Admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia, the US District Court for the District of Columbia, and the US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit.
Southern manners and a comprehensive knowledge of the law and legal procedure have given Dorrance a well-earned reputation as an excellent negotiator, litigator, and appellate lawyer. Admitted in DC and federal courts, Dorrance chose the law after career experience in college teaching, health sciences, and government. Having begun his career in law early in 1995, he joined Deborah Luxenberg and Stephen D. Johnson soon thereafter. By 1998, the firm became Luxenberg, Johnson, & Dickens, PC.
Widely recognized as an expert on the law of evidence, Dorrance has spoken in the U.S., the U.K. and the European Union concerning special evidentiary rules in international child abduction cases. He is also an expert in the rules for certification and recognition of child custody orders and determinations rendered by foreign countries both at the trial and at the appellate level. An active author, Dorrance has served on the editorial board for the International Commentary on Evidence for 13 years.
Mr. Dickens’ clients have included members of the senior White House staff, ambassadors, cabinet secretaries, deputy and assistant secretaries, foreign ministers, Peers, professional sports figures, wives of professional sports figures, chief executives and wives of chief executives of Fortune 100 companies.
A frequent lecturer on various aspects of family, evidentiary, and procedural law both in the United States and abroad, Mr. Dickens has lectured at law schools and continuing legal education seminars. Since 1996, Mr. Dickens has regularly participated in presenting national and international seminars and training conferences on family, evidentiary, procedural, and ethics law for the education of judges, lawyers, law students, and lay people in such varied venues as the Hague, the University of Leiden, London, Belfast, and Edinburgh.