Sarah Novak Nesbitt is the Managing Attorney of Family Law at the Family Legal Advocacy Group, L.L.C.  Prior to that position, Sarah was an associate with Weinberg & Schwartz, L.L.C.  Sarah’s practice focuses on collaborative divorce, advising clients in mediation, representation of children in contested cases, estate planning, adoption, guardianship of children, and litigation. Sarah has been an at-large board member for the Howard County Chapter of the Women’s Bar Association since 2010, is a regular volunteer at the Family Law Clinic at the Circuit Court for Howard County, and is a member of the Howard County Collaborative Professionals, the Howard County Bar Association, and the Maryland State Bar Association.

Sarah graduated cum laude from the University of Maryland School of Law in 2009, where she won the Maryland Public Interest Law Project Pro Bono Student of the Year award for her work in starting a pro bono project for law students in partnership with Project HEAL through the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service and Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. While in law school, Ms. Nesbitt worked as a volunteer with domestic violence victims through the House of Ruth and focused her academic work on courses such as Domestic Violence and the Law, Children and the Law, Children and Divorce, Mediation in Family Law, and Families, Contracts, and Status. Sarah’s work in law school also focused on alternative dispute resolution options for families, including collaborative law. As an undergraduate student, Sarah studied family dynamics and infant and child development, and she graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame with degrees in psychology and sociology. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Nesbitt worked as a full time volunteer teacher at a scholarship school for low-income middle school boys in Baltimore City. In 2011, 2012, and 2013, Sarah was named as a Super Lawyers Rising Star for her work in family law.