| Name: | Sherry Leichman, Esquire |
| Firm name: | Leichman & Snyder, P.C. |
| E-mail address: | Sherry414@aol.com |
| Web address: | leichmansnyderlaw.com |
| Phone number: | (301) 545-1840 |
| Fax number: | (301) 545-1842 |
| Address: | 51 Monroe Place, Suite 1605 Rockville, Maryland 20850 |
Sherry Leichman is a partner in the firm Leichman & Snyder, P.C. and practices exclusively family law. She has been a member of Maryland Bar since 1985 and the District of Columbia Bar since 2001 and has a wealth of experience in all areas of family law and litigation. She is on the Executive Committee of the Collaborative Dispute Resolution Professionals and serves as the facilitator of the Education Committee. She has handled several collaborative divorce cases and is also a trained divorce mediator, as well as trained as a mediator for the Montgomery Circuit Court Juvenile Court. Ms. Leichman also practices adoptions law and handles both child and adult guardianships. Formerly with The Lewis Law Firm, a prominent domestic relations law firm in the District of Columbia, Ms. Leichman prepared complicated property settlement agreements, negotiated and litigated child custody cases, divorces, monetary awards, adoptions and other family law matters. Ms. Leichman was an Associate County Attorney for Montgomery County, Maryland, for twelve years serving for 10 years as in-house counsel for the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, representing Child Welfare Services in neglect and abuse cases and handling all the adoptions of foster children. She was also the Chief Counsel for the code enforcement unit for two years, as well as counsel to adult protective services for 12 years. Ms. Leichman served as judicial law clerk to the Honorable Douglas Moore, Jr., and Honorable John Tracey, both retired judges of the Montgomery County Juvenile Court.
Ms. Leichman received her Bachelor of Science from Boston University
and her Juris Doctorate from Antioch School of Law. She is a member of the United
States Supreme Court Bar, Maryland State Bar Association, the District of Columbia
Bar Association, the Montgomery County Bar Association, the Maryland Women’s
Bar Association and the District of Columbia Women’s Bar Association. In
addition to being on the Executive Committee of the Collaborative Dispute Professionals,
she is also on the Executive Board of the Montgomery County Women’s Bar,
a member of the Montgomery County Bar Family Law Section and a member of the
Collaborative Law Society.
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