Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP

Title: Partner
Primary Office: Norristown, PA
Practice Area/s: Family Law
Telephone: 610.278.1511 | Fax: 610.272.6976
Email: lgold-bikin@wglaw.com

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Professional Experience:

Ms. Gold-Bikin is a partner in the firm's Family Law practice group, which she chairs. Prior to joining Weber Gallagher, Ms. Gold-Bikin was a partner and chair of the Family Law Practice Group at WolfBlock LLP.

For the last six years, Ms. Gold-Bikin has been an active board member of the National Adoption Center and the Philadelphia Education Fund.

Ms. Gold-Bikin has served as an adjunct professor in the Trial Advocacy Institute at the University of Houston for the past 15 years. She also lectures frequently for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Villanova University Law School, Rutgers University Law School and various bar associations throughout the country.

From 2004 through 2013, Ms. Gold-Bikin has been recognized by the publisher of the Pennsylvania edition of Super Lawyers magazine as being among the top 5 percent of practitioners in her practice specialty within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Ms. Gold-Bikin was named one of the 50 Best Business Women in Pennsylvania, named by Worth Magazine as one of the top 10 divorce lawyers in the country and one of the Top 100 lawyers in 2007, and named by the March of Dimes in the Top Business Women in Montgomery County.

Ms. Gold-Bikin is credited with developing The PARTNERS Program, an educational program of the ABA Family Law Section used to teach relationship skills to teens.

In addition to serving on numerous editorial boards, Ms. Gold-Bikin has published numerous articles, journals and books, including Divorce Practice Handbook (Michie, 1994) and her most recent publication, The Divorce Trial Manual.

She frequently appears as a commentator on family law issues in many local and national media, including ABC's Good Morning America.

Education:

Villanova University School of Law, J.D., 1976.

Albright College, B.A., 1973.

Professional Memberships and Activities:

Ms. Gold-Bikin, who is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania courts, is a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and the Pennsylvania and American Bar Foundations, a member of the American, Pennsylvania and Montgomery Bar Associations, the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, the National Association of Women Lawyers, and a Diplomat of the American College of Matrimonial Trial Lawyers.

As a member of the American Bar Association, Ms. Gold-Bikin has been co-chair of the Commission on Domestic Violence, a member of the House of Delegates since 1996, and was a member of the Board of Governors from 1997 to 2000. She is a member of the Board of Governors of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and advisor to the Family Law Project of the American Law Institute. She has served on both the Board of Directors and the Bench Bar Committee of the Montgomery County Bar Association.

Recent News:

2013-02-15 :: Lynne Z. Gold-Bikin Quoted in Delaware Law Weekly

2012-12-12 :: Lynne Z. Gold-Bikin quoted in Legal Intelligencer Article Lackawanna Family Court Changes Guardian Ad Litem Program

2012-11-06 :: Lynne Z. Gold-Bikin quoted in Legal Intelligencer Article Lackawanna County Renews Guardian Ad Litem's Contract

2012-10-31 :: Lynne Gold-Bikin Recognized by Albright College Alumni Association

2012-09-06 :: Lynne Z. Gold-Bikin Quoted in Daily News Article

2012-07-11 :: Lynne Z. Gold-Bikin Quoted in The Legal Intelligencer

2012-01-10 :: Lynne Gold-Bikin Appointed to Upper Merion Zoning Hearing Board

2012-01-04 :: Lynne Gold-Bikin Contributes to Huffington Post Blog

2011-09-12 :: Lynne Gold-Bikin and Jonathan T. Hoffman Co-Author Article for The Matrimonial Strategist

2011-08-29 :: Lynne Gold-Bikin Quoted in Prenupital Agreement Article

2011-07-28 :: Lynne Gold-Bikin Authors Cross-Examination Article