Monica C. Mazzei

Partner

Monica Mazzei focuses her practice exclusively on family law and specializes in dissolution actions involving complicated valuation and financial matters and complex community property and support issues. Ms. Mazzei counsels clients regarding custody and paternity matters and negotiates and drafts pre-marital and post-marital agreements. Ms. Mazzei represents clients through the litigation process and mediation. Ms. Mazzei represents clients in the Bay Area with a concentration in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

Ms. Mazzei works as a volunteer family court mediator in the San Francisco Superior Court. She also acts as a mentor family law attorney to the San Francisco Bar Association, Volunteer Legal Services Program as well as having a family law pro bono practice of her own.

Prior to joining Sideman & Bancroft, Ms. Mazzei practiced family law at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in San Francisco and before that at Freid and Goldsman in Los Angeles.

Professional Involvement

Ms. Mazzei was the co-chair of the San Francisco Bar Association, Barristers Family Law Section from 2009 through 2010. In 2008, Ms. Mazzei received the Outstanding Award for Public Service from the San Francisco Bar Association.

Ms. Mazzei speaks frequently on family law issues to financial advisors and other professional groups.

She is a member of the American Bar Association, Family Law Section and the San Francisco Bar Association Family Law Section

Listed in Northern California Rising Stars®: 2011

Education

B.A. Holy Names University, Magna Cum Laude, 1999
Southwestern University School of Law, 2002