About Us

The Law Offices of Allen M. Bailey handles divorce, child custody and domestic violence cases primarily in Anchorage but also throughout southcentral Alaska and statewide. Allen has extensive experience in cases involving interstate child custody issues, addiction and mental illness, and he has worked with men and women who were victims of domestic violence for more than 30 years. Office Manager Lisa L. McAlees has worked with the firm's clients since 1987 and provides paralegal assistance and other services to clients.

Lisa L. McAlees, Administrative Assistant, Paralegal and Office Manager

Lisa L. McAlees has been Allen's administrative assistant and paralegal since 1987 and is the office manager at the Law Offices of Allen M. Bailey. Lisa works well with clients who are going through difficult times and assists Allen in gathering the legal documents and evidence needed for hearings and trials during the litigation process.

Lisa also grew up in Anchorage and enjoys spending time with her children and grandchildren-especially attending their hockey and baseball games. She enjoys quilting and donation of her quilts to good causes such as Victims for Justice-and she loves to travel.

Allen M. Bailey, Attorney

Allen M. Bailey, J.D., is a former Associated Press writer and has practiced law in Anchorage, Alaska, since 1974. Allen grew up in Anchorage and graduated from Anchorage High School in 1961. He was the Anchorage Borough and Municipal Prosecutor for over ten years and has been a family lawyer since 1985. He has been counsel in more than 50 appeals before the Alaska Supreme Court and Alaska Court of Appeals.

Allen's non-legal interests include skiing, photographing Alaska's great natural beauty, collecting railroad books and Lionel trains, and building O-scale buildings for model railroads.

As a family lawyer, Allen's practice focuses primarily on child custody matters and on representing domestic violence victims in divorce, child custody and protective order cases. Allen is co-author of Alaska's statute establishing a presumption against placing a child in the legal or physical custody of a batterer. He wrote the chapter on "Child Custody Litigation Strategies" in The Impact of Domestic Violence on Your Legal Practice, ABA Commission on Domestic Violence, 2nd Ed. (2004), and reviewed Bancroft and Silverman, The Batterer As Parent; Addressing the Impact of Domestic Violence on Family Dynamics, and Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men for the 2005 domestic violence issue of the ABA Family Law Quarterly.

ACTIVITIES

Alaska Attorney General's 2011 Domestic Violence Pro Bono Award.
President, Abused Women's Aid in Crisis, Inc., 2010-2011.
Member, ABA Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence, 2006-2009.
Member ABA Family Law Section Council, 2011-2013.
Volunteer of the Year Award, MADD Alaska, 2006.
Chair, Child Custody Committee, ABA Family Law Section, 2009-2012
Outstanding Volunteer Award, ANDVSA Pro Bono Program, 2005.
Public Service Award, Alaska Women's Resource Center, 2004.
Member, Alaska Bar Association Family Law Section Executive Committee, 1999-present.
Member, Anchorage Domestic Violence Caucus.
Alaska reporter, ABA Family Law Quarterly, 2001-present.
Chair, Domestic Violence Committee, ABA Family Law Section, 2004-2006.
Member, Alaska Governor's Domestic Violence Summit, 1997.
Participant, Alaska Summit on Violence Against Women, 2004.
Member, Symposium on Children in Alaska's Courts, 2004.
Former president, Anchorage Chapter, Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
Public Service Award, Anchorage Mayor Tony Knowles, 1987.
Panelist, International Symposium on Alcohol and Driving, Washington, D.C., 1983.
Panelist, National Conference on Alcohol Countermeasures and Occupant Restraints, Detroit, 1982.
Member, Anchorage Mayor's Drunk Driving Task Force, 1984.
Certified instructor, Anchorage Police Academy, 1978-1984.
Instructor, Breath Test Instructor's School, Indiana University, 1983.
Co-author, Bailey, Bixby and Wingeleth, Alaska Drunk Driving Law, PLI (1983).