There is a way
through this.

I was a family law attorney at a large law firm. I respected my colleagues, worked hard for my clients, and practiced the way I had been trained—the way I saw experienced attorneys around me practice.

Early on, when I saw outcomes that seemed bad for the people we were there to help, I was told that this was simply how the process worked. It wasn’t perfect. It wasn’t necessarily anyone’s fault. Over time, I learned to accept that explanation.

Then I went through a long and contentious divorce of my own.

I approached it the way I had learned to approach divorce as an attorney. But this time, I was the person living with the consequences. I spent well over $25,000 on attorneys and came away from a grueling case in a worse position than when I started. Looking back, I believe I would have reached a much better outcome had I been willing to cooperate from the beginning.

That experience forced me to recognize two things.

First, I had made a mistake. I had been closed off to working together, even though that possibility had been in my hands all along. My understanding of the law hadn’t helped me recognize what would actually serve me best.

Second, I couldn’t identify a firm I could have turned to for the kind of help I now understood I needed, at a price I could afford. The firms I knew either made that level of thoughtful, personal guidance too expensive or simply didn’t approach divorce that way.

That experience is why I founded Sona Legal.

Today, our commitment is to help people understand their choices before conflict and expense make those choices harder—and to model a better way to practice family law, one case at a time.

Sona Legal
Founder & Managing Attorney