A graduate of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts and the Washington College of Law at The American University in Washington, D.C., Attorney Bourke has been practicing family law and general civil litigation since 1992. Attorney Bourke has also been professionally trained in family mediation and Collaborative Law, which encourage communication and cooperation between the parties.

In 1994, Attorney Bourke moved to Western Massachusetts, where she was an associate attorney with a small litigation office in Springfield for several years and then with the local law firm of Stobierski & Stobierski until October 2004. Her practice focused on family and probate matters as well as general civil litigation.

In November 2004, she opened her own law office in Greenfield, Massachusetts, concentrating in family law and mediation in Franklin and Hampshire Counties. She represents spouses, unmarried partners, mothers, fathers and children in divorce, paternity, custody, adoption, guardianship and other family cases.

Attorney Bourke lives with her husband and two young children in Northampton, Massachusetts. She is a member of the Massachusetts Bar (1994), the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Franklin County Bar Association, the Association for Conflict Resolution, the Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation and the Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council, Inc. She is a panel member of the Franklin County Bar Advocates for Children and for Women, and a member of the Board of Directors of The Northampton Survival Center.

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