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Adoption; Assisted Reproductive Technology Law

Locke Partin DeBoer & Quinn

4928 West Broad Street

Richmond, VA 23230-6253

Telephone (804) 285-6253

Fax (804) 545-9400

E-mail:  

Website:  www.virginia-adoption-attorney.com

Colleen Marea Quinn has provided representation to hundreds of adopting parents, birth parents, adoptees, intended parents, surrogates, gestational carriers and egg donors since 1989. Ms. Quinn, after graduating from the College of William and Mary College and the University of Virginia Law School, served as a clerk with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, The Hon. Harry L. Carrico. She is a member of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys (AAAA), a select group of attorneys with rigorous standards for membership. She serves on the AAAA ARTS Committee. In 1999, she was appointed Chairperson of the Birth Parents Representation Committee. In that capacity, in 2003 she published the Representing Birth Parents Handbook and presented the Ethical Representation of Birth Parents program. She served as program chair and moderator for the first annual Lorman Adoption Seminar in 1997 and for the first Virginia Continuing Legal Education Adoption Law Seminar in 1999 and for all subsequent adoption programs with Lorman and Virginia CLE to the present. In 2004, she was a contributing writer to Adoptive Families magazine.

 Ms. Quinn has qualified and served as an expert witness in adoption law in the Virginia court system. She also is certified as a Guardian ad Litem under the Virginia mandatory court procedures and receives regular continuing legal education training to maintain both her status in the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys and as a court approved Guardian ad Litem.

 Her other memberships include the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, the Richmond Bar Association, Virginia State Bar, and the Metropolitan Richmond Women's Bar Association. Ms. Quinn is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in Virginia.

 A strong believer in community involvement, Ms. Quinn devotes time and energy to various civic activities such as the YWCA, serving on its Advisory and Nominating committees, as chair of the Personnel Task Force, and as a former board member and board president. She is a 1996 graduate of Leadership Metro Richmond. She was one of the 1999 Inside Business Magazine's Richmond’s Top 40 Under 40; she serves as a volunteer team coach for Richmond Strikers Soccer League, serves as a volunteer coach for Destination Imagination, and teaches aerobics.

Colleen Marea Quinn, Esq.
Adoption/Assisted Reproductive Technology Law Presentations & Publications
 

 Has qualified as an expert witness in the area of adoption law in the Commonwealth of Virginia courts.

Qualified as an expert witness in the area of adoption law in the Commonwealth of Virginia courts.

Locke Partin DeBoer & Quinn
4928 West Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23230-6253
Telephone (804) 285-6253
Fax (804) 545-9400
E-mail:
Website:  www.virginia-adoption-attorney.com

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