Levine Smith Snider & Wilson, LLC is pleased to announce that Dale M. Cecka has joined the firm as senior counsel bringing a diverse background that includes practice, teaching and publishing in the area of family law. She handles a wide range of family law matters including divorce, custody and legitimation, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, modifications, contempt and family violence actions.

Cecka has spent the majority of her legal career focused on family law. After graduating from Columbia School of Law, she was awarded a prestigious Skadden Fellowship to work at the Legal Aid Society of New York, where she advocated for children aging out of foster care. At the end of the two-year fellowship, she was awarded a teaching fellowship at St. John’s University School of Law in New York, where she also directed its Child Advocacy Clinic. She then moved to Richmond and was a professor of law and founder and director of the Jeanette Lipman Family Law Clinic at the University of Richmond School of Law and a full clinical professor of law.

Prior to joining Levine Smith Snider & Wilson, Cecka spent two years with the Georgia Attorney General’s Office as an assistant attorney general where she argued in the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Georgia Supreme Court on behalf of the state, and in federal court in major multi-state antitrust litigation. She returned to practicing family law in 2021. Cecka has published numerous articles that explore many cutting-edge issues in child welfare and domestic relations law. She received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University.