About Alison C.
Alison C. Briggs built her career on the crossroads of social work and law. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and sociology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2007, followed by a Master of Social Work from Salem State College in 2011. She completed her Juris Doctor at Arizona Summit Law School in 2016. Those 3 degrees set the tone for a profession that moves among medical practice and legal service.
Her early work was in medical settings. In 2010 she labored as a clinician at The Home for Little Wanderers. She joined Southwest Human Development in 2013 as a clinician and served that identical year as a baby protective specialist for the State of Arizona. In 2015 she practiced as a clinical social employee at Aurora Behavioral Health System. The range of these roles uncovered her to child welfare systems, company operations and direct client care.
In 2016 she took on a role that bridged her two professions: client offerings manager at My Arizona Lawyers. The position brought her to the operational side of legal practice and to client intake, case management and coordination among professionals. It additionally marked a shift towards sustained work inside a regulation workplace environment whilst maintaining clinical perception in play.
Briggs holds expert licensure in social work. She is a Licensed Master Social Worker thru the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners and a Licensed Certified Social Worker in Massachusetts. She is likewise a member of the State Bar of Minnesota and the State Bar of South Dakota. She is admitted to practice in Arizona, Minnesota and South Dakota.
Her background offers her a point of view grounded in each healing practice and legal process. She draws on experience in baby defensive offerings and behavioral fitness to assess facts from multiple angles. That background influences how she evaluates client needs, communicates with agency personnel and prepares for administrative and court hearings.
Colleagues and clients describe her as steady in the intake room and methodical in the workplace. She has moved from direct medical work to roles that require translating medical information into legal strategy and client counseling. The transition reflects a curiosity in resolving problems that originate in household and social structures but require legal treatments.
She practices at My Arizona Lawyers, PLLC, where her work centers on matters that sit on the intersection of family issues, child welfare and administrative proceedings.
