Amy Halbrook

Amy Halbrook is an attorney and mediator with extensive experience representing children, parents, and families across a wide range of legal matters. Her practice includes divorce, custody, child support, spousal maintenance, and asset division, as well as complex cases involving child protection, high‑conflict parenting disputes, juvenile justice, school discipline, and special education. Whether advocating in court or guiding clients through mediation, Amy brings a steady, practical, and solutions‑oriented approach to every case she handles.

In 2011, Amy moved to Kentucky to become the founding director of the NKU Chase Children’s Law Center Clinic. Over the next decade, she represented hundreds of children throughout Northern Kentucky in custody, child welfare, domestic violence, juvenile, criminal, and education matters—work that shaped her thoughtful, child‑centered approach to family law.

A certified family law mediator in both Kentucky and Ohio, Amy is known for helping parties identify what truly matters, explore creative options, and work toward durable, mutually acceptable resolutions. She values the collaborative nature of mediation and is particularly skilled at helping clients move from conflict toward constructive problem‑solving.

In addition to her legal practice, Amy serves as a Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Experiential Learning at Northern Kentucky University’s Chase College of Law. She also trains attorneys nationwide through the American Bar Association’s Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence and the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, and serves as faculty for NKU’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Center.

Amy is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and Northwestern University School of Law. She is admitted to practice in Kentucky, Illinois, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Northern District of Illinois, and the United States Supreme Court, and is a member of the American Bar Association, the Kentucky Bar Association, and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts.

Amy lives in Cincinnati with her partner, Dan; her college‑aged son; and an assortment of domestic rescue animals. Outside of work, she enjoys backpacking, reading, gardening, Zumba, and any opportunity—whenever it arises—to touch an elephant.