What are some of your most satisfying successes of the past year and why? Seeing cases via an interdisciplinary lens also allows for creative legal solutions. Recently, the case of a four-year-old girl—who had been in foster care while her biological mother struggled with alcohol addiction—could have easily ended in a termination of her mother's parental rights and a lifetime of trying to fit into a forever family. Instead, understanding the cyclical nature of addiction and recovery, our office proposed a suspended judgment with specific terms that would keep the child safe. This solution would honor the work that the mother was trying to do towards gaining sobriety. Aided by this patience and understanding, the family safely reunified under the watchful eye of our social work staff, within the confines of a detailed and culturally competent legal framework. Upon resolution, the court, the attorney for the child, and the attorney for the mother all expressed gratitude for the agency's work and understanding of the barriers to reunification, so that problems could be solved, rather than legal relationships ended.