Kessler & Solomiany, LLC Celebrity Cases Archives

Randy Kessler was invited on The News on Merit Street to discuss the divorce between Jennifer Lopez and Ben Afflek. You can watch the full interview below:

Randy Kessler has been coaching NFL agents and players for 25 years on family law intricacies like child support and prenuptial agreements, advising them on financial and legal pitfalls. Known for representing celebrities, Kessler guides young, often unprepared athletes through personal and legal challenges, emphasizing the importance of wise decision-making despite sudden fame and fortune. […]

Randy Kessler was recently interviewed on Fox 5 to discuss the semantics and details of Nathan Wade’s, special prosecutor for Fulton County, divorce. Watch the interview here. 

I wanted people to have hope, to understand the process and to understand that there actually is a process. There are answers to the questions they have and that they will have.

I didn’t do anything complex or change anything or anyone, but I did my little part, using the knowledge I have, to try to improve lives. And that made the day wholly worthwhile.

…when there is a lot of money combined with potential for a lot of negative public publicity, cases resolve quickly

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were getting divorced. I didn’t have too much to add, except to say that rich or poor, famous or not, everyone should try to reach settlement of their own issues, and I am sure they will do their best to do that.

While there certainly is more than one way to work with the press, I have found that being forthcoming with the media, even if my answer is “I don’t know”, or “I know but cannot and will not say”, has been the best.

I have been very fortunate to have been invited to speak on high profile and high asset divorce recently.

Using lawyers to do their communicating often has its limits and almost always, celebrities figure out what they want to do and then tell their lawyers to “make it so”.