Ms. Rosenblatt is a Registered Nurse
with ten years of nursing and twenty-seven years of experience as a
practicing attorney. She has extensive, hands-on experience in elderly
care, aging parents and working with caregivers. She has worked in
hospitals and visited patients at home as a Public Health Nurse. Her law
practice involved litigation and trials. She is familiar with
insurance, financial and elder law issues. She is an experienced
mediator, helping resolve conflicts. She recently became contibuting
writer for Forbes.com
Ms. Rosenblatt received her nursing
diploma at O'Connor Hospital School of Nursing in 1969, her Bachelor of
Science degree in Nursing from the University of San Francisco in 1971
and her Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Francisco in
1978. She
was
employed as a nurse's aide in nursing homes with geriatric patients
during her studies. She began working as a nurse in acute hospitals,
nursing homes, and then moved to community health nursing, both in Los
Angeles County and in San Francisco. She visited thousands of geriatric
patients and other patients at home, caring for those with chronic,
debilitating illness, injuries, and physical and emotional problems
associated with aging.
She worked her way through law school
as a nurse, and upon passing the Bar Exam in 1978, moved into an
attorney position in a San Francisco law firm, where she began doing
litigation and trial work. She continued this work for about five years,
after which she started her own law practice in 1982. She represented
clients in personal injury, products and elder abuse cases, doing all
phases of litigation and trial work. She began to reduce her litigation
work to take extensive mediation training, beginning in 2003. Her
experiences in mediation revealed the need for doing consulting work
with seniors, aging parents and their families and caregivers. She began
Help With Elders.com with her husband, Dr. Davis in 2005 to fill the
need for a multi-discipline approach to assisting those concerned with
the needs of their aging parents and elders.
Ms. Rosenblatt maintains membership in
numerous professional organizations, and has served as past president
of Marin County Trial Lawyers Association, and Marin County Women
Lawyers. She has provided volunteer service in the community on several
non-profit organizations as a Board member, as well as serving as a
Director and officer of the Marin County Bar Association. Currently, she
serves on the Nurse Advisory Board of Ritter Center's Health Center,
which serves homeless adults in Marin County. She volunteers as a
settlement panelist for the Marin County Courts, and has volunteered as a
mediator at Marin Mediation Services.