Daniel C. Berezoski’s work before his appointment to Division 40 illustrates a distinction easily lost in accounts of family court. From 2012 to 2015 he worked in the Office of the Juvenile Officer. Then, in Husch Blackwell’s pro bono practice, he represented parents in abuse, neglect and termination proceedings. He also received appointments to represent young people and to serve as a guardian ad litem.
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The judges of the Sixteenth Circuit appointed Berezoski commissioner in June 2023. His professional training began with an undergraduate degree in genetics at Texas A&M and continued at the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law. The circuit’s biography records service on several family-court committees as well as the work of representing individual clients.
Commentary by John Hajicek
A news account that calls everyone at counsel table an officer of the court tells a family very little. A parent’s lawyer and a lawyer appointed to represent a child may be in the same room for quite different reasons. Citizens can investigate the structure of these offices without publishing children’s private histories. That is the ground on which I write this profile.