Attorney and Mediator, Terri Breer, has been a licensed attorney for thirty-five (35) years and has experience as a civil litigator, mediator and collaborative attorney handling divorce, family law, real estate and business matters. Although she has conducted civil trials involving business, real estate and family law disputes,  her practice for the past 25 years has been devoted to mediation of family law disputes and other forms of alternative dispute resolution including collaborative divorce methods.  She has written several articles on alternative dispute resolution and the need for change in the current family law adversarial system.  She was Chair of OCBA – Alternative Dispute Resolution Section in 2014.  She has served as Board Member of the Southern California Mediation Association (SCMA) since 2015 and is now in her second term on the SCMA Board.  She has been active in the SCMA Orange County Professional Development Group and she has chaired the SCMA Family Mediation Institute (FMI) for 2018, 2019, 2020 and is currently planning the 2021 FMI, which will be the first FMI virtual conference.

Terri currently owns and manages Breer Law Offices, a solo law and mediation practice in Irvine, California.  She also provides family mediator training through New Day Divorce Center that focuses on preparing family mediators for the legal issues and document preparation required to process uncontested divorce.

Her private practice was established first in 1988 as a civil litigation firm focusing on family law, real estate and business matters.  In 1994 the firm expanded to include family law mediation and in 2004, Collaborative Divorce.  She has mediated hundreds of family law disputes, including divorce, custody, property division, pre-marital agreements, domestic partnerships, and surrogacy arrangements.  Ms. Breer provides legal services as a collaborative attorney in Collaborative Divorce cases and will often use a cooperative team approach when she mediates divorce disputes collaborating with financial planners, child specialists and divorce coaches through the mediation process. Ms. Breer is active in hosting various networking and educational opportunities for divorce professionals, including South Coast Collaborative Professionals luncheons and mixer from 2006 to 2016, and The Attorney Therapist Breakfast Club that was founded in 2017 and meets monthly. Both professional groups bring together professionals who share her commitment to helping families resolve divorce and family disputes cooperatively and outside of the adversarial court system.