Ms. Annest is a Seattle native, she graduated cum laude and with high honors from Dartmouth College in 2000, where she captained the women’s volleyball team and was a visiting student at Oxford University. Ms. Annest received her J.D. with honors from the University of Washington School of Law in 2003 and served as a Notes and Comments Editor of the Washington Law Review. She spent the first 16 years of her career at Mills Meyers Swartling, P.S., and gained substantial litigation experience representing large and small businesses in a variety of contract, insurance, product liability, and real property matters. Ms. Annest served as President of the Western Washington chapter of the Dartmouth Alumni Association for years, and continued competing in volleyball tournaments with her USAV team. After adopting her daughter in 2008, she began building her family formation practice. Adoption, assisted reproduction, estate planning, and probate matters filled an increasingly large percentage of her time. Particularly after she and her husband adopted their son in 2010, the kids also filled an increasingly large percentage of her time. In 2015, Ms. Annest became a Fellow of the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys (fka the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys). In 2019, she joined the experienced adoption and estate planning team of Albert Lirhus and John Keckemet. Ms. Annest’s practice now includes all types of adoption, including complex situations involving ICWA and ICPC, step-, second-, and third-parent adoptions, contested adoptions, and birth parent representation. In addition, the 2019 revisions to Washington’s Uniform Parentage Act opened new possibilities for families pursuing assisted reproductive technologies. Surrogacy and gamete donation contracts represent a growing portion of her work.

Ms. Buie is the founder and CEO of Elise Buie Family Law. Her practice focuses on family law and serving as a guardian ad litem, advocating for children’s best interest in high-conflict divorce and dependency matters. Ms. Buie’s practice involves all aspects of family law: preparation of postnuptial and separation agreements, parenting plans, child support, simple and complex financial cases, relocation, and blended families. She is collaboratively trained and has had 40 hours of mediation training. Ms. Buie is an active member of the Washington Bar, a voluntarily inactive member of both the Minnesota Bar and the Louisiana Bar, and the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana. She is a member of the King County Bar Association (Family Law Section, Collaborative Law Section), the Snohomish County Bar Association, the Washington State Bar Association, (Family Law Section, CLE Committee), the Washington Women Lawyers, the National Association of Women Lawyers, The Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) (incoming president 2019 Washington Chapter), and the American Bar Association (Family Law Section and GP Solo Division, Family Law Committee, Juvenile Law Committee, Commission on Women in the Profession). She earned her J.D. degree from Loyola School of Law.

Mr. Hawthorne is a paralegal and Limited License Legal Technician with Just-in Case Family Law. He has been a paralegal for more than 11 years and was admitted to the Washington State Bar as an LLLT in 2021.

Mr. Khan’s practice emphasizes family law, bankruptcy, general litigation (including personal injury), and drafting simple wills. He is an experienced family law mediator and has published several articles, including co-writing the Family Law Deskbook chapter on prenuptial agreements. Mr. Khan has served as a pro tem family law commissioner at King County Superior Court. He is a former adjunct professor of family law in the paralegal program at Edmonds Community College. Mr. Khan is a member of the Illinois and Washington State Bars. He is also a member of the Washington State Bar Family Law and Bankruptcy Law sections, and King County Bar Association (and Family Law and Bankruptcy Law sections). He earned his J.D. degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology and his LL.M. degree from the University of Washington School of Law. 

Korey Twombly has been an experienced paralegal with Envision Family Law since February 2024, with prior paralegal roles at Morris | Sockle | Posadas and at the Washington State Department of Health as a Health Services Consultant. Ms. Twombly holds an associate of arts and sciences degree in Paralegal Studies from South Puget Sound Community College and an associate’s degree in Hospitality and Hotel Restaurant Management from Anne Arundel Community College. She is currently working towards a bachelor’s degree at The Evergreen State College.