Our Team : Lynn Holland Goldman

Lynn Holland Goldman

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Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think – A.A Milne

CONTACT

p. 404 442-6969, ext. 3

PRACTICES

  • Adoption
  • Surrogacy
  • Egg, Sperm, Embryo Donation
  • LGBT Family Building
  • Guardian ad Litem
  • Mediation
  • DFCS Custody

EDUCATION

B.A. from the University of Alabama, cum laude

J.D. from the University of Georgia

BAR ADMISSIONS

Georgia 1998

VOLUNTEER WORK

  • Founding Member of WISH (Wo/Men Infertility Support Havurah)
  • Youth Villages Leadership Board
  • The Bridge- board member
  • Cobb County CASA program board member

MEMBERSHIPS

  • Georgia Association of Counsel for Children
  • Child Protection and Advocacy Section of the State Bar of Georgia

Lynn Goldman is a leader in creating Georgia’s public policies and laws affecting children. She joined the firm in 2014 after building a career as a child welfare lawyer and mediator for over 17 years. After experiencing infertility herself in 2002 she was excited to work with other families on their family-building journey. Lynn is a partner with Claiborne| Fox| Bradley| Goldman. Her practice specializes in adoption and fertility law (including surrogacy and gamete donation).

She is a member of the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys as well as the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, where she serves on the Legal Professionals Board. She also is a founding board member of the Jewish Fertility Foundation, which provides support, education and grants to those experiencing infertility. Lynn serves as a board member for the Georgia Council of Adoption Attorneys.

Lynn’s passion for family law began long before attending law school. Upon graduation from the University of Alabama with a degree in Social Work, Lynn worked as a child protection case manager with the Clayton County Department of Family and Children Services. As a case manager, Lynn approved the first same sex adoption in Clayton County in 1994.

Wanting to be a greater advocate for Georgia’s children, Lynn attended law school at the University of Georgia. While at UGA, she published an article on Munchausen by Proxy in the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Journal.

Upon graduation, Lynn began her legal career as an attorney with the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, where she handled a variety of cases including domestic violence divorces, child welfare cases, public benefit appeals and landlord tenant issues. During her years at Legal Aid, Ms. Goldman successfully defended a dependency case before the Georgia Court of Appeals.

From 2005 until 2010 Lynn served as the Managing Attorney for the One Child, One Lawyer Program where she trained, mentored, and supervised attorneys who volunteered to serve as child advocates in dependency cases.

Lynn became a registered dependency, delinquency and domestic relations mediator with the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution. She has been mediating for the past 11 years throughout Georgia.

As Lynn’s reputation for being an effective mediator grew, she was given a grant with the Supreme Court Committee on Justice for Children to promote the use of mediation in Georgia’s juvenile courts. Her grant has been renewed for the past five years. With this grant Lynn has drafted Georgia’s laws on juvenile mediation and developed guidelines and training requirements for juvenile mediators. She has testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, helped to develop mediation programs throughout Georgia and has trained countless judges, attorneys and mediators on the use of mediation in juvenile court.

Lynn also recently served as the Program Coordinator for the Fulton Juvenile Court Deprivation Mediation Program, where she supervised mediators who handled deprivation and guardianship termination cases.

Lynn has practiced adoption and fertility law for the last 11 years and is a partner at Clai.

On multiple occasions Lynn served as a legal expert and guest commentator for “In Session” television on cases involving child abuse prosecutions.

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