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Angela Dunne

Renovation Reality

June 4, 2015 /
I am not sure what I was thinking, or if I was thinking, when I committed to buy a 121 year old building to renovate top to bottom. My law partner and I identified a physical space challenge as our firm continues to grow. The answer was easy – expand our physical space. So the next thing I know, I bought the old building next door to our existing space for expansion. I am several months into the on-going project and the parallels to divorce are too stark to be avoided or ignored. So I offer up the metaphorical insight
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Stage Fright

May 21, 2015 /
She looked up at me with a look I was not accustomed to seeing from my spunky Sophia. My normally precocious and extroverted little girl held insecurity and worry in her big brown eyes. At the ripe age of 8, she was suddenly shy as those feelings of stage fright started to take hold as I walked her to the backstage entrance for her very first dance recital. I squatted down to eye level, faced her toward me and took both of her hands in mine. I said, “You know what people like to see? It isn’t the dance steps
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Mom: A Tribute

May 7, 2015 /
I was 14 when I first felt my heart break. My one true love, Tommy, decided to move on as we left junior high for the greener pastures of high school. My stomach turned as I felt the upset of change, insecurity, and teenage despair wash over me. At a time when my mom regularly embarrassed me, she was who I turned to for comfort. She held my head in her lap as she stroked my hair and I sobbed.  My mom, during any time of uncertainty, would count down the hours for me. On the eve of the first
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Birthday Best

April 23, 2015 /
There I am on April 23, 1982, turning 7 years old, swirling and twirling and basking in bubbles.  Today I reach my fortieth milestone and I feel the same way about my birthday as I did back then.  I would be just as happy today swirling around in a pretty pink party dress, laughing as the bubbles popped around me. Birthdays mean many different things for people.  Some bemoan the addition of age and sigh as they see the wrinkles appearing around the edges of their eyes.  Others enjoy the loving attention they might receive from family and friends.  And
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March Madness

March 26, 2015 /
I am not, nor ever have been, a basketball player.  The one or two seasons I donned a basketball uniform in junior high, I felt like I was an accomplished player if I fouled out of the game.  Clearly, I didn’t have a clue what I was doing and I am not what people would call “athletic.”  I found my authentic match when I switched to a cheerleading uniform and all that required was good ol’ fashioned positivity.  That I could do. Despite that I know absolutely nothing about basketball, every March it becomes important to me.  The competitiveness of
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Pit and Peak: A Week in the Life of Co-Parenting

March 12, 2015 /
With 15+ years of being a divorce lawyer under my belt, I can say without hesitation that I am most often asked by my clients and people in general, about how I personally co-parent my children post-divorce. My former spouse and I share joint legal and physical custody of our school-age daughters and have for the last 4 years. Some people have commented, “You make it look easy.” The truth is, it isn’t easy and just like any parent couple knows, it comes with ups and downs. My former husband and his new family have a dinnertime ritual of debriefing
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DANGER: Dating During Divorce

February 26, 2015 /
Some days as I sit behind my desk in my well-worn leather chair, I feel like a fancy version of Lucy from the Peanuts cartoon.  Remember when she would hang her sign for “Psychiatric Help 5¢?”  Oftentimes clients seek practical advice from me.  Not so much the brilliant legal analysis that I am poised to provide, but the do’s and don’ts of divorce.  They want to know how to be a good parent in the face of divorce, if they should sell their house considering their changing financial picture, or how to decide where the family dog should live. But
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Freedom to Marry

February 19, 2015 /
Today our legal team will advocate in federal court on behalf of our client couples for the Freedom to Marry in Nebraska.  This is a deeply meaningful day for me, for our clients, and for my firm family.  I repost here the blog I wrote when we filed the lawsuit explaining why this work expands my heart.  As one person said to me after reading this blog originally  “This is the kind of case that we go to law school for.”  Yes. It is. On Monday, November 17, 2014, our firm, along with the ACLU, filed a lawsuit in federal
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Snow Day

February 5, 2015 /
This morning I awoke before the sun.  The sky was somehow tinged pink, having discarded its usual black, to cast an illumination on the snow falling.  Everything was still and quiet as the snow gave its salute to serenity.  I sat still for the better part of an hour watching the snowflakes fall against the pink backdrop fading to gray with the start of the day.  It was a snow day. My daughter excitedly sent me a message full of exclamation points at 7:24 a.m. when she learned the news.  I coordinated my work team on when we could safely
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Pursuing Patience

January 22, 2015 /
When I was born, my blood was spiked with a tad bit of Irish.  I celebrate Irish lineage from both my dad’s Dunne side and my mom’s Griffin side.  As a result, I have been known to have a short fuse.  More specifically, the patience gene was apparently left out of my DNA.  Now, I do not want to give the impression that I have a hard time waiting my turn in line or sitting in traffic.  Those scenarios tend not to bother me, because I can always see that my turn will come and I can gauge that it
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