About

Israel, Van Kooy & Days, LLC, is a law firm that addresses the legal issues of families and small businesses. We work in the areas of divorce (including collaborative law, mediation, and litigation), estate planning and probate of estates, real estate, and taxation.

                                      from left to right,  Laura Days, Laurie Israel, Karen Van Kooy.

Laurie Israel, founder of the firm (formerly Law Offices of Laurie Israel) started her law career as a tax lawyer, and has interests in estate planning, marriage, and divorce.  She is an active divorce mediator and collaborative law attorney, and is also developing the area of “Mediation to Stay Married”, also known as Marital Mediation.  Laurie is on the board of the Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation, and a former board member of the Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council.  She writes for many on-line publications, including www.mediate.com and Huffington Post.  Her articles are posted on her websites, including www.yourfamilymatterslawblog.com and on the “Articles” page of the law firm’s main website, www.ivkdlaw.com

Karen Van Kooy,  is engaged in helping divorcing clients and others in family litigation move through the court system in the most humane way possible.  She works in divorce mediation, collaborative divorce, divorce negotation, as well as litigated and court-based divorces. 

Laura Days is an expert at helping clients buy and sell real estate, and works on the firm’s conveyancing practice.  She also handles estate planning, estate administration, and tax law.

Ronny Sydney, former selectman in Brookline and former state representative from Brookline, has a practice that includes divorce, permitting, zoning, and representation of small businesses.

Heather Hoffman is of-counsel to the firm in real estate, real estate titles and conveyancing.  She is also a great resource to the firm for consulting on a variety of real estate, estate administration, and tax issues.

Victoria Ellsworth is the firm’s paralegal and also serves as the firm’s financial coordinator.

Philippina Loh is our firm’s secretary and legal assistant.

Elaine Sidney works in file management, including off-site files, as well as office space updates. 

We all work together to give clients the best and most cost-effective legal experience that we can provide.