Paralegals

Chrissy Welch

Paralegal

Chrissy Welch brings extensive experience in family law and public administration to the Law Office of David Meyer. She began her legal career working for a solo practitioner while earning both her Associate’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Paralegal Studies, building a strong foundation in client support, case management, and legal operations.

Chrissy later served for twelve years as the Dade County Public Administrator, where she handled highly detailed, high-responsibility legal work for incapacitated and disabled individuals. Her background reflects a strong commitment to accuracy, accountability, and professionalism.

She is a reliable support to both attorneys and clients and a valued member of the firm’s legal team.

Taylor Stewart

Legal Assistant

Taylor Stewart is a legal assistant with a strong foundation in organization, client support, and community advocacy. Through years of volunteer leadership and community outreach, she has developed practical skills in communication, problem-solving, and coordinating complex projects involving diverse groups of people.

Taylor has extensive experience managing volunteers, organizing events, coordinating resources, and working directly with individuals facing challenging circumstances. These experiences have strengthened her ability to remain calm under pressure, communicate clearly, and handle sensitive situations with professionalism and empathy.

She brings a detail-oriented approach to legal support, assisting with case organization, client communication, and administrative coordination while maintaining a strong commitment to integrity and accountability.

Taylor believes that every person and every story matters, and she is passionate about supporting work that helps people navigate difficult moments with clarity and dignity.

Kregg Halstead

Consultant

Kregg Halstead serves as a Paralegal for the Law Office of David Meyer. He holds a J.D. degree with distinction from the University of Iowa and a B.A. degree with honors from the University of Northern Iowa and passed the Iowa State Bar Examination on his first attempt. He completed a two-year Judicial Clerkship for the First Judicial District of Iowa, with family law matters comprising a large percentage of his assigned responsibilities. He also served as the Branch Office Director of Russin and Vecchi, LLC, a Washington D.C.-based US law firm assisting Western companies working in the Russian Far East on continental shelf oil and gas extraction. He also served as the Country Director for the American Bar Association's civil and criminal law reform program implemented in Armenia.

Building on these above positions for more than 25 years, Mr. Halstead worked on USAID or US Department of State funded rule of law, legal privatization, good governance, and election law projects being implemented in Bangladesh, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Pakistan, Russia, and Ukraine strengthening almost all aspects of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches as well as creating a functioning land market based on private ownership.

Mr. Halstead additionally served as a US Peace Corps volunteer in Kazakhstan from 1993 to 1995, being part of the first group of volunteers in that country, and has the official status of a “Returned Peace Corps Volunteer”. He is highly fluent in Russian, able to speak and present on any topic in Russian with ease.

A lover of sports, Mr. Halstead (in high school) was a two-year starter in basketball and played no. 1 man all four years; he reached the Iowa state tennis singles quarterfinals as a sophomore, semi-finals as a junior, and was part of the state championship doubles team as a senior.