Allison Schreiber Lee

Allison Schreiber Lee is a seasoned trial attorney who focuses her practice on family law and domestic relations. Ms. Lee has extensive experience in representing men and women in high conflict custody and high asset property division matters. Ms. Lee has counseled clients in matters involving mental health and addiction concerns, and emotional, verbal, and physical abuse issues. She has represented men and women who have themselves or have spouses with personality disorders, mental health challenges, and a history of addiction. Ms. Lee’s prior employment as a child abuse prosecutor provides her with particular insight into the investigation and allegations of child abuse. She has worked with clients both to protect their children from abusers, and to protect the rights of those wrongfully accused of both physical and sexual abuse.

Ms. Lee’s representation includes divorces, paternity matters, motions to modify child support, child custody, and maintenance, and in seeking and defending against Orders of Protection. Her representation of both husbands and wives allows her a distinctive understanding of what the other side is planning in litigation. Ms. Lee has defended clients who are being investigated by the Department of Social Services, Children’s Division, including appearing in front of the Child Abuse and Neglect Review Board (CANRB), and trials de novo in the circuit court. She has been lead counsel in more than 40 jury trials and was co-lead counsel in one of the longest jury trials in the history of the City of St. Louis. Ms. Lee has also tried more than 100 non-jury trials to verdict.

Ms. Lee is the author of the book Co-parenting ABCs: Effective tips from a divorced divorce lawyer and parent. Ms. Lee is Board Certified in Family Law by the National Board of Trial Advocacy in Family Law. Approximately three percent of American lawyers are board-certified. At the time of her certification, there are only 24 attorneys in the state of Missouri who were certified by the NBTA, and Ms. Lee was the only one Board Certified in the area of Family Law. She is also only the second woman in Missouri to be Board Certified by the National Board of Trial Attorneys.

Ms. Lee is a Fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. The Academy Fellows are highly skilled negotiators and litigators who represent individuals in all facets of family law. These areas include divorce, annulment, prenuptial agreements, postnuptial agreements, marital settlement agreements, child custody and visitation, business valuations, property valuations and division, alimony, child support, and other family law issues. Ms. Lee has also been selected as a SuperLawyer in Missouri and as a SuperLawyer Top 50 Women Attorneys in Missouri and Kansas. Ms. Lee has also received a Missouri Lawyers Weekly Women’s Justice Award for Litigation.

In her representation of businesses and individuals, Ms. Lee has been responsible for all phases of litigation, from extensive pre-trial work through acting as lead counsel in complex trials. She has led the investigation and preparation of document-intensive multi-party products liability litigation from inception to trial. She has taken and defended depositions of a wide variety of expert and lay witnesses. She has appeared in federal and state courts throughout Missouri. Her representation of businesses and individuals allows Ms. Lee to provide her clients with a broad understanding of many facets of the law. Ms. Lee earned her J.D. from Washington University School of Law.