Liane Davis Anderson
Offices of Maribeth Blessing
Address: 310 Huntingdon Pike, Rockledge, PA 19046
Phone: 215-663-9016
Fax: 215-663-9019
Email: landerson@mbfamilylaw.com
Liane Davis Anderson focuses her legal practice exclusively in the area of family law through advocacy, mediation, and collaborative law in Montgomery, Philadelphia, and Bucks Counties. She handles all phases of settlement, negotiations, and litigation if necessary. Liane’s primary focus and philosophy is to focus on client’s broader goals and interests in moving them forward with compassion and understanding, hopefully bringing them to a peaceful resolution.
Liane graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1986 with degrees in International Politics and Latin American Studies and went on to the Peace Corps serving as a volunteer in Guatemala. Thereafter, she attended Temple University where she continued her focus on helping people working in the Temple Legal Aid Clinic and the Homeless Advocacy Project, graduating in 1993. Post law school, Liane worked with the Fair Housing Council of Montgomery County fighting housing discrimination. Liane has an interest in truly helping people – her work is not just a job.
Liane first trained to become a mediator in 1998 with the Good Shephard Mediation Program and has mediated hundreds of family matters – divorce and custody to family disputes - preferring to help families work towards resolution rather than get stuck in positions. Liane is a Supervisory Mediator on the Montgomery County Custody Mediation Program, with hundreds of hours of training, and has mediated hundreds of custody matters privately and through the program. Liane more recently has been trained in Collaborative Law where she finds her mediation skills are a perfect fit. Liane often wears her Ruth Bader Ginsburg earrings to ground her in doing her work, not for herself, but in the service of others.
Liane is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association (Family Law and Collaborative Law Committees), the Montgomery Bar Association (Family Law Section, Collaborative Law Committee, and Mediation Committee), the Doris Jonas Freed American Inn of Court, Pennsylvania Council of Mediators, the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, and the Collaborative Law Professionals of Southeastern Pennsylvania.
Practice Areas
- Legal Professional and Mediator
Education
- Temple University School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- J.D. - 05/1993
- Pennsylvania State University
- B.A. - 12/1986
- Major: Foreign Service & International Politics
- Major: Latin American Studies
- Minor: Spanish, Semester in Salamanca, Spain
Bar Admissions
- Pennsylvania, 1993
Classes & Seminars
- Montgomery County Court-Certified Mediator, Custody Mediation Orientation Program
- Certified Mediator, Good Shepherd Mediation Program
- Certified Mediator, Montgomery County Mediation Center
Pro-Bono Activities
- Peace Corps Volunteer-Health & Nutrition Extensionist, U.S. Peace Corps, Guatemala, Central America, 1987 to 1989
Professional Associations
- Montgomery County Bar Association, Mediator Division of the Family Law Section
Past Positions
- Liane Davis Anderson, Mediator, Wyndmoor, PA, Attorney/Mediator/Educator/Independent Consultant, 2002 to 2010
- Fair Housing Council Of Montgomery County, Glenside, PA, Education & Outreach Coordinator, 1995 to 2003
- Fair Housing Council Of Montgomery County, Glenside, PA, Trainer/Independent Consultant, 2003 to 2004
- Schuylkill County Courthouse, Pottsville, PA, Judicial Staff Attorney for President Judge William E. Baldwin, 1993 to 1995
- Temple Legal Aid Office, Philadelphia, PA, Legal Assistant, 1991 to 1992
- Temple Legal Aid Office, Philadelphia, PA, 1992 to 1993
- American Civil Liberties Union, Wilmington, DE, Legal Intern, 1992 to 1992
- Armenakis & Armenakis, New York, NY, Law Clerk, 1991 to 1991