The Firm
Statera Law is a private-client law practice structured to serve individuals and families navigating complex personal and intergenerational matters.
The firm focuses on matters where discretion, judgment, and long-term perspective are essential—often involving significant assets, sensitive family dynamics, and heightened confidentiality concerns.
A Deliberate and Selective Practice
The firm is intentionally structured to remain selective in both the matters it undertakes and the way it practices. Not every engagement is accepted. Matters are evaluated based on complexity, sensitivity, and the degree to which thoughtful counsel can meaningfully shape outcomes.
Judgment Before Action
Legal decisions in private family matters often carry consequences well beyond the immediate dispute. The firm’s role is not merely to execute legal processes, but to advise clients on when, how, and whether action is warranted.
Counsel is guided by experience, restraint, and an appreciation for both intended and unintended outcomes—inside and outside the legal forum.
Mechelle Y. Faulk
DIRECTING ATTORNEY
Mechelle Faulk excels at resolving her clients’ most personal and private matters, including those regarding wealth preservation, divorce, children, marital agreements, adoptions and cohabitation. She is an experienced litigator and negotiator, often representing high net worth clients’ complex financial issues and significant child-related matters. Mechelle’s knowledge of specialized industries enhances her value to clients, including professional athletes, Olympians, artists, collectors, owners of working interests in oil and gas, trust grantors and beneficiaries, music/concert promoters, musicians, hedge fund managers, individuals with family wealth, and business owners. With a high-profile clientele, Mechelle is especially sensitive to and adept at privacy concerns.
Patrick Landers
LITIGATION CONSULTANT
Patrick Landers serves as a case consultant at Statera Law, bringing deep legal knowledge and business acumen to complex family law matters involving substantial assets, business ownership, and wealth preservation. His background combines experience at two of the nation’s most prestigious law firms, Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. and Hughes, Hubbard & Reed in New York, with an MBA from Harvard Business School and more than a decade of senior executive leadership.
Patrick supports the firm’s work with business owners, executives, professionals, and individuals with family wealth facing sophisticated questions involving complex financial structures. His knowledge of business valuation, corporate governance, investment vehicles, and philanthropy enhances his analytical approach to matters involving closely held companies, professional practices, trust interests, private equity, and other intricate asset structures.
Mekayla J. Schock
ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY
Mekayla Schock is a litigation-trained attorney who brings substantial civil litigation experience to Statera Law’s family law practice. Before joining the firm, she managed a significant caseload of complex, multiparty matters involving individuals, families, businesses, insurers, and professionals.
Mekayla excels at substantive motion practice, depositions, expert witnesses, mediation, negotiation, and trial preparation. She is a careful and determined advocate who enjoys examining complicated factual and legal issues, developing creative strategies, and identifying details that others may overlook.