ABOUT STEVE:
Steve Plaisted, of PeaceLaw, located in Gaithersburg, Maryland, is a Christian attorney and mediator you can trust who shares your values and who will help you find the path of peace in your unique circumstances. Visit each subject area page on the PeaceLaw website to learn more about Steve’s areas of expertise.
Whether as a Maryland Christian divorce lawyer who tries to help clients avoid divorce, as a collaborative attorney, conflict coach or mediator, Steve Plaisted integrates the power of peacemaking with the practice of law to help people in difficult circumstances find creative and peaceable solutions to problems that might otherwise result in hostile and costly litigation and broken relationships.
Steve’s almost 30 years of experience with family law combined with his training in Biblical peacemaking and Biblical counseling, his status as a Certified Christian Conciliator since 2005 through Peacemaker Ministries and the Institute for Christian Conciliation and his heart of love and compassion for individuals and couples enables him to serve others in many different circumstances with excellence and empathy.
Steve Plaisted is NOT the aggressive lawyer who will help you fight for your rights. Instead, he will help you make peace with your adversary and reconcile relationships. Whether he is providing legal representation and coaching for individuals, including collaborative law representation, or mediation, including divorce mediation and marriage renovation mediation, he can help you avoid spending your life savings on legal fees and litigation expenses and avoid developing a heart of bitterness, resentment and unforgiveness and leaving a legacy of pain and brokenness for your children and grandchildren. He can help you find renewed hope and the path to a brighter future characterized by peace and joy through an intimate relationship with your creator.
Since 1991, Christian lawyer Steve Plaisted has provided residents of Gaithersburg, Maryland (Montgomery County as well as surrounding counties) legal assistance with auto accident personal injury claims, wills, trusts, estate planning, probate, all aspects of family law, including adoptions, and a variety of other legal matters. Attorney Steve Plaisted is available to assist you with convenient and affordable consultations from his Gaithersburg, Maryland office.
HOW TO SET UP YOUR INITIAL CONSULTATION: Contact Steve Plaisted TODAY at either PlaistedLaw@aol.com or call 301.762.7877.
AVAILABILITY: Steve Plaisted is available for appointments from about 10:00 a.m. through 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday (afternoon appointments should not start later than 4:00) and most Saturday afternoons. To accommodate clients, Steve is also available evenings as his schedule permits.
WHERE: Steve Plaisted’s convenient Gaithersburg office (113 Billingsgate Lane, Gaithersburg, MD 20877) is in a quiet neighborhood located near Mid-County Highway and Woodfield Road which is minutes away from I-270 and the Shady Grove Metro with parking just a few steps from the office entrance.
EDUCATION and BAR ADMISSIONS:
Norwich Technical High School (formerly Norwich Regional Vocational Technical School), Norwich, CT, graduated 1976
Three Rivers Community College (formerly Mohegan Community College), Norwich, CT (A.A., 1984)
Connecticut College, New London, CT (B.A., 1987) Honors: Summa Cum Laude (highest honors), member Phi Beta Kappa national honor society, member Pi Sigma Alpha national political science honor society, recipient of Anne Corbett DeVille Memorial Prize for outstanding work in American history.
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. (J.D., 1990), participated with the Criminal Justice Clinic, the Christian Legal Society and Justice Fellowship (a division of Prison Fellowship)
ADMITTED TO THE MARYLAND BAR (1990)
IMPORTANT ASSOCIATIONS
1987 – Present, member Christian Legal Society
1987 – Present, member Covenant Life Church
2005 – Granted status as a Certified Christian Conciliator by the Institute for Christian Conciliation (formerly known as Peacemaker Ministries)
2009 – Present, volunteer attorney with the Good Samaritan Advocates legal aid clinic
2018 – Awarded “Attorney of the Year” from Good Samaritan Advocates Christian legal aid organization
Originally from Waterford, Connecticut, Steve Plaisted moved to Maryland in 1987 to attend Georgetown University Law Center. Married to the former Pam Bassett since 1995 and father to one adult daughter, Steve enjoys golf, the outdoors, spending time with family, friends and church, Chipotle burritos, dark roast coffee and chocolate.
ABOUT PAM:
Known as Pam Bassett in the voice over industry, Pam was an announcer at several DC area Christian radio stations in the 80’s and 90’s. Her voice was MCI’s official worldwide English operator voice in the 90’s through its acquisition by Verizon in 2006 on such products as Calling Cards (including prepaid), 1-800-COLLECT, Directory Assistance, voice mail (“The Neighborhood By MCI”) and more. Since 2004 she has recorded and edited a variety of scripts for clients from her home studio. Her voice over website is PamBassett.com and you can also see/hear some of her voice over/video work on her YouTube channel at here. You can also hear her recorded greeting when you call the PeaceLaw office at 301.762.7877.
In a “hard-to-believe-it’s-true story”, before attending college, Pam worked a year as a receptionist at the U.S. Department of Justice in the Antitrust Division. Section Chief Gerald A. Connell and others in the Division were successful several years later in their blockbuster antitrust case against AT&T which led Judge Harold Greene to to oversee the breakup of AT&T’s monopoly which provided a way for MCI to effectively compete against AT&T (and eventually give Pam a job in 1993, less than ten years after the landmark breakup).
(So, if you’ve got a phone, you’ve got a lawyer and an ‘operator’. 😉)
Outside of media jobs, Pam’s jobs developed her administrative skills, including working in the 401(k) area in the Benefits Department (corporate office) of Lockheed Martin (formerly Martin Marietta). Another one of those jobs, before the birth of their daughter, included working sporadically with her husband Steve (of PeaceLaw) on personal injury cases.
Later she worked on her own PI (personal injury) case so she understands first hand some of the challenges in dealing with the medical and legal angles in treating injuries as well as the personal trauma of attempting to get back to “normal”.
Her experience in understanding specific family dynamics led to an interest in counseling before she was married and which gives her insight in working with clients of PeaceLaw.
Additionally, she has attended court cases with Steve and testified twice as a witness in a criminal trial. (She was the victim of a crime by an intruder over thirty years ago in which she experienced the hand of God deliver her from her attacker. Unfortunately, the attacker was never caught.)
One of Pam’s interests is medical advocacy which is helpful to those with personal injury cases. She enjoys human interest stories, genealogy/DNA testing, meeting new people, “Adventures in Odyssey”, CAVA salads, sweet tea, good puns, and comics in addition to laughter during family game nights, shopping or watching favorite shows with their daughter and talk time with Steve over CAVA and Chipotle meals enjoyed in their car on sunny days. For five years she served as a liaison between the City of Gaithersburg’s police department and her community as a Neighborhood Watch Coordinator.
Pam has received Conflict Coaching and Mediation training from Ambassadors of Reconciliation.
She looks forward to serving clients through PeaceLaw and through her voice over entity, PB’s VoxFlavors. (You can see and hear 😉 some of her work here.)
PRONUNCIATION OF MARRIED NAME ~ Plaisted [Play-sted] and as Pam says all the time, “like you’d rather play instead” 😉.
