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Janet Ours received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from West Virginia Wesleyan College and practiced clinical nursing in the areas of emergency and trauma care, cruise ship nursing, medevac flight nursing along with the development of new health care programs and hospital/health care systems for twenty five years. Ms. Ours earned her Juris Doctorate from the George Mason University School of Law and now practices health law and family law. She is a member of The American Academy of Adoption Attorneys, The American Association of Nurse Attorneys, the Prince William Bar Association, and the American Association of Trial Attorneys.

Adoption is a particular passion of Ms. Ours. She has represented adoptive parents, birth parents, children and foster parents in adoption settings throughout Northern Virginia. Adoption law in Virginia is very statute-based and is best undertaken with an experienced adoption attorney. Ms. Ours is experienced in all aspects of adoption representation to include interstate adoptions, contested adoptions and social service adoptions. Preparation of portfolios for prospective adoptive parents and guidance through the entire process is provided. Come see our happy wall of baby pictures.

Building on a career of working with people in crisis, Ms. Ours practices family law with a philosophy that building family cooperation and working toward successful negotiated resolution of disputes is almost always in the long term best interests of all the family members. Except for cases involving domestic abuse or severe imbalances of power between parties. Ms. Ours encourages and works with clients and families to resolve issues whenever possible. Families able to cooperate are much more likely to achieve results that optimize the childrens' and the parties best interests.

Ms. Ours also believes that attempts at negotiation and cooperation, while certainly entered into in good faith and with high expectations, should also be carefully and strategically monitored by wise counsel focused on protecting the client's interests and preserving strategies litigation. One of Ms. Ours' particular strengths is her utilization of insightful judgment and advice specifically tailored for each family situation and, when necessary, her aggressive litigation skills. Just as the clinical skills of emergency, trauma, or medevac nursing, are basic requirements upon which to build a practice in those settings, the true bedrock foundation of Ms. Ours' law practice is a solid grasp and love of litigation skills and practice.

Janet Ours practices health law in acting as corporate counsel for health care practices and institutions, defending individual health care practitioners in disciplinary matters or peer review matters, and in advocating for health care consumers in specific settings. Dedicated professionals who have devoted their careers to helping other people deserve and receive equally dedicated and aggressive defense of their clinical or corporation practice. Ms. Ours has a true understanding of the realities of clinical practice today within actual practical settings and can bring this practical approach to meeting clinical and regulational standards.

As the growing impact of regulatory issues collides with health care and the practice of health care delivery, advice and planning to practice managers and clinicians becomes even more critically important and time-sensitive.

Ms. Ours has published in professional journals on the issues of Violence in the Emergency Department, Legal Issues of Competent I.V. Therapy, (EMTALA) Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act and the impact on care givers of rape patients.

Ms. Ours lives with her husband and three teenage sons, plays guitar and sings in her church praise band and is often seen bringing a kayak in her car to outlying Court locations so as to someday attain her personal goal of paddling every Virginia waterway. Ms. Ours believes that her faith provides the philosophical foundation for her practice of law, her family constantly reminds her of the joys and difficulties of parenting and family life and her kayaking keeps her physically fit and mentally sharp.