As part of the firm’s adoption and surrogacy practice, Ms. Dean has had the opportunity to help form families by representing adopting parents, foster parents, birth parents, adoptees, intended parents, surrogates, gestational carriers, and gamete donors, as well as agencies and clinics. She is a member of the Richmond Bar, the Virginia State Bar, the American Bar Association, the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, the Equality Bar, and the Metro Richmond Women’s Bar Association, where she currently co-chairs the Communications Committee.