Darcy A Shoop

Darcy Shoop concentrates her practice in family law and is one of the Washington D.C. area’s most experienced Collaborative Practice attorneys. Although skilled in representing clients in a court-based process, her practice now is dedicated to helping families navigate the difficult transitions that are inherent in divorce through settlement advocacy including the respectful, solution-based collaborative process. During the collaborative process, she assists her clients in identifying and attaining goals that are future-focused and child friendly.

Collaborative Practice allows clients to retain control over their lives while guiding the family through the development of mutually agreeable and durable resolutions for those issues of most importance to them. Ms. Shoop also represents clients in the negotiation of marital settlement agreements, prenuptial agreements, and is an experienced and skilled mediator.

Darcy Shoop concentrates her practice in family law and is one of the Washington D.C. area’s most experienced Collaborative Practice attorneys. Although skilled in representing clients in a court-based process, her practice now is dedicated to helping families navigate the difficult transitions that are inherent in divorce through settlement advocacy including the respectful, solution-based collaborative process. During the collaborative process, she assists her clients in identifying and attaining goals that are future-focused and child friendly.

Collaborative Practice allows clients to retain control over their lives while guiding the family through the development of mutually agreeable and durable resolutions for those issues of most importance to them. Ms. Shoop also represents clients in the negotiation of marital settlement agreements, prenuptial agreements, and is an experienced and skilled mediator.

Darcy Shoop has been a leader in the development of Collaborative Practice in the Washington area since 2004. She is the founding and Past-President of Maryland Collaborative Practice Council – the state-wide umbrella organization for the advancement of Collaborative Practice, and she is the founding and Past-President of the Collaborative Divorce Association, Inc. – the first professional Collaborative Practice organization in Maryland. In 2011, Ms. Shoop was named Co-Chair of the then-newly established Collaborative Law Section of the Montgomery County Bar Association, which was the first Section of a Bar Association dedicated to Collaborative Law in Maryland, Virginia and D.C., and among one of the first in the country.

She has been quoted in the Washington Post Magazine, Bethesda Magazine, and in Collaborative Divorce Handbook – Helping Families Without Going to Court by Forrest Mosten. Ms. Shoop often is invited to speak on the topic of Collaborative Practice addressing Bar Associations, the University of Maryland School of Law, and Collaborative Practice groups and other professional organizations throughout the Washington and Baltimore Metropolitan areas.