Janelle Orsi and Emily Doskow

Emily Doskow
Emily Doskow has been practicing family law in the Bay Area since 1989, specializing in LGBT family law including adoptions, domestic partnership agreements, parentage issues, and uncontested dissolutions. She is the author or coauthor of many Nolo titles, including Nolo’s Essential Guide to Divorce; Making it Legal: A Guide to Same-Sex Marriage, Domestic Partnerships, & Civil Unions; The Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples; and Neighbor Law. She is a graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley. Emily lives in Oakland and participates in a neighborhood work group as well as various other sharing arrangements.
Emily’s website

Janelle Orsi
Janelle is an attorney specializing in helping people share resources and create sustainable communities. She works with cooperatives, social enterprises, non-profits, community gardens, cohousing communities, ecovillages, and anyone else doing innovative work to change the world.

Janelle lives in “casual cohousing,” shares garden space and regular meals with her neighbors, takes part in a grocery co-op, shares an office space, and is always looking for new ways to share in her life.

Janelle can’t wait to see what the future looks like, when carsharing, mealsharing, community food gardens, cohousing, cooperatives, and tool lending libraries become part of everyone’s normal way of life. It will be a beautiful world!
Janelle’s web site