DV LEAP receives an excellent opinion about custody and abuse from the D.C. Court of Appeals (August 2008)
DV LEAP receives a fabulous opinion about civil protection orders from the D.C. Court of Appeals! (July 2008)
DV LEAP's groundbreaking Symposium "Bringing a Custody and Abuse Case to the Supreme Court" is a huge success!!! (December 2007)
DV LEAP wins a major victory for victims of domestic violence and their abused children in the D.C. Court of Appeals! (July 2007)
Joan Meier receives ABA's Inaugural Sharon Corbitt Award
DV LEAP recently received a 2009 Washington Area Women's Foundation Leadership Award!
Ms. Meier was honored by Justice for Children on December 11th, 2007 for DV LEAP's work on behalf of battered women and their children.
DV LEAP received the Mary Byron Foundation's "Celebrating Solutions Award" as one of four programs creating a groundbreaking model for change (Fall 2006).
DV LEAP was selected through a highly competitive process for inclusion in the Washington area Catalogue for Philanthropy (2006-2007).
Ms. Meier was a lead commentator in PBS' documentary, Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories, which aired in Fall 2005.
DV LEAP's custody and abuse and Supreme Court work was profiled in a recent Women's E-News article.
Ms. Meier recently wrote a Letter to the Editor in the Washington Post about the recent tragedy in the Castillo case in Maryland.
Ms. Meier was recently quoted in a LA Times article regarding the Giles case currently before the Supreme Court.
DV LEAP's Executive Director Writes an Op-Ed about recent troubling Connecticut Supreme Court decision in a malicious prosecution case.