Carla F. Stern is a versatile family law attorney and Atlanta native with a proven track record of achievement in handling complex marriage dissolution and child custody cases involving high asset clients. Her areas of strength include mediation, litigation, and relationship cultivation as well as providing clients with innovative solutions to challenging situations. She distinctively combines strong law background and advanced legal skills with a passion for counseling both clients and team members. Ms. Stern is a fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and is Board Certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. She is also a member of the Family Law Sections of the Atlanta Bar, Georgia Bar, and American Bar Associations, The Charles Longstreet Weltner Family Law Inn of Court, and the Atlanta Lawyer’s Club. A frequent lecturer and panelist at matrimonial law seminars, some of Ms. Stern lectures have been delivered to the State Bar of Georgia, Family Law Section; the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers National and Georgia Chapter and the Atlanta Bar Association Family Law Section. Additionally, she has authored numerous articles on matrimonial law. Ms. Stern has received many recognitions and awards including Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, since 2010, 2011 inaugural edition of the Martindale-Hubbell® Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers™ - exclusively for women attorneys who have received the highest possible rating in both legal ability and ethical standards from their peers; Georgia’s Top Rated Lawyers and Super Lawyers. Received AV Preeminent rating which is the highest possible professional rating by Martindale Hubble for 12 years in a row. Included in Best Lawyers in America since 2013 for work in the practice area of Family Law.

Area of Practice: Commercial Litigation

Mindy H. Stern, a partner of the firm, concentrates in real estate, estate planning and estate administration. Her real estate practice includes sales, acquisitions, leasing and financing on behalf of for profit and non-profit entities, public companies, and individuals. Her trusts and estate practice includes counseling clients on all aspects of estate planning to achieve their family wealth transfer, asset protection, philanthropic and other goals and integrating that planning with their changes in marital status and life partner relationships, as well as representing fiduciaries and beneficiaries in the administration of trusts and estates. Ms. Stern is a former Chair of the Real Property Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, and is a member of that Section’s Executive Committee. Ms. Stern also Chairs the Committee’s Housing Task Force, and Task Force creating a scholarship fund in memory of the Association’s deceased former President, Lorraine Power Tharp, and is a member of the Executive Committee’s Task Force regarding attorney escrow accounts and a member (and former Co-Chair) of the Section’s committee on Not For Profit Entities and Concerns. Ms. Stern is a former member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York’s delegation to the House of Delegates of the New York State Bar Association, and she is a past Chair of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York’s Committee on Real Property Law, as well as a former Secretary of the Association’s Committee on Cooperatives and Condominiums. Ms. Stern was an Adjunct Professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law from 2007 through 2014, where she taught a Real Estate Contract Drafting course. She has lectured for the New York State Bar Association, Practicing Law Institute, the Real Estate Institute of New York University, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and authored numerous articles on a variety of real estate related topics. She is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, has been voted by her peers to be a New York Metro Super Lawyer since 2008 (and in 2015 was named by Super Lawyers to be one of the top 100 attorneys in the New York City Metro area, and between 2015 and 2017 was named one of the top 50 women attorneys in the New York City Metro area), and was named one of Real Estate Weekly’s 100 Women Real Estate Leaders for the 21st Century. Ms. Stern chairs the Board of Trustees of The Playwrights Realm, a nonprofit OffBroadway theater company founded in 2007 devoted to supporting early-career playwrights by giving them the creative, financial and professional assistance they need to launch their careers including public reading festivals. The Realm presents two full off-Broadway productions of its playwrights’ works every year, which frequently receive rave reviews from the Times and other critics. In 2022 Ms. Stern was elected as a Fellow of The New York Bar Foundation, the charitable and philanthropic entity of The New York State Bar Association. The Foundation provides grants to financially support law-related programs of bar associations and legal service, non-profit and other organizations throughout New York State focused on serving the public, improving the administration of justice, legal research and education, and promoting high standards of professional ethics. Fellows of the Foundation are distinguished members of the bench and bar recognized for outstanding professional achievement, dedication to the legal profession, and commitment to the Rule of Law. Ms. Stern received her law degree from Rutgers Law School and her undergraduate degree from Lafayette College.