Mark Ressa was admitted to the Californiain 1979 and the Federal Bar in 1985. He limits his practice exclusively to family law matters including complex litigation, spousal and child support, paternity, high conflict custody disputes and domestic violence. His office is located in San Ramon and practices primarily in the Bay Area counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateoand Solano.

He is a member of the Family Law Executive Committee of the California State Bar (2008-2013), Chair-Elect (2012-2013), Vice-Chair (2011-2012), Legislation Chair (2010-2011), Vice Legislation Chair (2009-2010), Editor of the Family Law Section's eNews (2008-2010) and Vice-Chair for the Family Law Section's Online Continuing Education (2008-2009). He is a member of the State Bar Social Media Task Force (2010-2012) that will be instrumental in launching FaceBook™ and Twitter™ sites for the State Bar Sections.

Prior to his appointment to FLEXCOM, he served as Chair (2006-2008) and Vice-Chair (2005-2006) of the State Bar Family Law Section’s Bay Area Regional Standing Committee, formerly known as Financial Issues North. He is a member of the state and local bar associations.

Mr. Ressa created and marketed the first Windows™ based child / spousal support calculation program to be certified for court use by the California Judicial Council; i.e., SupportPro™ from 1994 to 1998. He served with other software providers, including family law luminaries Steve Adams, Garrett Dailey and George Norton, to advise the California Judicial Council on the standards to be applied for the use of software in courtrooms. Mr. Ressa co-founded Legal dot Net in 1995, internationally recognized as one of the first leading web sites to serve the needs of legal consumers as well as legal professionals (i.e., rated a World Top 100 website in 1996).

Mr. Ressa’s interest in developing social media has resulted in one of the most followed Twitter™ site for a practicing attorney, @BayAreaDivorce with over 114 thousand followers.

He has lectured to various bar associations, including Inns of Court, the Orange County Bar Association, and the Orange County Women Lawyers Association. Recently he has lectured for the State Bar’s Section Education Institute and the Family Law Section (2008, 2009). In 2010 lectured for the Family Law Section at the Annual Convention and in November for CEB (i.e., Continuing Education of the Bar). He lectured for the Law Education Institute in Vail, Colorado in January 2011, Association for California Family Law Specialists (ACFLS) 2011 Spring Seminar (April 2011), (Reno, NV) Nevada Judicial Education Symposium (April 2011), State Bar - Solo and Small Practice Summit (June 2011) and the 84th Annual Meeting for the California Bar (September 2011). He will lecture again at the Solo and Small Practice Summit (June 2012) in Long Beachand the 85^th Annual Meeting for the California Bar inMonterey (October 2012). He will also lecture for the ACFLS Bay Area and Sacramento (TBA).