Pickard, Margaret E

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Margaret Pickard currently serves as a Hearing Master for the Eighth Judicial District Court, Family Division, hearing cases in child abuse and neglect, as well as overseeing the Juvenile Drug Treatment Court program. Prior to working for the courts she specialized in family law, working as a Family Law Mediator and Parenting Coordinator, assisting parents involved in high conflict custody cases work cooperatively to resolve timeshare disputes. She served as adjunct faculty at UNLV from 2003-2015, teaching courses in torts, contracts, family law and legal terminology. In 2007, Margaret brought the Cooperative Parenting program to UNLV, teaching separating and divorcing parents involved in Family Court cases how to remove their children from parental conflict. In 2014, she was elected to the Nevada State Bar’s Family Law Section Executive Committee, serving until 2018. She was the Editor of the Nevada Family Law Review and Co-Chair of the Child Witness Committee, developing standardized protocols for conducting child interviews in the Family Court system. In 2012, she and her colleague, family law attorney Stacy Rocheleau, were the hosts of the popular radio show, Divorce War Radio. She attended the University of California, Davis, studying Sociology. She attended the University of California, Davis, King Hall School of Law in 1990, where she served as the Managing Editor of the UC Davis Law Review. Since 2012, she and her husband worked in the recovery community throughout the Las Vegas Valley, offering a weekly 12-step programs for teens struggling with addiction, as well as providing over 200 community presentations on facing and overcoming addiction. She and her husband share seven children and four grandchildren.

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