VyVy is a dual-qualified UK/USA lawyer and qualified as a Solicitor in England and Wales in 2005. VyVy specialises in representing children, parents, and extended family members in care proceedings.
VyVy undertakes her own advocacy and she has Higher Rights of Audience (Civil). As well as being a member of the Law Society’s Children Law Accreditation Scheme (aka the Children Panel) she is an assessor and interviews applicants/marks re-accreditation applications. She has Specialist Resolution accreditation in the fields of Children Law (Public) and Domestic Abuse; she is a member of the London Committee of Resolution and she is a Resolution assessor for the Children Law (Public) portfolio and a back-up assessor for Domestic Abuse portfolio. VyVy is a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Lawyers for Childrens as well as being a member of the Equality & Diversity Sub-Committee. She is also is a co-organiser of the London Children’s Lawyers.
VyVy has a Juris Doctorate and an LL.M from the University of Washington School of Law in the USA. VyVy remains an active member of the Washington State Bar Association. She worked as a trial lawyer in Seattle, Washington (USA) in the fields of Care, Juvenile Justice, Misdemeanours, Children-in-Need, At-Risk Youth, and Education law until she moved to the United Kingdom. She is also a member of the District of Columbia Bar.