Alexandra Harwin

Family transitions have lifelong implications, and Alexandra Harwin believes in getting them right the first time around. A graduate of Harvard College and the Yale Law School, Alexandra puts her excellent communication, advocacy, and counseling skills to work for every client. Throughout each representation, she is a reassuring and supportive presence, helping individuals manage feelings of dislocation and distress and move towards stable and sustainable solutions.

Alexandra is a strong advocate of educating clients about their legal rights and responsibilities, so they can make informed decisions for their futures. Long interested in family and gender issues, she writes for popular audiences on current developments in family law and has been published in the New York Times and Slate.

Alexandra was the highest-ranked student in her graduating class at Harvard, where she wrote her honors thesis on feminist strategies for evaluating the economic value of women’s unpaid housework. Alexandra went on to serve as Managing Editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism and as a member of Yale’s Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic, researching international child abduction and the eligibility of posthumously-conceived children for federal benefits.