About Edith

I feel honored and privileged to help people solve problems that have to do with their most important relationships – their family relationships. One of the things that I find enormously satisfying about it is that while I often work with people during one of the most difficult transitions in their lives, I also witness their transformation to a new and better life.

My background and interests inform who I am and how I practice law. I was a nurse, a wife, and a mother before I went to law school, after which I became the single-again parent of school-aged children. In the mid-1990s, after I had been practicing law for about ten years, I began also practicing meditation and studying Buddhist teachings. I am active in a number of communities, including the movements to develop collaborative law and to introduce meditation and a meditative perspective to lawyers. I would like to leave positive change in my wake.

Education

Doctor of Jurisprudence Degree, University of San Francisco, 1984. Graduated with Honors. Published in University of San Francisco Law Review: "Nurses Legal Dilemma: When Hospital Staffing Compromises Professional Standards" (18 U.S.F. L. Rev. 109).
Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1966. Graduated with Eliot Honors.

Career

1990 - Current: Law Offices of Edith Kelly Politis, San Rafael, California
1987 - 1989: Attorney, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, California
1985 - 1987: Attorney, Stark, Stewart, Wells & Robinson, Oakland, California

Associations

Member of California Bar Association
Member of U.S. Claims Court Bar
Member of Marin County Bar Association
Member of Collaborative Practice Marin
Member of International Academy of Collaborative Professionals
Member Integrative Mediation Bay Area

Achievements

2000, Wiley W. Manuel Award, by the Marin County Bar Association
Organizes the annual lawyers retreat, "Finding Your Center in the Midst of Stress" at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Member of the Law Project: Center for the Contemplative Mind in Society