Kisha is a self-employed family law attorney based out of Somerset, NJ. After graduating with her JD from Rutgers University, Kisha began her career in government law offices before settling with the US Department of Justice for a few years. In 2005 she opened her own practice and has been providing legal assistance in family law ever since. Kisha also makes regular appearances on cable news networks, called in as a legal expert to offer her opinion on current national cases.
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>> Kisha Hebbon: My name is Kisha Hebbon, and I'm an attorney with my own practice specializing in family law. A typical day is getting my daughter up and ready for school, darting off to my office, and pretty much looking at my schedule to see if I have court, or if I have clients coming in for that day. For the most part I'm in court a lot, so I go to court. And while I'm in court, I multitask by going to my iPad, giving instructions to my staff, or answering any questions that my staff have. And then once I'm done with court I go back to the office and complete paperwork, or generate new business. The most popular one would be divorce, the most emotional stressful one, divorce, child custody, child support, emancipation issues, like where if someone's paying for child support and the child's now graduated from college, then the person has to file a motion to have that child emancipated, so typically anything dealing with husbands, wives, and children. Lately for the past year I've been in court maybe 4 times a week, so I'm in court. Court entails first talking to the client, and if I'm in trial, we're in the courtroom, I'm on my feet for the whole time, you know, doing cross-examination, or direct examination of my client, putting on experts, presenting evidence for the judge, or, you know, whoever's the trier of fact to review. And then once I'm done with that, it's a matter of either coming back for a second day. Most trials do not last only one day. And then when I go home -- or sometimes I work from home, but when I go back to the office, then I have to prepare for other cases, because it's not just one client that I'm representing. So I may have to prepare motion, do a trial brief. I do a lot of appellate work, so that entails reading transcripts, and coming up with an argument for an appeal; and then the other administrative stuff, making sure certain letters are done, the billing is done for the client. So it's a very busy life. [Laughs]
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