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Recognized in 2005 by Virginia Business magazine as one of Virginia’s “Legal Elite,” and as a “Super Lawyer” in 2006 and 2007 by Richmond magazine, Colleen Marea Quinn has provided representation to hundreds of adopting parents, birth parents, adoptees, intended parents, surrogates, gestational carriers and egg donors since 1989. Ms. Quinn, after graduating from the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia Law School in 1988, served as a clerk with the Chief Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court, The Hon. Harry L. Carrico. She is a Fellow, and on the Board of Trustees, of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys (“AAAA”), a select group of attorneys with rigorous standards for membership, speaks frequently at AAAA Annual Meetings, was Chairperson of the AAAA 2007 Annual Convention, serves on the AAAA ARTS Committee, and was Chairperson of the Birth Parents Representation Committee from 1999 to 2003. In 2003, she published the “Representing Birth Parents Handbook” for the AAAA. She served as program chair and moderator for the first Lorman Adoption Seminar in 1997 and the first Virginia Continuing Legal Education Adoption Law Seminar in 1999 and for all subsequent adoption programs.
Ms. Quinn has qualified and served as an expert witness in adoption law in the Virginia court system. She is certified as a Guardian ad Litem under the Virginia mandatory court procedures and receives regular continuing legal education training to maintain both her status in the AAAA and as a court approved Guardian ad Litem.
Colleen Marea Quinn is a director and equity owner in the law firm of Cantor Arkema, P.C. and has achieved an “AV” rating, the highest given, by Martindale Hubbell. She is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America. Her other memberships include the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, the Richmond Bar Association, Virginia State Bar, the American Association for Justice and the Metropolitan Richmond Women's Bar Association, of which she is a Board member and Chairperson of the Judicial Candidate Endorsement Committee.
A strong believer in community involvement, Ms. Quinn devotes time and energy to various civic activities such as the YWCA, serving on its Advisory Committee, and as a former board member and board president. She also has worked with Leadership Metro Richmond, of which she is a 1996 graduate. She was named in 1999 by Inside Business Magazine as one of “Richmond’s Top 40 Under 40.” She has served as a volunteer coach for the Richmond Strikers Soccer League and for Destination Imagination, and she teaches aerobics.
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