Attorney Siew-Ling Shea has been working in family law since May 2001 — first as a paralegal and then as an attorney at Rogers, Shea & Spanos. She attended high school in Singapore and came to the United States for her undergraduate studies at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, as a scholarship student; and graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a double major in Communication and Sociology. Shea attended an accelerated paralegal program at Southeastern Paralegal Institute in Nashville, Tennessee (ABA approved), graduating with honors. Shea earned a Juris Doctor degree from the Nashville School of Law and is a member of Cooper’s Inn, an honorable society reserved for the top 10% of the graduating class.
Shea is licensed to practice law in the State of Tennessee and in the U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee. She is a Rule 31 Listed Civil Mediator and a trained collaborative divorce lawyer. Shea is also a Rule 21 Tennessee Supreme Court Approved Mentor Attorney for new lawyers.
Shea was the former Chair (June 2020 – May 2021) of the Tennessee Bar Association Family Law Executive Council, a statewide council of lawyers and judges involved in the formulation, improvement, and education, of family law; current Chair of the Alimony Bench Book committee of the Tennessee Bar Association, and organizes the authorship of an annual bench book for Judges on new statutory and caselaw developments to improve consistency in legal decision and to challenge legal precedents; Member, former Board Member and Director of Training for Middle Tennessee Collaborative Alliance (now Collaborative Divorce Nashville), and is committed to seeking a different way to resolve family disputes by preserving relationships; Professional memberships include: John Marshall American Inns of Court, Tennessee Association of Professional Mediators, Collaborative Divorce Nashville, Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association, Tennessee Bar Association, Nashville Bar Association, Williamson County Bar Association, and Lawyers Association for Women.
