Attorneys

Pamela R. Canter | Jessica M. Lee-Messer | Lauren Greenberg Wanderman

Pamela R. Canter

Pamela R. Canter is a Certified Family Law Specialist, and her family law practice includes Collaborative Practice, Mediation, Consultation, Creation of Pre and Post Marital Agreements, and other transactional family law work. She is a member of the Association of Certified Family Law Specialists, California Women Lawyers, and the state and local Bar Associations' sections on Family Law. Her involvement with the San Mateo County Bar Association includes serving as the Chair of the Family Law Section for three years, as a member of the Bench and Bar Committee, and as a Director of the Women Lawyers Legal Education Foundation. In 1999, Pamela co-founded the Peninsula Collaborative Family Law Group (now known as Collaborative Practice San Mateo County). She received her undergraduate degree in Romance Languages from New York University in 1989, and her law degree from the University of San Francisco in 1992. She founded Canter•Moorhead in 2000. Pamela is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbel.

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Jessica M. Lee-Messer
Associate
Jessica M. Lee-Messer joined Canter•Moorhead, Family Law in 2005, and her family law practice includes Litigation, Collaborative Practice and Mediation.  Jessica has been practicing family law for 8 years, and prior to joining Canter•Moorhead, she practiced business litigation at Hazelwood & Weber LLC and family law at The Hais Group, P.C. (now Hais, Hais, Kallen & Goldberger, P.C.) in Saint Louis, Missouri. Jessica graduated in 1999 from Washington University School of Law, which she attended as a recipient of the Scholar in Law Scholarship, and she received her undergraduate degree in Policy Analysis and Management Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1996. She is a member of the Family Law sections of the American Bar Association and the state and local bar associations, and she is on the board of the San Mateo County Bar Association Women Lawyers’ Section, where she co-founded and administers the SMCBA Women Lawyers’ Section Mentoring Program. Jessica is currently the co-chair of Collaborative Practice San Mateo County and a member of Collaborative Practice Silicon Valley. She is licensed to practice in California, Missouri and Colorado.
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Lauren Greenberg Wanderman
Associate
Lauren Greenberg Wanderman practices both family law and estate planning. Her family law practice includes Litigation, Mediation, and Collaborative Practice. Lauren received her undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley, where she majored in History. She is a graduate of U.C. Hastings College of the Law, where she concentrated her studies in Family Law. Lauren was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2004. Prior to joining Canter•Moorhead, she worked at the San Francisco Family Law Facilitators Office and as a clerk for Judge Katherine Feinstein in the Family Law Department of the San Francisco Superior Court. Lauren is a member of the following associations: American Bar, San Mateo County Bar (Probate and Family Law sections), San Francisco County Bar, California Bar (Trusts and Estates and Family Law sections), the Queen’s Bench, and the Peninsula Estate Planning Council. Lauren served as the chair of the San Mateo County Bar Association Family Law Section in 2007. She served as the treasurer of the San Mateo County Barristers in 2007, the vice-president in 2008 and the president in 2009. In addition, Lauren volunteers at the San Mateo Family Law Facilitator’s Office and does pro-bono work for C.O.R.A. (Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse).
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