Lawrence H Stotter

Now retired, Lawrence H. Stotter has been a nationally renowned trial lawyer, specializing in family law litigation. For more than twenty years he was annually recognized in each issue of Naifeh and Smith's The Best Lawyers in America. A past national chairman of the American Bar Association Section of Family Law and the founder and first editor-in-chief of the popular professional magazine Family Advocate, Stotter was the choice of the president of the American Bar Association and the then U.S...See more

Now retired, Lawrence H. Stotter has been a nationally renowned trial lawyer, specializing in family law litigation. For more than twenty years he was annually recognized in each issue of Naifeh and Smith's The Best Lawyers in America. A past national chairman of the American Bar Association Section of Family Law and the founder and first editor-in-chief of the popular professional magazine Family Advocate, Stotter was the choice of the president of the American Bar Association and the then U.S. Secretary of State to represent the United States in the drafting and negotiation of the Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction at the International Court, The Hague, Netherlands. Over several decades, in his avocation as a scholar and collector of antiquarian literature on family law, Stotter established a collection that included a copy of nearly every English-language treatise published on the subject over a span of more than four centuries. See less