Amy Halbrook is an attorney and mediator. She has broad experience in litigation and alternative dispute resolution. She addresses all issues related to divorce, custody, child support, spousal support, spousal maintenance, division of assets, and other financial matters.

Amy has worked with families and children involved in court since the 1990s. She started her professional career as the Director of Youth Services for a youth court program in Oakland, California. After law school, she practiced commercial litigation at Vedder Price in Chicago. She later completed clinical fellowships in Loyola University of Chicago’s Civitas ChildLaw Clinic and Northwestern University School of Law’s Children and Family Justice Center. Amy moved her practice to Kentucky to become the founding director of the NKU Chase Children’s Law Center Clinic in 2011. Through the Clinic, she represented hundreds of Northern Kentucky children in matters including high-conflict custody, child welfare, domestic violence, juvenile, criminal, and education matters.

Amy is a certified family law mediator. She is qualified to mediate in Kentucky and Ohio. She loves helping parties to identify the issues they want to resolve, explore possible solutions, engage in shared problem-solving, and attempt to come to a settlement. She is known to be practical and creative when resolving conflicts.

Amy is a Professor of Law at Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University. She regularly teaches Family Law, Family Law Mediation, Juvenile Law, and several other courses. In addition, she is the lead faculty member for the trial skills training programs offered by the American Bar Association’s Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence. She is also a family mediation trainer for Northern Kentucky University’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Center.

Amy is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and Northwestern University School of Law. She is a member of the American Bar Association, the Kentucky Bar Association, and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. She is the current President of the Board of Community and Restorative Justice-Covington which helps people solve community problems outside of court.

Amy lives in Cincinnati with her partner, Dan, her teenage son, a pug, an English Bulldog, and two cats. She enjoys horses, reading, working in the yard, and doing Zumba.