Leigh-Anne Mulrey is an attorney at Weinberger Divorce & Family Law Group, LLC. Over the course of her sixteen-year career, Ms. Mulrey has built an exemplary reputation as a skilled and compassionate lawyer who fights wholeheartedly to ensure the fair treatment of both her clients and their children, and safeguard their essential rights.
Recognizing the life-altering consequences that invariably accompany family law matters, Ms. Mulrey provides legal representation that focuses on creative solutions and methodical strategies to address and pursue her clients’ unique needs and goals. Having experienced the triumphs and tribulations of the dissolution of her own parents’ marriage amongst four siblings immersed in the process, she advocates passionately and vigorously for amicable and reasonable resolutions. Ms. Mulrey’s utmost priority is ensuring that her clients receive the best protection and representation possible. She is dedicated to navigating her clients and their children through such trying times with empathy and determination.
Although her paramount goal is to achieve a non-litigious resolution, should there be a need to proceed with litigation in any separation, divorce, custody, or domestic violence dispute, Ms. Mulrey will leave no stone unturned. Fueled by her tireless commitment and diligence, her extensive litigation and appellate experiences has enabled her to provide positive resolutions to the great satisfaction and benefit of her clients.
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In addition to her matrimonial practice, Ms. Mulrey has gained vast experience in the defense of both state and federal criminal offenses since the conclusion of her clerkship with the New Jersey Supreme Court. She has handled matters of varying degree and complexity from the investigatory and charging phase up through and including trial and sentencing and defended white-collar and non-white collar cases alike in the state and federal courts of New Jersey and New York.
As a result of the experience she has gained, Ms. Mulrey possess a thorough understanding of the complexities of litigation. Every case, every client, and every circumstance is different, and effective advocacy depends in each matter on the consideration, pursuit, and exhaustion of each and every angle of prosecution and defense.
Ms. Mulrey is highly experienced in all aspects of New Jersey family law, including divorce, child custody, alimony, child support, equitable distribution, complex asset valuation, adoptions, domestic violence, and all other family law matters. She has been described as both a bulldog and an angel in light of her unwavering compassion and dedication to her clients and the relief she adamantly pursues and successfully obtains on their behalf. Ms. Mulrey has assisted victims of domestic violence in seeking protection from abuse, in addition to defending clients against false allegations of abuse. She has also, and with equal zeal, handled claims of child abuse and neglect. Her zeal for helping clients through such critical times is resolute and reflected in her volunteer work for Partners for Women and Justice, a non-profit organization that provides free legal help to low income, abused women in New Jersey in domestic violence and family law matters.
In addition to her extensive litigation background, Ms. Mulrey has developed great proficiency in the area of appellate practice and procedure, having appeared before the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey, the Supreme Court of New Jersey and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Ms. Mulrey’s training, legal research and writing skills, as well as her educational and professional experiences, have rendered her an effective appellate advocate, skilled at identifying and pursuing the best appellate grounds to ensure the greatest chance of success on appeal.
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As a unique benefit to clients who may also need help in criminal law matters that accompany or transcend a family related matter, Ms. Mulrey has developed vast knowledge and skill as a criminal litigator at both the state and federal level. Following her clerkship with the New Jersey Supreme Court, she handled matters of varying degree and complexity from the investigatory and charging phase up through and including trial and sentencing in the defense of white-collar and non-white collar cases alike in the state and federal courts of both New Jersey and New York.
Ms. Mulrey is a graduate of Rutgers School of Law – Newark. a published author and law lecturer, and has been named to the New Jersey Super Lawyers, Rising Star list for over a decade. She was previously a member of the New Jersey State Policeman’s Benevolent Association as an Approved Attorney.
Fueled by undying commitment and diligence, Ms. Mulrey consistently implements logical and lateral resolutions in her pursuit of justice for her clients. Her approach has repeatedly proven to successfully resolve disputes in court and otherwise in a creative and efficacious manner.