<p>Ms. Laffey graduated from Brandywine High School in Wilmington, Delaware in 1974, and from Longwood College in Virginia in 1977 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 graduating in 1982. Ms. Laffey was a Family Court law clerk from August 1982 until November 1983. She has been in private practice, working almost exclusively in the domestic relations field, since December, 1983. Ms. Laffey 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 has spoken on many occasions on Family Law issues at the DSBA Family Law Fundamentals and annual Family Law Update seminars. <p>
Kathryn was appointed by Governor Carper to the Delaware Commission for Women in 1995, and served as Chair of the Commission from January, 1998 to March, 2002.
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Ms. Laffey was one of the first attorneys mediating divorce and custody matters in the State of Delaware since receiving 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.