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More about Sogand Zamani.

Family formation experience

Her representative adoption work includes working with adoptive parents and birth parents, including LGBTQ individuals, an independent or agency adoptions, foster parent and step-parent adoptions, break the seal petitions, and other related proceedings. She also advocates for and represents individuals and couples seeking to use ART, such as gestational carrier (surrogacy) arrangements and donor egg and/or embryos arrangements, to create or expand their family.

Custody/divorce experience

A significant portion of Sogand's practice is devoted to representing individuals and families in custody and divorce from negotiation to litigation through trial in custody disputes (both domestic and international), dissolution of partnerships, and divorce actions. She has a particular strength in handling challenging international custody and divorce disputes with complex jurisdictional and cross-cultural considerations given her educational background, language proficiencies, experience in international mediation and conflict resolution, and her personal experience living abroad. She is a strongly protective and persistent advocate for her clients.


Sogand is known for her personal approach to each client's needs, her focus on the emotional and physical well-being of children experiencing family crises, and her strategic representation of clients to protect their financial interests. As part of her family law practice, she negotiates and assists in enforcing premarital agreements, settlement agreements, parenting agreements, and litigates regularly. Sogand is also a trained mediator and Collaborative law practitioner, representing individuals seeking to pursue divorce and dissolution in a dignified and less acrimonious way through mediation and Collaborative Practice. She is equal to the task of litigating matters that cannot be resolved out of court.

Community involvement experience

Sogand is also active in the community. Sogand serves on the Domestic Relations Subcommittee of the DC Superior Court to help the court meet the changing needs of the family law community. She completed a three-year elected term on the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section Board of the Maryland State Bar Association (2012-2015). As part of her role on the ADR Section Council, Sogand moderated the section's bi-monthly webinars and served as the chaired the annual state-wide training event. She also served as Past-President of the Collaborative Project of DC (2012-2015), a project seeking to bring collaborative resources to the indigent population of the DC metropolitan area, and continues to serve on its Board. Sogand co-founded and regularly volunteers to present at a free workshop on divorce each month, “Third Thursday’s”, which is sponsored by the Collaborative Project of Washington, DC.

In addition, Sogand served as a Board Member and past-President (2014-2015) of the DC Academy of Collaborative Professionals. She volunteers for the American Heart Association, previously co-chairing the Auction Committee for the Greater Washington Region Heart Ball (2013-2015), and has guest lectured at American University Washington College of Law, Catholic Law School, Howard University Law School, and Georgetown Law School on the subjects of Assisted Reproductive Technology, Child Welfare, Divorce, and Practice Management, as well as at the George Washington University Law School on the subject of Collaborative Law.


Sogand was recognized as on the Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers Top 50 Women List in 2021 and 2022, was selected on the Super Lawyers, Washington, DC list, by her community of peers consistently since 2015, and was recognized on the Super Lawyers Rising Stars List for Washington, DC in 2013 and 2014. Sogand was given a 5.0/5.0 Overall Client Rating by Martindale Hubbell as well as a 10/10 rating on AVVO.

Sogand is a member of the following organizations

  • Academy of Collaborative ProfessionalsPast-President (2014-2015), Board Member (2012-present), DC

  • Collaborative Project of Washington, DCPast-President (2012-2015), Board Member (2012-present),

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution Section, Maryland State Bar AssociationCouncil Member, (2012-2015)

  • Collaborative Dispute Resolution Professionals of Montgomery County, MDBoard Member, and Co-Chair, Education Committee (2013-2014)

  • DC Bar AssociationMember (Family Law Section)

  • Maryland State Bar AssociationMember (Family Law and ADR Sections)

  • Bar Association of Montgomery CountyMember (Family Law and ADR Sections)

  • Subcommittee on Assisted Reproductive Technologies of the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association

  • American Society of Reproductive MedicineProfessional Member

  • Maryland Collaborative Practice Council