Kathryn J. Laffey

Kathryn J. Laffey is a partner at WhitbeckBeglis, working at our Wilmington, Delaware office. Ms. Laffey graduated from Longwood College in Virginia with a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work. After two years of employment as a social worker/school counselor, she attended Notre Dame Law School. Ms. Laffey was a Delaware Family Court law clerk until entering private practice, where she has worked almost exclusively in the domestic relations field for over 35 years.

Ms. Laffey has appeared and successfully argued before the Delaware Supreme Court on numerous occasions. She has also been active in the Delaware State Bar Association on many committees and served as Chairman of the Family Law Section and as Vice-Chair of the Alternate Dispute Resolution Section. She frequently presents on Family Law issues at the DSBA Family Law Fundamentals and annual Family Law Update seminars as well as for Family Court mediation training for attorneys. Kathy frequently volunteers her services in representing children as Attorney Guardian ad litem through the Office of the Child Advocate and private parties through Delaware Volunteer Legal Services and the Victims Advocacy Program. 

Kathryn was one of the first attorneys mediating divorce and custody matters in the State of Delaware since receiving formal Family Mediation training in 1992 and is the Director of Family Mediation Services, an alternative to the adversarial divorce court system. She has been a member of the Academy of Family Mediators, which merged with other national conflict resolution organizations, and is now known as the Association for Conflict Resolution.