Ellen L. F. Strauss

Attorney Ellen L. F. Strauss has practiced divorce, family and civil law in Fairfield County, Connecticut for the past 26 years. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Connecticut State University, received her Juris Doctor degree from Franklin Pierce Law Center and is a member of the Connecticut Bar, the U.S. District Court in Connecticut, U.S. District Court, Southern District, NY; and Eastern District, NY. She is on the Board of Directors of the Human Lactation Center of Fairfield, Connecticut, in addition to being founder of Keep Weston Rural.

Attorney Strauss has specialized in cases involving abused women and children and highly contested divorces.

In June 2006, Attorney Strauss began shifting her divorce practice in a more positive, family-focused direction. Attorney Strauss developed The Alternative Divorce Process™, a Collaborative Divorce Process which also encompasses a Collaborative Divorce Team approach. Clients are offered more counseling, collaboration and mediation without the pain and expense of a court trial. Attorney Strauss is a trained and certified collaborative family law attorney as well as a mediator. Saving time, money and bringing rationality, values and morality into the divorce arena is crucial to the foundation of each case.

She also has experience in the areas of motor vehicle accident and personal injury cases.