Professional Background

Alice (Ali) Dansker Doyle, Esquire, has focused her practice on the Collaborative resolution of family law issues. Educated as an attorney, and trained as a Collaborative professional, a mediator, and a parent coordinator, Ms. Doyle uses her skills to assist families in the areas of child custody and parental access plans, support issues, property dispositions and other divorce and separation-related issues. She is committed to working with families to resolve such issues in a less contentious fashion while increasing communication between parents to benefit the children.

Ms. Doyle is so dedicated to the concept of assisting families to civilly resolve issues involved in custody, divorce and related disputes that she partnered to establish Collaborative Training Solutions, Inc., (CTS) a company completely separate from her law and mediation practice. CTS provides trainings and other professional resources related to Collaborative resolution. The trainings include various practice areas, including family, business and mediation and are designed to increase and strengthen the number of Collaboratively trained professionals in the mental health, financial and legal fields so that Collaborative practice can become a viable and wide-spread alternative dispute resolution process.

Born and reared in the Midwest, Ms. Doyle earned her undergraduate degrees from the University of Cincinnati in Law Enforcement Technology (1976) and Urban Administration (1980), and her graduate degree (M.S.Ed.) in Counseling Psychology in May 1983 from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. After working in various capacities in the legal field, including employment as an Adult (Felony) Probation Officer with the Wood County, Ohio Common Pleas Court, and as a Court Staff Investigator for the Clermont County, Ohio Common Pleas Court (Domestic Relations Division), Ms. Doyle attended the University Of Baltimore School Of Law, where she graduated with a JD in 2003. Ms. Doyle has continued her education through trainings and membership in multiple professional organizations. Ms. Doyle is a member of the Bar of Maryland, the Bar of the District of Columbia and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Ms. Doyle currently resides in Carroll County, Maryland, with her husband, Michael, a patent draftsman/technical illustrator and military artist.

Education

University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland. J.D. January 2003
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. M.S.Ed. May 1983 - Counseling Psychology
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. B.S. June 1980 - Urban Administration
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. A.S. December 1976 - Law Enforcement Technology

Professional Experience

Custody Evaluator, Janary, 2008 - present.
Parent Coordinator and Mediator, December, 2006 – present.
Attorney, June 2003 – November 2004; May, 2006 – present. Private practice; Domestic Relations matters and Collaborative Family Law emphasis.
Attorney, Silverstein & Ostovitz, LLC, December 2004 – April, 2006. Associate in firm with Domestic Relations emphasis.
Legal Assistant/Paralegal, William A. Stearns, Priscilla S. O'Donnell, Attorneys at Law, Batavia, Ohio. May 1990 - January 1998.
Court Staff Investigator, Clermont County, Ohio Common Pleas Court, Domestic Relations Division, November 1988 - October 1989.
Adult Probation Officer, Wood County, Ohio Common Pleas Court, July 1985 - October 1988.

Bar Admissions

Maryland; June, 2003
District of Columbia; February, 2004
Supreme Court of the United States, November, 2007

Memberships

Women's Bar Association
Baltimore County Bar Association
Bar Association of the District of Columbia
Carroll County Bar Association
Howard County Bar Association
Maryland State Bar Association
Carroll County Collaborative Practice Group
Howard County Collaborative Professionals
Maryland Collaborative Practice Council
International Academy of Collaborative Professionals
Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
The University of Cincinnati (Ohio) Alumni Association