HICKS CRANDALL JUHL P.C. - Key Persons
Ms. Crandall practices civil litigation with an emphasis on family law. She has extensive experience in equitable distribution, child and spousal support, custody and visitation, uncontested adoptions, and protective order matters. She also has experience in real estate and tort litigation. Ms. Crandall appears in all Northern Virginia Courts, including Fairfax, Arlington, Loudoun, Prince William, and Alexandria and has successfully argued before the Virginia Court of Appeals.
Dana Wolfson has practiced exclusively domestic relations law since graduating from law school. She represents clients all over Northern Virginia, including the counties of Fairfax, Arlington, Loudoun, Prince William, and the City of Alexandria. In addition to litigation, Dana frequently represents clients in negotiation and mediation.
Dana received a B.A. summa cum laude from the Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University and a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School. During law school, Dana participated in the Domestic Violence Clinic.
Upon graduating law school, Dana served as a family law fellow with Legal Services of Northern Virginia where she provided direct representation to victims of domestic violence. Before joining the firm, Dana was then with Zamani & Associates, PLLC, in Washington D.C., as a law fellow working in all areas of family law.
Dana is an active member of the local legal community as a member of the Virginia State Bar, Fairfax Bar Association, Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, and the Virginia Women Attorneys Association. She volunteers with the Women's Center in Vienna, Virginia and is a board member for the Northern Virginia Chapter of the Virginia Women Attorneys Association.
Haley Heston joined the firm in 2022 with a passion for family law matters and helping people navigate legal issues in their time of need. Born and raised in Northern Virginia, Haley has spent some time in Richmond, Virginia; Charleston, South Carolina; and presently resides in Fairfax County.
Haley earned her undergraduate degree from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she majored in Political Science with a minor in Philosophy of Law. While in Richmond, Virginia, Haley enjoyed volunteering with the Children's Miracle Network Hospital.
Haley then graduated from George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School in 2021. While in law school, Haley worked as an extern at the Commonwealth's Attorney Office where she wrote numerous appellate briefs in opposition to petition for appeal to the Virginia Court of Appeals. Haley's experience with the criminal justice system helped inform her perspective in family law matters, and further solidified her desire to go into family law.
After being admitted to the Virginia State Bar in 2021, Haley worked for a small general practice where her main concentration was family law, wills, and estate administration. Regularly managing challenging family law matters that have a lasting and significant impact, Haley guides clients in taking the best possible route for themselves and their families. Haley enjoys assisting clients through litigation, negotiation, and mediation. Her goal is to provide a vigorous, thorough, and honest representation.
Haley recognizes that her clients seek both a strong advocate and a frank and honest advisor. Haley incorporates this into her approach to find ways to resolve disputes before they escalate to litigation. Her practice is primarily focused on family law, including issues related to pre-marital agreements, marital agreements, child custody, spousal support, equitable distribution, domestic violence, post-divorce modification issues, and wills.
In her free time, Haley enjoys exploring the arts community, hiking and zip-lining nature trials in Newfoundland, Canada, dominating on Nintendo switch, and spending time with family and friends.
Education
Virginia Commonwealth University
Kelly M. Juhl exclusively practices domestic relations law in Fairfax and surrounding jurisdictions. She routinely handles equitable distribution, child and spousal support, custody and visitation, and protective order matters in Fairfax County, Arlington County, Loudoun County, Prince William County, Stafford County, and the City of Alexandria. In addition to litigation, Kelly represents clients in collaborative law, negotiation and mediation. She is recognized by Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers, Northern Virginia Magazine, and by Virginia Business magazine.
Kelly received a B.A. from The Pennsylvania State University and a J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Kelly is also a proud graduate of Annandale High School in Annandale, Virginia.
A resident of Northern Virginia since her military family relocated to the area when she was a teenager, Ms. Piper is a graduate of The Madeira School, Wellesley College, and the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary. Ms. Piper's diverse experience from being involved with the Fairfax and Loudoun County Circuit Courts, the DC Superior Court, and various adoption and social service agencies in the greater Boston and DC Metropolitan areas helped her develop a strong passion for family law.
Ms. Piper has been practicing family law since 2001. She has handled equitable distribution, support and custody matters in the Circuit Courts and Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Courts throughout Northern Virginia and has appeared on brief before the Virginia Court of Appeals.
Ms. Piper has a passion for helping clients navigate issues of child custody and visitation, with the goal of helping them to move forward and co-parent effectively. If litigation becomes necessary, she works with experts in multiple disciplines to advocate for her clients, and prepares clients and witnesses to present evidence at trial. Ms. Piper has served as a Guardian ad litem for children, and believes that serving in that capacity in cases gives her a different perspective in custody and visitation matters.
Ms. Piper's practical approach to solving family law problems helps clients achieve a fair, equitable, and prompt resolution. Because of her previous experience working with business owners in corporate administration and transactions, she appreciates the constraints on clients' time and resources and she is conscientious of the effect of litigation on those resources. Although Ms. Piper enjoys assisting clients in the process of reaching consensus, she is skilled at balancing the collaborative nature of that process with litigation, which sometimes becomes necessary when there are difficult or sensitive issues. Ms. Piper's previous experience with business, real estate and contested estate matters gives her a familiarity with those issues not found in many of her contemporaries.
Ms. Piper has honed her experience in those areas of family law in which she is particularly interested--military family issues, and retirement benefits. As an attorney member of EX-POSE, an organization of former spouses of service members, Ms. Piper helps clients evaluate the nature of their interests in military benefits, and assists them in navigating this difficult area of the law in order to best protect their rights. She has experience in complex issues of both government and private sector retirement plans, and enjoys solving the challenges that clients can sometimes face in effectuating the division of these benefits.
Ms. Piper, listed in the Virginia Super Lawyers Top 50 Women and Top 100 in 2015, 2017 through 2020, and 2021, has been selected as a Virginia Super Lawyer or Rising Star each year since 2009. She has been named to the Legal Elite list by Virginia Business since 2013. She has been listed as a top domestic relations attorney by both Northern Virginia Magazine and Arlington Magazine. Ms. Piper served on the Board of Directors of the Northern Virginia chapter of the Virginia Women Attorneys Association for many years, as President from 2017-2018. She is a member of the family law sections of the Virginia State Bar, Fairfax Bar Association and Virginia Trial Lawyers Association. She has taught classes on the discovery process at the Vienna Women's Center. She attended the American Bar Association's Family Law Trial Advocacy Institute in 2011.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Firm Founder and Principal
Susan M. Hicks has more than 35 years of experience as a trial and appellate court attorney. She has substantial trial court experience with complex Equitable Distribution matters addressing business valuations and other complicated accounting issues. She also has extensive experience in high conflict custody disputes dealing with difficult psychological issues. She has tried numerous multistate custody cases dealing with the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act. Susan has testified as an expert in Family Law cases, and she regularly deals with experts in psychological custody evaluations, certified public accountants, and other professionals. Susan has served as a family law mediator, and she frequently represents clients in the mediation process.
Her peers have recognized her by electing her a Fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and she has received Martindale-Hubbell's top rating of AV. Susan has been recognized in The Washington Post Magazine as one of the Best Lawyers in America since 2008, and by Virginia Business magazine as one of the "Elite" family law attorneys. Susan has served as a member of the Bar Council (the governing body) of the Virginia State Bar. She is past chair of the Board of Governors of the VSB Family Law Section and the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association Family Law Section.
Firm founder and principal Susan Hicks has more than 30 years of trial experience, including numerous appellate court cases. Her peers have recognized her by electing her a fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and she has received Martindale-Hubbell's top rating of AV Preeminent. In 2017, Susan was recognized as Lawyer of the Year, Family Law, Washington, D.C., in The Best Lawyers in America. She is listed annually in the Washington Post Magazine as one of the metropolitan D.C.'s best family law attorneys.
Job Titles:
- Lawyers Association, Member
- Lawyers Association, Member, Present
Job Titles:
- Attorney Association, Member
- Attorneys Association, Member