, Esq. and Karen J. Levitt, Esq

FAMILY LAW (Divorce) ATTORNEYS

Doris Tennant, Esquire - Newton, MA.

Eileen Sorrentino, Esquire - Chicopee, MA.

Karen Levitt, Esquire - Lowell, MA

Lynda J. Robbins - Chelmsford, MA.

Daniel J. Finn, Esquire - Newton, MA.

Laurie Israel, Esquire - Brookline, MA.

Howard I. Goldstein, Esquire - Newton, MA

DIVORCE COACHES

Shel Miller, PhD - Brookline, MA.

Sanford M. Portnoy, PhD - Newton, MA.