When a child is abducted across national borders, it takes speedy legal action to get him or her home safe and sound.

Rachel LeBlanc, a partner in Shutts & Bowen’s Fort Lauderdale office, is on the short list of lawyers the U.S. State Department calls when it needs to refer a case of a child brought to Florida. The commercial litigator has carved out a subspecialty handling abductions that violate the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.