Alonzo, Gregory M

Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Ms. Greenbaum Alter moved to Atlanta in 1975, arriving after her graduation summa cum laude from The Ohio State University. She then attended Emory University School of Law, graduating in 1978.

Ms. Greenbaum Alter began her legal career in the office of Ray Gary, Sr., in Mableton, Georgia, and continued in private practice for 11 1/2 years. Her extensive experience includes representing individuals in domestic relations, juvenile, criminal, bankruptcy, and personal injury matters, as well as assisting clients with simple wills and probate matters. Ms. Alter has also practiced before various administrative agencies, including advocacy before the Social Security Administration for clients seeking social security disability. Her expertise in this area resulted in an invitation from the Social Security Administration to testily in Washington regarding the issue of attorney fees in disability cases.

Before taking a hiatus from the practice of law in 1990 to raise her children, Ms. Alter also served part lime as Assistant Solicitor for the Municipal Court of Marietta, prosecuting traffic cases. Upon her return to a full time legal career in 2001, Ms. Alter served as Staff Attorney for the Honorable Judge Kenneth O. Nix in the Superior Court of Cobb County, leaving in January of 2009 to join the law firm of Belli, Weil, Grozbean & Davis LLP. Ms. Greenbaum Alter joined Baskin & Baskin, P.C. in April of 2010.

Though practicing in other areas Ms. Alter has particular expertise in domestic relations matters, including divorce, separation, and child custody, including issues surrounding interstate custody disputes. She is a Registered Neutral with the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution as an Arbitrator and Mediator in civil and domestic cases, and has successfully mediated many cases to resolution.

Ms, Alter is admitted to practice in all State and Superior Courts in Georgia, the Georgia Court of Appeals, The Supreme Court of Georgia, the Supreme Court of Ohio (allowing practice in all lower Courts), the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Believing strongly in contributing 10 the legal profession through volunteer efforts, Ms. Alter served as a faculty member at the annual Family Law Institute in May of 2005, as speaker and chairperson for the Cobb Bar Association Family Law Seminar in December 2006 and as Program Chair for the Cobb Bar Association's monthly Family Law CLE meetings in 2006-2007. She also volunteered for the 2007 Law School Orientations on Professionalism.

Ms. Alter is a member of the Cobb County Bar Association, where she served on the board of trustees and as President of the Family Law Section in 2006-2007 and as vice president of the Family Law Section in 2007-2008. She is also a member of the Lawyer's Club of Atlanta, the Georgia Mediator's Association and the Cobb County Republican Women's Club.