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Biography

Ms. Casale, a litigator, concentrates her practice in the area of domestic relations law, including child custody, divorce, support, adoption, property distribution, abuse actions and domestic partnership disputes.  Ms. Casale has successfully argued in the Pennsylvania and New Jersey appellate courts on issues regarding custody, equitable distribution and alimony.

She is a 1994 graduate of Rutgers University School of Law-Camden, where she received the National Association of Women Lawyers Award.  She received her B.A. in Communications from Lynchburg College, where she graduated cum laude in 1990.  Ms. Casale served as a law clerk for the Honorable Martin A. Herman, Superior Court of New Jersey, Family Division, from 1994-1995.  She is admitted to the Bars of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Education

Rutgers University School of Law, Camden, New Jersey, 1994
J.D.

Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1990
B.A.
Major:  Communications

Clerkship

The Honorable Martin A. Herman, Superior Court of New Jersey, Family Division, 1994-1995

Honors and Awards

Philadelphia Business Journal 40 Under 40 Award, 2006
Pennsylvania Law Weekly – Lawyers on the Fast Track Honoree, 2005
National Association of Women Lawyers Award, 1994

Publications

• Author of numerous articles for Pennsylvania Bar Institute publications on various topics, including Equitable Distribution Updates, Custody Updates, Same-Sex Custody Issues, and Same-Sex Dissolution/Adoption Issues
• “New Definition of Family,” Philadelphia Magazine (Fall issue, 2005)
• The Rainbow Tribune, Newsletters for GLB&T Committee of the New Jersey State Bar Association
• Article regarding reaction to In re: R.B.F., Legal Intelligencer (2001)

Professional Associations and Memberships

Co-Chair, Pennsylvania Bar Association, Committee on the Legal Rights of Gay Men and Lesbians
Member, Family Law Sections of the American, Pennsylvania and New Jersey State Bar Associations
Member, New Jersey Bar Association
Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association
Member, Montgomery Bar Association
Member, Camden County Bar Association Family Law Committee
Member, Nicholas A. Cipriani American Inn of Court

Community

Member, Interbranch Commission for Racial, Gender and Ethnic Fairness
CHOICE Board of Directors, Executive Committee Member

Teaching / Lecturing

Frequent Pennsylvania Bar Institute speaker on a variety of family law topics
Frequent presentations to Montgomery Bar Association Family Law Section
Speaker at Annual Trial Judges Judicial Conference on same-sex custody issues (July 2006)
Philadelphia Bar Association Bench Bar Conference – Speaker on Same-Sex Marriage Issues (Fall 2005)
Philadelphia Bar Association – Speaker to the Committee for Unrelated Cohabitants (2005)

Bar Admissions

New Jersey, 1994
Pennsylvania, 1994
United States District Court, Eastern District of New Jersey, 1994
United States Supreme Court, 2004