No Place Like Home—Whatever magic it took to help reconcile litigious teen Rachel Canning and her parents, their lawyer, Angelo Sarno, won’t say. But the reunion came within days of the family-law specialist coming on board in the case.

When Sarno, of Roseland’s Snyder & Sarno, was hired on Tuesday, he vowed to keep the case out of the courtroom, and he did, choosing the path of dialogue.