Ariel Sosna
Van Voorhis & Sosna LLP
Ariel Sosna is a founding partner of Van Voorhis & Sosna LLP. She is certified as a specialist in Family Law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. Ms. Sosna has been exclusively practicing family law in California (San Francisco Bay Area) since 2007.
Ms. Sosna received her J.D., with a concentration in Family Law, from U.C. Hastings School of the Law and her B.A. in Psychology from U.C. Berkeley.
Before starting her own practice, Ms. Sosna was an associate at a well-known San Francisco law firm. She was co-chairperson of the Family Law Section of the San Francisco Bar Association's Barristers Club in 2009 and 2010. For the past nine consecutive years (2009-2017), Super Lawyers magazine named her a family law Rising Star after a confidential balloting process by members of the Bar. In 2013, Ms. Sosna completed the Center for Understanding in Conflict 40-hour Mediation Intensive Training Program. Ms. Sosna previously worked at the San Francisco Superior Court Family Law Facilitator's Office, the Law Center for Families (assisting with the Deaf Women's Legal Project), and the Center for Families, Children and the Courts, a division of the Administrative Office of the Courts. She was also a research assistant for Professor Weisberg contributing to "Modern Family Law: Cases and Materials and California Family Code and Related Provisions with Commentary."
- University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
- J.D. | Concentration in Family Law
- Honors: Pro Bono Publico Award, Public Interest Law Certificate, Dan Bradley Fellowship
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- University of California - Berkeley
- B.A. | Psychology
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- Founding Partner
- Van Voorhis & Sosna LLP
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- Barrister Club Involvement Leads to Founding of a Firm
- The Bar Association of San Francisco Bulletin, Volume 4, Number 12
- Family Law Corner
- The Bar Association of San Francisco Bulletin
- Association of Certified Family Law Specialists
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- Northern California Super Lawyers
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- California State Bar # 249883
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- American Bar Association
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- San Francisco Bar Association
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- Queen's Bench
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- San Francisco Bar Association's Barristers Club
- Co-chairperson of the Family Law section
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