Bio
Zoe Brown is an Associate Attorney at Ross Family Law. She has been practicing law for thirteen years, exclusively family law for approximately the last three and a half years. Zoe works with family law clients on all types of separation, dissolution, and custody matters via negotiation, public and private mediation, and in-court litigation.
As a former legal aid attorney and clinical law student supervisor and faculty at University of California - Berkeley School of Law’s East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC), Zoe brings a unique background to her family law practice. For over a decade, Zoe has worked and connected with clients from diverse backgrounds, meeting them with empathy, care, and zealous representation during some of the most stressful times in their lives. Zoe also utilizes her experience teaching law students to help her explain complex legal concepts in comprehensible ways to her clients. In addition, Zoe was published in U.C. Berkeley School of Law’s California Law Review online in August 2020.
Zoe began her legal career in the family law field and has enjoyed returning to this area of law. While still a law student, she made new law in her county with a dissolution case for a domestic violence survivor client. As well, Zoe was a pro bono attorney at the Family Violence Law Center representing low-income clients in civil harassment and domestic violence restraining order actions early on in her career. Zoe is a 2025 Northern California Super Lawyer Rising Star.
Zoe represents clients in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, Marin, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Sonoma, Napa, San Joaquin, Solano, Santa Cruz, and Sacramento counties.
Areas of Practice
- Family Law
- Litigation
- Negotiation and mediation
- Pre-separation issues
- Divorce and separation (including LGBTQIA+ and domestic partnerships)
- Child custody and visitation
- Property division (simple and complex, including businesses and equity compensation)
- Child support and spousal support
- Domestic violence restraining orders
- Post-judgment modifications and set-aside
Bar Admissions
- California
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Alameda County Bar Association
Education
- University of Oregon School of Law, J.D.
- Public Interest/Public Sector, president
- Oregon Review of International Law, editor
- Court-certified third year law student at Survivors Justice Center
- Summer law clerk at Bay Area Legal Aid in Marin County, and at human and environmental rights firm Accountability Counsel in S.F.
- University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA), B.A.
- Cum Laude