Lisa Zonder
Top rated Family Law attorney in Calabasas, California
Zonder Family Law Group, A Professional Corporation
Practice Areas: Family Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution; view more
Licensed in California since: 1991
Education: Whittier Law School
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2007 - 2013, 2017 - 2025 Call today:
805-918-1277
Zonder Family Law Group, A Professional Corporation
26565 W Agoura RdSuite 200
Calabasas, CA 91302 Visit website
Details
For over 24 years (since 1999), Lisa Zonder has been certified as a specialist in family law by the Board of Legal Specialization of The State Bar of California. As the founder of the Zonder Family Law Group, A Professional Corporation, she focuses her practice entirely on these types of concerns, representing clients throughout LA, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties with her headquarter office in Calabasas.
Ms. Zonder has extensive training and experience in both divorce mediation and collaborative divorce law. She has been able to help her clients avoid protracted and often bitter courtroom disputes and instead reach an accord in most of her cases. This includes disputes regarding parenting time, spousal and child support, and the division of complex marital assets and debts through the use of those methods of alternative dispute resolution. However, when litigation proves to be necessary, Ms. Zonder leads up her firm's litigation team to be forceful advocate on their behalf.
Zonder served as former President to CP Cal, a statewide Collaborative Divorce professional group. She has hosted consumer workshops for Second Saturday and is an invited speaker for numerous wealth management and mental health professional events. Ms. Zonder has had articles published in the Daily Journal on the topic of mediation confidentiality. Recently, she trained to be a CDC Certified Divorce Coach® and a CDC Divorce Transition and Recovery Coach®
Ms. Zonder has also assisted clients who have already seen their marriages legally dissolved but who now need to have previous support or parenting court orders enforced or modified. Her colleagues have taken note of her accomplishments both in and outside of the courtroom, and she has received a 10.0 “Superb” rating through Avvo and has been selected her for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America. A graduate of Whittier Law School, Ms. Zonder is admitted to practice in California, New York and the District of Columbia and before the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
Practice areas
Family Law, Alternative Dispute ResolutionFocus areas
Alimony & Spousal Support, Child Support, Custody & Visitation, Dissolution, Divorce, Marital Property, Mediation, Mediation & Collaborative Law
- 80% Family Law
- 20% Alternative Dispute Resolution
First Admitted: 1991, California
Professional Webpage: https://zonderfamilylaw.com/attorney-lisa-zonder/
- Member, Ventura County Bar Association, Family Law Section, 2024
- Member, Beverly Hills Bar Association, 2023
- California State Bar, Family Law Section, 1991
- Current, Academy Professional Family Mediators (APFM), Founding Member, 2013
- Former, Coalition for Collaborative Divorce (CCD), Executive Board Member, 2013
- Los Angeles County Bar Association, Member, 2012
- California State Bar. Admitted to practice in Washington D.C. and New York State, 1991
- Former, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), Member, 2013
- Former, International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP), Member, 2004
- Former, Los Angeles Collaborative Family Law Association (LACFLA), Member, 2012
- Former Member, 2003-2013, North County San Diego Bar Association, Family Law and Specialists Sections, 2003
- Former, Southern California Mediation Association (SCMA), Member, 2013
- Ventura County Bar Association, Family Law Section, 2012
- Former Member, 2003-2013, San Diego County Bar Association, Family Law Specialists, 2003
- Former, Coalition for Collaborative Divorce (CCD), Member and Board of Directors, 2012
- Advanced Mediation Training Certificate, Forrest (Woody) Mosten, American Institute of Mediation, 2010
- Certified Family Law Specialist (CFLS), State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization, 2024
- Train the Trainer Collaborative Divorce Team Trainings and Shadow Trainer, Skirball Center, (CDTT and CDI), 2013
- Former for many years, Volunteer Attorney-Mediator/Daily Settlement Officer (DSO) for Ventura Superior Court, 2012
- Former, Volunteer Attorney-Mediator/Daily Settlement Officer (DSO) for Van Nuys Superior Court, 2012
- Former, Volunteer Attorney-Mediator/Daily Settlement Officer (DSO) for Los Angeles Superior Court - Stanley Mosk Courthouse, 2012
- Los Angeles/Ventura Super Lawyers 2007 through 2023., Super Lawyers, Super Lawyers, 2024
- Shadow Trainer, Streamlined Protocols (Collaborative Divorce), CDI Skirball Center, June 2013.
- Authored, Collaborative Divorce Differs From Litigation: Assessing Whether the CD Model is Appropriate, Aspatore Publications, Thomas-Reuters, 2013.
- Faculty, Lecturer for Wife.org and Second Saturday, 2013; Lecturer at Second Saturday Divorce Workshops (portion of proceeds are donated to Wife.org).
- Divorce Talk Radio Show Host (2013 to 2014) "Divorce: Lisa Zonder Style" on Ventura's talk radio station KVTA 1590 AM. Radio host and show producer for more than six months. Show is currently on hiatus, 2013
- Chair of Programming, Collaborative Practices (CP Cal) 2015 Celebration 10 - Annual Statewide Conference, 2014
- Board of Directors, April 2014, Collaborative Practice California (CP Cal), 2014
- Co-Chair of Programming, Collaborative Practices (CP Cal) 2014 Celebration 9 - Annual Statewide Conference, Expanding Our Community: Bringing Together Diverse Sources of Wisdom, 2013
- CP Cal President-Elect for statewide Collaborative Divorce professionals group., 2016
- Collaborative Practice California
- divorce negotiation
- Mediation
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 2007 - 2013, 2017 - 2025
