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ROSTER OF NEUTRAL EVALUATORS FOR THE
MATRIMONIAL NEUTRAL EVALUATION PROGRAM
Name and Contact
Information
Admissions
Education
Legal Background
ADR Training and Experience
Harold B. Beeler, Esq.
60 East 42nd Street, 40
th Fl.
New York,. NY 10165
Tel. (212) 687-3822
Fax (212) 687-3833
New York, 1
st
Dept. 1975
United States
District Court
Eastern and
Southern
District of New
York, 1986
New York University
Law School, LLM,
1987
Harvard Law School,
Cum Laude, JD, 1974
University of
Michigan, Magna
Cum Laude, BA, 1967
Phi Beta Kappa
$Private Law Practice specializing
in Family Law Mediation,
Arbitration and Litigation 2010-
Present
$National Arbitration and Mediation
(NAM) Hearing Officer for Personal
Injury and Commercial Mediation
and Arbitration 2010-Present
$Justice (Acting) of the Supreme
Court of the State of New York
1991-2009 (retired)
$Judge of the Civil Court of the City
of New York 2007-2009 (retired)
$Judge of the Civil Court of the City
of New York 1998-2007
$Judge of the Civil Court of the City
of New York 1988-1997
$New York Super Lawyers, Family
Law, New York City Metro, 2010-
2012
$Special Master to mediate appeals
in Matrimonial cases, First
Department, New York State
Appellate Division, Dec, 2010-
Present
$Honored by the Matrimonial Law
Section, NYCLA, June 2008
$Continuing Education panelist,
AConsulting Attorneys in Divorce
Mediation,@The Family and Divorce
Mediation Council of Greater New
York, 2011
$Member, New York State Bar
Association, Family Law Section
$Member, Association of the Bar of
the City of New York
$Member, New York State Council
on Divorce Mediation
$Member, Family and Divorce
Mediation Council of Greater New
York
$Center for Mediation & Training,
Completion of Training in Divorce
Mediation, 2009
$Center for Mediation in Law,
Completion of Mediation Intensive
Training Program, 2009
$New York State Bar Association,
Commercial Mediation Training
Program, 2012
Barry Berkman, Esq.
Berkman Bottger Newman &
Rodd, LLP
521 Fifth Avenue, 31st Fl.
New York, NY 10175
New York, 1966
United States
District Court
Southern and
Harvard College, BA,
1962
Stanford University
Law School, LL.B.,
$Member, Association of the Bar of
the City of New York
$Member, New York State Bar
Association
$American Bar Association (Former
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
Tel. (212) 867-9123
Fax (212) 983-8526
Two Overhill Road
Scarsdale, NY 10583
Tel. (914) 308-3435
7 Mount Bethel Road
Warren, NJ 07059
Tel. (908) 505-0047
Eastern Districts
of New York,
1968
1965 Member, Task Force on Standards of
Practice in Mediation)
$New York Association of
Collaborative Professionals
(Founding Member)
$Areas of Practice: Divorce,
Collaborative Law, Divorce
Mediation, Family Law, Equitable
Distribution, Marital Agreements,
Postnuptial Agreements, Prenuptial
Agreements, Separation Agreements,
Spousal Support, Alimony, Marital
Property Distribution, Marital
Property Settlements, Paternity and
Post-divorce Modification
Jane Bevans, Esq.
900 West End Ave, Ste. 8B
New York, NY 10025
Tel. (212) 868-1818
New York, 1982
New York University,
BS
Brooklyn Law School,
JD
$Over 23 years of matrimonial law
experience
$Bar Association of the City of NY,
Matrimonial Committee 2009 -12;
Secretary to Committee on Military
Affairs and Military Justice
$Women=s Bar Association of NY,
Matrimonial Committee; director &
former chair of legislative committee
$NYCLA, former member
Matrimonial Committee
$Trial and Appellate practice in first
and second departments; practiced
before courts in many counties
including NY, Bronx, Staten Island,
Kings, Queens, Westchester,
Rockland, White Plains.
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$Court sponsored collaborative law
training
$Mediation training
$Advanced interdisciplinary
collaborative practice training
Peter E. Bronstein, Esq.
Bronstein Van Veen LLC
950 Third Avenue, 24th Fl.
New York, NY 10022
Tel. (212) 956-8300
m
New York, 1968
Virginia, 1968
Harvard College
University of Virginia
Law School
$Over 40 years of matrimonial
experience
$Member, New York State Bar
Association, Family Law Section
(Executive Committee)
$Member, New York City Bar
Association
$Member, American Academy of
Matrimonial Lawyers
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
Kenneth David Burrows, Esq.
Attorney at Law
950 Third Avenue, 32nd Floor
New York, NY 10022
Tel. (212) 980-6922
Fax (212) 980-6161
New York, 1971
Connecticut,
1991
Brown University BA,
1962
Fordham University
School of Law JD,
1970
$Practiced Matrimonial Law since
1970. Currently a solo practitioner
$Member, Association of the Bar of
the City of New York
$Member, Women=s Bar Association
$Member, New York County
Lawyers Association, Matrimonial
Law Committee.
$Member, Board of Managers of the
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$Former mediator for the United
States District Court for the Southern
District of New York; received 12.0
hours of training.
$Served as a special master in
Connecticut=s Matrimonial Neutral
Evaluation and Mediation program
New York Chapter of the American
Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
$Fellow, American Academy of
Matrimonial Lawyers
$Fellow, International Academy of
Matrimonial Lawyers
$Served on the Matrimonial Law
Committee of the Association of the
Bar of the City of New York
$Member, National Board of Trail
Advocates
Jay R. Butterman, Esq.
Butterman & Kahn, LLP
219 East 31st
New York, NY 10016
Tel. (212) 308-7697
m
New York, 1989
Vassar College
BA, 1983
Yeshiva University
JD, 1988
$Founder and senior partner of
Butterman & Kahn, LLP, an AV
rated law firm, known for its work in
matrimonial and family law, as well
as commercial, intellectual property
and general civil litigation
$Mr. Butterman has been lead
counsel in trials involving every
aspect of matrimonial law, including
numerous well-publicized cases, and
has also served as counsel on a wide
variety of commercial, real estate,
and intellectual property cases in
both litigation and transactional
contexts
$Mr Butterman and his firm also
advise businesses and individuals on
commercial matters of many types
and in many venues. The firm=s
strengths also include real estate and
commercial transactional work for
businesses and high net worth
individuals.
$Mr Butterman has strong expertise
in the division of art and are-related
businesses in the context of divorce
proceedings.
$Mr. Butterman has lectured to the
baron matrimonial subjects and
continuing legal educations
programs through the Cardozo
School of Law and the Hadassah
Attorneys= Counsel.
$Member, New York State Bar
Association
$Member, Association of the Bar of
the City of New York
$Member, the American Trial
Lawyers Association
$Member, Brooklyn Bar Association
$Board Member and Senior Notes
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
and Comments Editor, Cardozo Arts
and Entertainment Law Journal
$Advisory Board Member, Family
Law Program, Benjamin N. Cardozo
School of Law, 2005 to date
$Moot Court Honor Society
$Dr. Samuel Belkin Scholar
Dawn M. Cardi, Esq.
Dawn Cardi & Associates
2 Park Avenue, 19th Fl.
New York, NY 10016
Tel. (212) 481-7770
Fax (212) 684-3008
http://cardiedgarlaw.com/
New York
United States
District Court
Eastern and
Southern
District of New
York
United States
Court of
Appeals, 2nd
Circuit
Fordham University,
Cum Laude, BA
Columbia University
Teacher=s College
Master=s Program
Pace University Law
School - Law Review,
JD
$Legal Aid Society Criminal
Defense Division staff attorney and
supervisor of 25 plus trial attorneys
$Baden Kramer Huffman Brodsky
and Go, practiced corporate law
$Private Practice: Specialized in
Family and Matrimonial Law and
Federal Criminal Defense
$Attorney for the Child, Appellate
Division First Department
$18B Screening Committee for the
Appellate Division First Department
$Member, Association of the Bar of
the City of New York, Matrimonial
Committee, Children and the Law
Committee, Women in the Courts
Committee
$Board of Directors: Brooklyn
Young Mother=s Collective:
Assisting teenage mothers to
continue education and participate in
other parenting programs
$Board of Director: Childbirth
Connection
$Presented on various family,
divorce and criminal law topics in a
variety of forums
$Extensive trial matrimonial, family
and criminal defense trial experience
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$NASD arbitrator
$Divorce mediation training with
Jack Himmelstein
$Court-sponsored mediation training
Acted as a mediator in contested
divorce cases
Harriet Newman Cohen, Esq.
Cohen Rabin Stine Schumann
LLP
11Times Square Tower - 10th Fl.
W. 41st Street & 8
th Avenue
New York, NY 10036
Dir. Dial: (212) 512-0801
General Tel: (212) 512-0825
E-Fax: (212) 214-0330
General E-Fax: (212)202-6100
www.crsslaw.com
New York, 1975
Federal Eastern
District 1975
Federal
Southern
District 1975
2nd Circuit 1975
recently
renewed 2011
Barnard College BA,
Bryn Mawr College
MA,
Brooklyn Law School
JD, 1974
$38 years of experience
$Member of all the New York Bar
Associations
$Past President, NYWBA
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$Training in collaborative law and
mediation, Association of the Bar of
the City of New York
Briana Denney, Esq.
Parmet Zhou & Denney LLC
60 East 42nd Street, 40
th Floor
New York, NY 10165
New York, 2007
University of Arizona,
Psychology, BA, 1999
City University of
$Newman & Denney - Partner -
2011-Present; practice exclusively in
family and matrimonial law
$Slade & Newman - associate -
$6.0 hours of court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
Tel. (212) 819-0555
Fax (212) 840-2288
New York JD, 2006 2008-2010; practice concentration in
family and matrimonial law
$Unified Court System - court
attorney, Justice Rosalyn Richter -
2006-2008: Justice assigned to
general civil part, then a dedicated
matrimonial part
$Law Office of Susan Kunstler - law
clerk - 2004-2006: practice
concentration in family and
matrimonial law
$Co chair: New York County
Lawyers= Association, Matrimonial
Committee, 2011-2014; New York
Women=s Bar Association, Family
Law & Matrimonial Committee,
2009-2011
$Member, New York County
Lawyers= Association
$Member, New York City Bar,
Matrimonial Law Committee
$Member, New York Women=s Bar
Association
$Member, Interdisciplinary Forum
on Mental Health and Family Law
$Member, Association of Family
and Conciliation Courts
$Member, New York State Bar
Association
Sherri F. Donovan, Esq.
Sherri Donovan & Associates,
P.C.
305 Broadway, Suite 555
New York, NY 10007
Tel. (212) 431-9076
Fax (212) 431-9596
New York, 2
nd
Dept. 1986
Supreme Court
of the Unites
States, 2011
Southern and
Eastern
Districts,
District Courts,
1990
London School of
Economics
Bennington College,
BA 1982
New York Law
School, Cum Laude,
JD 1985
$Over 25 years of experience in
Matrimonial law
$Professor of Family Law at the
Gordon F. Derner Institute of
Advances Psychological Studies,
Adelphi University
$Owner of law firm since 1988
$Member, New York State Bar
Association, Family Law Committee
$Member, Women=s Bar
Association, Matrimonial Committee
$Member, New York County Bar
Association, Matrimonial Committee
$Member, Association of Family
and Conciliation Courts
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$Completion of 42 hour mediation
training, Center for Mediation
Training, Association for Conflict
Resolution (2011)
$Advanced Parenting Coordination
certification with Conflict Resolution
Collaborative, 14 hour training
$CLEs on matrimonial law for the
City Bar Association and New York
County Lawyers Association
$Member, Academy of Professional
Family Mediators
$Lectured on Family Law for the
United Nations; New York City Bar
Association; New York County Bar
Association; Association of Divorce
Financial Planners and Academy of
Professional Family Mediators.
$Co-chair of New York County
Lawyers Association Family Court
& Child Welfare Committee
$Super Lawyers 2017
Michael T. Etzrodt, Esq.
Bender Rosenthal LLP
451 Park Avenue South, 8th Fl.
New York, NY 10013
Tel. (212) 725-7111
Fax (212) 725-3737
New York, 1997
New Jersey,
1998
United States
Eastern District
for the Southern
and Eastern
Districts of New
York, 1998
United States
District Court
for New Jersey,
1998
Franklin & Marshall
College, BA in
Business
Administration, 1985
Brooklyn Law School,
JD 1996
$Private Practice in Matrimonial
Law (95% of practice) since 1997
$Member, New York State Bar
Association
$Member, American Bar
Association
$Member, Women=s Bar Association
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
Samuel J. Ferrara, Esq.
Abrams, Fensterman,
Fensterman, Eisman, Formato,
Ferrara & Einiger, LLP.
1111 Marcus Avenue, Suite 107
Lake Success, NY 11042
Tel. 516-328-1316
New York, 1995
Massachusetts
1995
Boston University,
BA/MA 1991
Hofstra University
School of Law, JD
1994
$Partner and Co-Director of the
Matrimonial Law Department,
Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman,
Eisman, Formato, Ferrara & Einiger,
LLP.
$Matrimonial & Family Law
Practitioner for over eighteen (18)
years
$Fellow, American Academy of
Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML)
$New York Super Lawyer, 2008-
2011 (a distinction earned by only
five percent of the attorneys in the
New York metro area)
$Named one of the Top 10
Matrimonial and Family Attorneys
under the age of 45 in Long Island
by Ten Leaders
$Adjunct Professor, Hofstra
University
$Board of Directors, Parent
Education and Custody Effectiveness
Program (P.E.A.C.E.)
$Frequent Lecturer, Association for
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$40-hour court-sponsored
matrimonial mediation training (2009)
$Mediator, Nassau County
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Program (AMAP@) (2011)
Family & Conciliation Courts
(AFCC), New York State Bar
Association, Nassau County Bar
Association and National Academy
of Law
$Board of Directors, AFCC-New
York Chapter
$Member, Nassau County Bar
Association, Matrimonial Committee
& Judiciary Committee, Suffolk
County Bar Association, American
Bar Association
Jenifer J. Foley, Esq.
Alter, Wolff & Foley LLP
810 7th Avenue, Suite 3600
New York, NY 10019
Tel. (212) 218-5375
New York, 2001
State University of
New York at Albany,
Cum Laude, BA 1985
Benjamin N. Cardozo
School of Law, Cum
Laude, Order of the
Coif, JD 2000
$Matrimonial and Family Law
practice, Alter, Wolff & Foley LLP
(2016-current)
$Matrimonial and Family Law
practice, Kasowitz, Benson, Torres
& Friedman LLP (2005-2016)
$Commercial litigation, Stroock &
Stroock & Lavan LLP (2000-2005)
$Member, New York State Bar
Association, Family Law Section
$Member, Matrimonial Law
Committee, New York City Bar
Association (2008-Current)
(former Secretary and Chair of
Committee, 2011-2017) (Delegate to
NYSBA House of Delegates, 2017-
current)
$Former Secretary and chair of
Matrimonial Committee of the New
York City Bar Association, 2011-
2017
$Delegate to NYSBA House of
Delegates, 2017-Current
$Member, New York Women’s Bar
Association
$Lectures on Matrimonial and
Family Law
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$40 hour Family & Divorce
Mediation Training with New York
Center for Interpersonal Development
Donald Frank, Esq.
Blank Rome LLP
405 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10174
Tel. (212) 885-5478
New York, 2
nd
Dept, 1969
Lafayette College, BA
1966
New York Law
School, JD 1969
$Matrimonial Practice 42 2 years
$Fellow, American Academy of
Matrimonial Lawyers since 1976
$Member, Family Law Sections of
the New York State Bar Association
American Bar Association and the
New York City Bar Association
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
Steven W. Goldfeder, Esq.
Blank Rome LLP
405 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10174
NewYork, 1991
Connecticut,
1990
State University of
New York at Albany,
BA 1997
$Practicing exclusively matrimonial
law for the past twenty-one years
$Member, New York State Bar
Association, Family Law Section
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$Represented husbands and wives in
mediations and arbitrations in divorce
Tel. (212) 885-5488
Fax (917) 332-3808
Brooklyn Law School,
JD 1990
$Frequent lecturer on topics
involving matrimonial law, including
to American Institute of CPAs and
for the State Bar Association on
Basic Matrimonial Practice
proceedings
Patricia Ann Grant, Esq.
Grant + Appelbaum, P.C.
565 Fifth Avenue, 9th Fl.
New York, NY 10017
Tel. (212) 308-2200
Fax (212) 980-5192
New York, 1986
Fordham University,
BA
Touro Law Center, JD
$Matrimonial Practitioner, 25+ years
$Board of Directors, New York
Women=s Bar Association
$Immediate Past President, New
York Women=s Bar Association;
New York State Bar Association;
Association of the Bar
$Member, New York Association of
Collaborative Professionals
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$Mediation and collaborative law
training
Margery A. Greenberg, Esq.
Segal & Greenberg LLP
179 Franklin Street, 5th Fl.
New York, NY 10013
Tel. (212) 297-0503
Fax (212) 297-0572 [email protected]
New York, 1984
Hofstra University,
BA 1980
Hofstra University
School of Law, JD
1983
$Practiced exclusively in the area of
matrimonial/family law since 1994
$Practiced domestic relations law in
various legal services programs from
1984 through 1993
$Established a solo law practice,
Law Offices of Margery A.
Greenberg, in 1993 and was later
joined in this practice by the Hon.
Philip C. Segal in 2001, creating the
firm Segal & Greenberg LLP.
$Member, New York State Bar
Association
$Member, New York Women=s Bar
Association
$Member, Inter-Disciplinary Forum
of the Bar Association of the City of
New York
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$40 hours of Divorce
Mediation training
Barbara Ellen Handschu, Esq.
Special Counsel
Dobrish Michaels Gross LLP
757 3rd Avenue - 15
th Fl.
New York, NY 10017
Tel. (212) 532-4000
Fax (212) 532-3153
Cell (716) 308-5068
2
nd Dept 1967
US District
Courts:
Southern,
Eastern and
Western
Districts of NY
US Supreme
Court
New York University
BA, 1960 Phi Beta
Kappa
University of
Michigan School of
Law JD, 1966
$Private practice now exclusively in
NYC, previously in Buffalo. Special
Counsel to Dobrish Michaels Gross
$American Academy of Matrimonial
Lawyers (AAML): National
President (2004-2005); President NY
Chapter (1995-1997); Editor in Chief
of Journal and on Board of Journal
$New York State Bar Association:
Chair of Family Law Section (1990-
1992), previously VP, Secy= and
Treasurer of FLS NYSBA
$Member Family Court Advisory
and Rules Committee. (Appt=d
1994). Co-chair custody and
domestic violence committee
$ABA Advanced Family Law Trial
Advocacy Institute, previously co-
chair (22 years) until 2008
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$Founding Diplomate, American
College of Family Trial Lawyers
$Regular co-columnist for the
National Law Journal, Matrimonial
Law
$Founding Fellow, International
Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
(1987)
$Family Court Hearing Examiner
Erie County (Buffalo) (1981-1982)
$Observer, representing AAML, to
various drafting committees of
National Conference of
Commissioners on Uniform State
Laws (now ULC) on uniform acts
including UCCJEA, UIFSA and
currently Hague Protection of
Children Convention
$Appointed member of Governor=s Commission on Child Support
(1984)
$President Board of Neighborhood
Legal Services of Erie County
(1982-1984)
$Law Secretary to Hon. Hilda G.
Schwartz
$Frequent Lecturer with prepared
materials for OCA, state bar
associations in NY and elsewhere,
and professional organizations
$Martindale-Hubbell - AV rating
$Listed in Best Lawyers
$Listed in Who=s Who and Who=s Who in American Law
$Listed in Super Lawyers and
featured in Super Lawyers in
Western New York
Cindy Helfman, Esq.
Holtzman Helfman, LLP
350 Seventh Avenue, Ste. 604
New York, NY 10001
Tel. 646-289-3981
Fax 646-518-9258
New York
New Jersey
Florida
Pennsylvania
Brandeis University,
BA
Rutgers Law School,
JD
$Partner at Holtzman Helfman, LLP
since 2005 concentrating in
Matrimonial and Family Law,
including appellate practice
$Prior experience includes
Matrimonial, Family Court and
Criminal Law experience at 32B-J
Legal Services, a major union legal
services program, as well as two
years in Miami as an Assistant
Public Defender
$Member, New York State Bar
Association
$Member, New York Women=s Bar
Association, Matrimonial and Family
Law Committee
$New York County Lawyers=
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$2008 court-sponsored collaborative
law training
Association, Matrimonial Law
Section
Norman S. Heller, Esq.
Blank Rome LLP
405 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10174
Tel. (212) 212-885-5510
Fax (212) 885-5002
om
New York, 1978
Connecticut,
1991
Haverford College,
BA 1974
Boston University
School of Law, JD
1977
$Was an Assistant District Attorney
in the King=s County District
Attorney=s Office from 1977 to
1982. Thereafter, been in the private
practice of law.
$Since Sept. 1982, limited practice
to Matrimonial Law
$Practicing in NY and CT
$Member, New York State Bar
Association, Family Law Section
$Member, New York County
Lawyers Association, Family Law
Section (past co-chair of that
section)
$Member, NY Chapter of the
American Academy of Matrimonial
Lawyers
$Member, Connecticut Bar
Association, Family Law Section
$Member, Fairfield County Bar
Association, Family Law Committee
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$Acted as a mediator for divorce
cases in NY
William C. Herman, Esq.
Rosenthal Herman & Notaro,
P.C.
The Graybar Building
429 Lexington Avenue, Suite
2838
New York, NY 10170
NewYork, 1960
City College New
York, BA 1958
Columbia Law
School, LLB 1959
$52 Years: 15 years Matrimonial,
Criminal, General + 35 years
Matrimonial only
$Member, former Board Member,
Chair of various Committees,
NYCLA
$Member, American Bar
Association
$Member, New York State Bar
Association, Matrimonial Law
Section
$Member, NY Chapter American
Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
$AV rating Martindale Hubbell Law
Directory
$Recognized in Super Lawyers and
Best Lawyers in New York
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
Deborah B. Kahn
Butterman & Kahn, LLP
219 East 31st Street.
New York, NY 10016
Tel. (212) 308-7697
New York, 1985
State University of
New York at
Binghamton, BA 1979
Benjamin N. Cardozo
School of Law,
Yeshiva University,
JD 1983
$Member of Butterman &Kahn,
LLP, a litigation Aboutique@ with
practice concentration in
matrimonial law, real estate and
general civil litigation.
$Experience negotiator and litigator
with nearly three decades of
experience in the matrimonial field,
and has handled cases from
inception to final resolution
regardless of the issues involved
$Member, New York State Bar
Association, Family Law Section
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$Member, Women=s Bar Association
of the State of New York (NY
Chapter)
$Member, Brooklyn Bar Association
$Member, Hadassah Attorneys= Council, 2004 to date
$Co-chair, United States Supreme
Court Swearing In program, 2011 to
date
$Advisory Board Member, Family
Law Program, Benjamin N. Cardozo
School of Law, 2005 to date
$Adjunct Professor - Family Law,
Pace University Paralegal Program,
2011
$Butterman & Kahn, LLP, has
received the highest rating (AV)
from Martindale-Hubbell, the
nationally recognized rating
organization
$Lecturer and Co-author: New York
Domestic Relations text, The Study
Group, 1997
Maggie I. Kaminer, Esq.
Kaminer Kouzi & Associates
LLP
18 East 48th Street
Suite 1001
New York, NY 10017
Tel. (212) 921-5525
Fax (212) 646-269-7669
Maryland, 2001
Washington
D.C. 2004
New York, 2005
Pennsylvania State
University, BS
Biobehavioral health
American University
Washington College
of Law, JD
$Practiced exclusively in the field of
matrimonial law in Maryland,
Washington D.C. and New York
$Founded Kaminer Kouzi & Benun
LLP in November 2008 and since
that time, handled cases in Supreme
Court in New York, Queens, Kings,
Bronx, Westchester and Nassau
Counties and in the Family Court in
New York, Queens and Kings
Counties
$Prior to opening KKB LLP,
employed by Oakley & Eckstein
LLC (Maryland) 2001-2003
$Feldesman Tucker Leifer & Fidell
(Washington D.C.) 2003 - 2005
$Law Offices of Stephen I.
Silberfein (New York, NY) 2004 -
2008
$Member, New York County
Lawyers= Association
$Member, New York State Bar
Association
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$Introduction to
Collaborative Law
Arlene S. Kayatt, Esq.
Law Office of Arlene S. Kayatt
600 Third Avenue, 2nd Fl.
New York, NY 10016
212-586-8078
Tel. (917) 952-7413
New York,
Appellate
Division, First
Department
Long Island
University -
Education, Business,
BS 1967
Long Island
University -
$Attorney, Matrimonial and Family
Law (1987-Present) specializing in
all issues relating to domestic
relations, prenuptial agreements,
divorce, custody/parenting time,
division of property; orders of
protection
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$Mediation training from Association
of the Bar of the City of New York
Counseling, MS 1970
Touro Law School JD,
1986
$Published articles on divorce,
custody, court systems for
newspapers and blogs
$Co-Author of Ebook, How to Plan
and Draft Your Own Prenuptial
Agreement
$Arbitrator, Small Claims Court,
New York County (2005 to Present)
$Speaker on the pros and cons of
Prenuptial Agreements
$Member, Bar Association of the
City of New York
$Member, New York state Bar
Association-Family Law Section
$Adjunct Faculty, LIM
(Fashion/Business) College
Caroline Krauss, Esq.
Partner
Krauss Shaknes Tallentire &
Messeri LLP
The Empire State Building
350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 7620
New York, NY 10118
Tel. (212) 228-5552
Email [email protected]
New York
Connecticut
Southern
District New
York
Ithaca College, BS
1996
Brooklyn Law School,
JD 1991
$Started as a Litigator in
commercial and bankruptcy
litigation and matrimonial.
$Joined Tenzer Greenblatt (which
became Blank Rome) 18 years ago,
practiced matrimonial law since that
time
$Currently, Vice Chair of the
Matrimonial Practice Group, Billing
Committee Chair, Member of the
firm=s Partner Board, and the
ombudsperson for Alternate Work
Arrangement policy for the firm=s
NY and Princeton office. Founding
member of the firm=s Diversity
Committee and Women=s Forum
Steering Committee
$Member, New York State Bar
Association=s, Family Law Section
$Member, American Bar
Association=s Family Law Section
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$40 hours of mediation training
Charlotte C. Lee, Esq.
277 Broadway, Suite 407
New York, NY 10007-2035
Tel. (212) 732-3366
Fax (212) 374-9703
New York, 1978
New York University,
BA 1964
New York University,
MA 1965
New York Law
School, JD 1977
$In private practice of
Matrimonial/Family Law, New York
City=s five boros and nearby counties
1983 to present
$Developed and chaired NYCLA=s Basic Matrimonial CLE Course,
2000 to Present
$Member, Part 137 Arbitrators and
Mediators for Joint Committee on
Fee Disputes and Conciliation in
Matrimonial Matters, 2003 to present
$Appointed by Chief Judge, Judith
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$Arbitrator for Small Claims, NYC
$Arbitrator of fee disputes in civil
and matrimonial matters
S. Kaye to the statewide Matrimonial
Commission chaired by Hon. Sondra
Miller, 2004-2006
$NYCLA=s Matrimonial Law
Section, Co-Chair, 1997-2000
$New York County Lawyers=
Association, Director, 2000-2004
$NYCLA delegate to the NYSBA
House of Delegates, 2002-2006
$Lecturer at NYCLA=s Solo and
Small Firm Practice Conference,
Blueprint for Building Your Practice,
2000-2005, and NYCLA=s Bridge-the-Gap Program
$Participating attorney in the AARP
Legal Services Network, 1999 to
present
$Mentor for NYCLA=s Mentoring
Program, 2009 to present
$Appointed Attorney for Children
and Adults in Matrimonial Matters
$Appointed Neutral Evaluator in
Supreme and Surrogate=s Courts
$Certified under MHL Article 81
through 2012
$Certified Law Guardian for
Domestic Relations Matters
Lois J. Liberman, Esq.
Partner
Blank Rome, LLP
405 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10174
Tel. (212) 885-5389
1
st Dept. New
York, 1989
Wellesley College,
Political
Science/Spanish, BA
1985
University at Buffalo
Law School, JD 1988
$Advising clients in all aspects of
matrimonial and family law for over
24 years
$Co-Chair of the Judiciary
Committee of the New York
Women=s Bar Association
$Member, Matrimonial and Family
Law Committee of New York
Women=s Bar Association
$Member, Family Law Section of
the American Bar Association
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training on May 9, 2012
Steven J. Mandel, Esq.
The Mandel Law Firm
370 Lexington Avenue, Ste. 505
New York, NY 10017
Tel. (212) 697-7383
Fax (212) 681-6157
NY, 1980
Adelphi University,
1976
Benjamin N. Cardozo
School of Law, 1979
$Since 1980, approximately 90% of
practice has been in the field of
domestic relations and family law
$Current co-chair of the
Matrimonial Section of the New
York County Lawyer’s Association
$Super Lawyer
$Senior volunteer attorney for the
New York City and the Southern
New York Chapters of the Multiple
Sclerosis Society
$Member, Board of Directors and
Chief Legal Counsel for Ed
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
Randall=s Fans for the Cure for
Prostate Cancer Awareness
$Member, New York State Bar
Association, Family Law Section
$Member, New York State Trial
Lawyers Association
$Member, New York County Bar
Association, Family Law Section
$Member, Brooklyn Bar Association
$Member, New York City Bar
Association
$Earned a Martindale-Hubbell Peer
Review rating of AV Preeminent, as
well as a 10.0 rating from AVVO
$Participated in the trials of many
matrimonial actions, neglect
proceedings, support proceedings
and enforcement proceedings in the
Supreme Courts and Family Courts
of the State of New York
$”Super Lawyer”
Allan E. Mayefsky, Esq.
Aronson Mayefsky & Sloan, LLP
12 East 49th Street
32nd Fl.
New York, NY 10017
Tel. (212) 521-3503
Fax (212) 838-5505
New York, 1979
United States
District Court
for the Southern
and Eastern
Districts of New
York
United States
Court of
Appeals for the
2nd Circuit and
11th Circuits
United States
Supreme Court
Cornell University,
Summa Cum Laude in
Economics and
Government, BA 1975
Harvard Law School,
Cum Laude, JD 1978
$Practicing family law throughout
legal career
$Fellow, American Academy of
Matrimonial Lawyers since 1996
$Past President of the New York
Chapter of the Academy and
Member of its Board.
$Counsel, AAML Foundation
$Member, Executive Committee of
New York State Bar Association,
Family Law Section
$Member, Association of the Bar of
the City of New York
$Member, American Bar
Association
$Member, Former Chief Judge
Kaye=s Commission on the Reform
of Matrimonial Laws in New York
$Outgoing Counsel to the National
American Academy of Matrimonial
Lawyers
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
Barbara Milbauer, Esq.
Counselor At Law
351 Broadway, 4th Fl.
New York, NY 10013
Tel. (212) 615-6447
Fax (212) 615-6447
New York
Southern
District
U.S. Supreme
Court
Simmons College, BS
1958
New York Law
School, JD 1981
$1992-Present, Private Practice, 18B
Panel, New York County
$Instructor, Legal Writing and
Research, New York Law School,
2002-2003
$Assistant General Counsel, Special
Assistant District Attorney, N.Y.C.
Dept. Of Probation, 1984-1985
$Instructor, Legal Writing and Moot
Problems, Hofstra Law School,
1985-1989
$Associate, Simpson, Thacher &
Bartlett, 1989-1992
$Member, New York State Bar
Association
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$Member, New York Women=s Bar
Association
$Committee on Children and the
Law, Assoc. of the Bar, 1989-1992
$Committee on the Legal Needs of
the Poor, Assoc. of the Bar, 1992-
1995
$Committee on the Children and the
Courts, Assoc. of the Bar, 1999-2002
Dylan S. Mitchell, Esq.
Blank Rome LLP
405 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10174
Tel. (212) 885-5405
Fax (917) 332-3839
New York, 2
nd
Dept., 1996
SUNY Albany,
BA 1992
SUNY Buffalo,
JD 1995
$Partner at Blank Rome
$20 years of matrimonial practice
$Executive Committee member of
the Family Law Section of the
NYSBA
$Frequent lecturer for NYSBA on
matrimonial/family law topics
$Chair of the Matrimonial
Committee of the New York City
Bar Association
$Co-Chair of the legislative
Committee
$Fellow in the American Academy
of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML)
$Frequent past lecturer for NYSBA
on matrimonial/family law topics
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
Michael Mosberg, Esq.
Aronson Mayefsky & Sloan, LLP
485 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Tel. (212) 521-3514
New York
University of
Michigan, AB
Brooklyn Law School,
JD
$Partner with Aronson Mayefsky &
Sloan, LLP; represent clients in all
aspects of family law
$Prior to joining the firm, served as
a law clerk to the Honorable
Virginia M. Morgan of the United
States District Court for the Eastern
District of Michigan
$Chair, Matrimonial Law
Committee for the Association of the
Bar of the City of New York (2011-
2014)
$Member, Family Law Section of
the American Bar Association (Co-
chair, Sponsorship and Fund-raising
Committee
$Member, Council, CLE and Trial
Practice and Techniques Committees
(Chairs 2009-2012)
$Fellow, American Academy of
Matrimonial Lawyers (Member,
Technology Committee)
$Member, Family Law Section of
the New York State Bar Association
(Member, Executive and
Membership Committees)
$Frequently lecture and write on
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
family law topics
$One of the Ten Leaders in
Matrimonial and Divorce Law in
New York City under the age of 45
and a Rising Star by Super Lawyers
Louis I. Newman, Esq.
Newman & Denney P.C.
570 Lexington Avenue, Suite,
1600
New York, NY 10022
Tel. (212) 486-3200
New York
U.S. Supreme
Court, 2nd Circuit
U.S.D.C. -
SDNY, EDNY,
and
WDNY
Queens College of
City of New York, BS
New York Law
School, JD
$Private practice since 1968
specializing in negotiation and
litigation of pre and post judgment
matrimonial and family related
matters, practicing before trial and
appellate courts
$Member, New York County
Lawyers Association
$Member, Matrimonial Law
Committee
$Member, New York State Bar
Association, Family Law Section
$Matrimonial Instructor for Pro
Bono attorneys at inMotion
Woman=s Shelter
$Panelist in New York City Bar
matrimonial continuing legal
education program
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$Participant in Supreme Court, New
York County Matrimonial ADR pilot
program
David H. Pikus, Esq.
Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C.
17 State Street
New York, NY 10004
Tel. (212) 425-9300
Fax (212) 425-9337
New York, 1981
New Jersey,
1982
Southern,
Eastern and
Western
Districts of New
York
District of New
Jersey
2nd and 3
rd
Circuit Court of
Appeals
Princeton University,
Cum Laude, A.B.
University of Virginia
School of Law, JD
$Special Master, Supreme Court,
New York County/Served in 3
Matrimonial Parts and the
Commercial Division
$Matrimonial Neutral Evaluator
Panel
$Extensive experience in
matrimonial cases involving
enhanced earnings and commercial
assets
$State Dept. Hague Case Referral
Panel
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$NY State Bar Association mediation
training
$Experienced Matrimonial Mediator
as special master and in private
practice.
Bernard G. Post, Esq.
Bernard G. Post LLP
950 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Tel. (212) 752-1900
Fax (212)752-1609
New York, 1968
USDC SD NY
US Ct Appeals
2nd Circuit
New York University
BA, 1964
Brooklyn Law School JD, 1967
$Member, American Academy of
Matrimonial Lawyers (40 years)
$NYCLA Matrimonial Section (prior
membership) $City Bar Matrimonial Section tow three year terms
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$Mediation Training, 40 hours
$court-sponsored Collaborative Law
training
Sheila G. Riesel, Esq.
Partner
Blank Rome LLP
405 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10174
Tel. (212) 885-5535
Fax (212) 885-5002
New York
Supreme Court
of the United
States
U.S. Court of
Appeals for the
Second Circuit
U.S. District
Court-Eastern
and Southern
District of New
York
Vassar College, BA
1966
Fordham University
School of Law, JD
1969
$Practice all aspects of Matrimonial
law.
$Extensive appellate and trial
experience, having argued three
times in the U.S. Supreme Court and
more than 60 times in both federal
and state appellate courts.
$Engaged in criminal defense and
professional disciplinary law since
leaving the Legal Aid Society in
1977.
$Represent clients with respect to:
pre-and post nuptial agreements,
separation agreements, actions for
divorce, custody, and equitable
distribution and complex valuation
and custody disputes
$Ranked by Worth magazine as one
of the U.S=s top 100 attorneys
attending to affluent families
$Received the highest possible
rating from Martindale-Hubbell
$Member, 2005 Matrimonial
Commissions
$President, Alumni class of 1966
Vassar College
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
Karen B. Rosenthal, Esq.
Bender Rosenthal & Richter
451 Park Avenue South - 8th Fl.
New York, NY 10016
Tel. (212) 725-7111
Fax (212) 725-3737
New York, 1989
George Washington
University, 1982
Benjamin Cardozo
Law School, JD 1987
$Since 1989, practiced in the area of
matrimonial law
$Certified as an Attorney for the
Child for the First Judicial
Department and have been appointed
by the New York County Judges as
well as chosen by peers to represent
children on numerous matters over
the year
$Lectured extensively on the issue
of the GET law and related
matrimonial laws
$Member, New York State Bar
Association
$Member, New York City Bar
Association
$Member, Women=s Bar Association
$Member, Interdisciplinary Forum
on Mental Health and Family Law
$President-Elect of the Association
of Family and Conciliation Courts
(AFCC) New York Chapter
$Included in the 2012 and 2012
editions of the Best Lawyers in
$6.0 hours of court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$Basic Divorce Mediation Skills
Training Program from the
Association of the Bar of the City of
New York
$Handle mediation cases as part of
my practice
America as well as New York
Magazine=s New York Area Top
Lawyers
Lawrence N. Rothbart, Esq.
122 W. 27th Street, 11
th FL New
York, NY 10001
Tel. (212) 812-0694
Fax (212) 227-4533
www.Rothbartlaw.com
New York, 1982
US Supreme
Court, 2004
US District
Courts NY-
Eastern and
Southern
Districts, 1982
Brandeis University
Magna Cum Laude,
BA
New York University
School of Law, JD
$30+ years in Matrimonial Practice
(16 years in the Matrimonial Part of
the New York State Court System
(Law Secretary and Special Referee)
and 14+years in private practice
including Collaborative Practice and
Mediation) as well as an additional 5
2 years of General Practice (3 2 in
Appellate Division 2nd Department of
the New York State Court System
and 2 years in the Office of the New
York State Attorney General).
$Member, New York Association
of Collaborative Professionals
$Member, New York State Bar
Association, Family Law Section
and ADR Section
$Member, Brooklyn Bar
Association, Family Law Section
and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Committee (former chair)
$Member, Sanctuary for Families,
Legal Advisory Committee
$Member, New York City
Interdisciplinary Forum
$Delegate, XII International
Congress on Family Law, Havana
Cuba, Sept. 2002
$Court sponsored neutral evaluation
training
$Center for Mediation in Law,
Intensive Mediation Training
$Center for Mediation in Law,
Introduction to Collaborative Law
$Center for Mediation in Law,
Interdisciplinary Collaborative
Divorce
$Court-sponsored Domestic Violence
Training for Collaborative Divorce
Professionals
$International Academy of
Collaborative Professionals, Annual
Educational Forums
$Conducted settlement conferences in
the NYS Supreme Court Matrimonial
Part, 16 years
$Arbitrator in New York State Small
Claims Court, 16 years
$Mediator in Matrimonial matters,
10+ years
$Collaborative Lawyer, 10+
years
Marguerite Lily Royer, Esq., P.C.
60 East 42nd Street, Suite 4000
New York, NY 10165
97 Round A Bend Road
Tarrytown, NY 10591
Tel. (212) 485-9868
Fax (212) 485-9869
New York, 1981
Suny Albany, magna
cum laude,
BA 1977
Pace University
School of Law,
summa cum laude, JD
1977
$37 years experience in the practice
of family law and divorce
$Handles all matters relating to
family relationships, including
opposite-sex and same sex
partnerships and marriages; divorce,
international divorce annulment and
separation, etc.
$Former partner and co-chair of
Moses Singer=s Matrimonial and
Family Law practice group and head
of the firm=s Matrimonial Litigation
division
$Represents same-sex and opposite-
sex couples in complex custody
disputes
$Member, American Bar
Association, Family Law Section
$Member, New York State Bar
Association, Family Law Section
$Public Service and Education
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$court-sponsored mediation training
with trainers Jack Himmelstein and
Katherine Miller
Committee, and Alternative Dispute
Resolution Committee
$Member, International Academy of
Collaborative Professionals
$Member, New York Association of
Collaborative Professionals
$Member, Westchester County and
Westchester Women=s Bar
Association
$Board of Director for the New
York Association of Collaborative
Professionals
$Fellow, American Academy of
Matrimonial Lawyers
Ronnie Schindel, Esq.
Partner
Pryor Cashman LLP
7 Times Square
New York, NY 10036
Tel. (212) 326-0890
New York, 1994
Cornell University;
SUNY at Stony
Brook, BA 1989
Brooklyn Law School,
JD 1993
$Family Law Practitioner since 1994
$Fellow, American Academy of
Matrimonial Lawyers and sits on
their Board of Managers
$Member, New York State Bar
Association, Executive Committee
for the Family Law Section and
previously acted as one of their
representatives to the State Bar
House of Delegates
$Member, Association of the Bar of
the City of New York, previously sat
on the Matrimonial Law Committee
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
Frederic P. Schneider, Esq.
Ballon Stoll Bader & Nadler,
P.C.
729 Seventh Avenue - 17th Fl.
New York, NY 10019
Tel. (212) 575-7900
Fax (212) 764-5060
New York, 1977
Columbia College,
1973
NYU Law School,
1976
$Kings County D.A. 1978-1981
$Managing Partner Matrimonial &
Family Law Firms 1981-2011
$December 2012: Partner: Ballon
Stoll Bader & Nadler, Head of
Matrimonial & Family Law Dept.
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
Gretchen Beall Schumann, Esq.
Partner
Cohen Rabin Stine Schumann
LLP
11 Times Square, 10th Fl.
W. 41st Street & 8
th Avenue
New York, NY 10036
Tel. (212) 512-0816
Genl. Tel. (212) 512-0825
Dir e-fax (212) 202-3775
Genl e-fax (212) 202-6100
New Jersey,
2001
New York, 2002
Columbia University,
Columbia College,
BA 1998
Cornell Law School,
JD 2001
$More than eleven years of
experience litigating and negotiating
family law matters
$Frequent CLE lecturer for the New
York State Bar Association on both
procedural and substantive aspects of
the Uniform Interstate Family
Support Act, and for the E. David
Woycik Intensive Trial Advocacy
Program at Hofstra Law School
$Member, New York State Bar
Association
$Member, New Jersey State Bar
Association
$President, New York Women=s Bar
Association (2010-2011)
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$15.0 hours of training in
collaborative law and alternative
dispute resolution
$Secretary, New York County
Lawyers Association (2004-2007)
$Secretary, New York City Bar,
Committee on Children and the Law
(2005-2008)
Philip C. Segal, Esq.
Segal & Greenberg LLP
179 Franklin Street
New York, NY 10013
Tel. (212) 297-0503
Fax (212) 297-0572
US Supreme
Court, 1978
US Court of
Appeals, 2nd
Circuit, 1975
US Court of
Appeals, 5th
Circuit, 2003
US District
Court, Eastern
District of New
York, 1979
US District
Court, Southern
District of New
York, 1974
US District
Court, Western
District of
Texas, 2002
US Tax Court,
1978
New York, 1974
University of Miami,
BA 1969
New York Law
School, JD 1973
$Partner, Segal & Greenberg LLP,
Private law practice specializing in
matrimonial law, domestic relations,
civil litigation and appellate practice,
2001 - present
$Judicial Hearing Officer, New
York State Unified Court System,
2001 - 2009
$Judge, New York State Family
Court, 1991 - 2001
$Director, Building Service 32BJ
Legal Services Fund, 1989-1991 &
Director of Litigation, 1986 - 1989
$Adjunct Professor of Law, New
York Law School, January 2003 -
Present
$Lecturer in trial practice, evidence,
domestic relations, and international
child abduction
$U.S. Department of State Hague
Child Abduction Convention
Attorney Network Mentor
$Member, New York County
Lawyers= Association, Committee on
Family Court and Child Welfare
$Member, New York State Bar
Association
$Member, Women=s Bar Association
of the State of New York
$Member, Brooklyn Bar Association
$Member, Association of the Bar of
the City of New York
Board Member, Center for Family
Representation
$InMotion Commitment to Justice
Award
$Conducts frequent CLE trainings
$Numerous publications including
in New York Law Journal and
NYSBA Family Law Review
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
Stephen I. Silberfein, Esq.
Law Offices of Stephen I.
Silberfein, P.C.
1212 Avenue of the Americas,
18th Fl.
New York, NY 10036
Tel. (212) 755-3200
Fax (212) 944-6600
New York, 1971
USDC New
Jersey, 1974
New Jersey,
1975
University of
Pennsylvania -
Psychology and
Philosophy, BA 1967
New York University
School of Law, JD
1970
$Private practice, almost exclusively
in the Matrimonial area since 1981.
$Past or present member of Family,
Matrimonial Law and Ethics meeting
and programs, including for New
York County Lawyers Association
and the Association of the Bar of the
City of New York
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$court-sponsored training and
participant as mediator and arbitrator
from inception of fee dispute
resolution program to date
$court-sponsored training and
participant as both lecturer and
www.newyorkdivorce.com
$Moderator, Lecturer and panel
member of Family, Matrimonial Law
and Ethics meetings and programs,
including for New York County
Lawyers Association and the
Association of the Bar of the City of
New York
$Volunteered and participated in a
multitude of pro bono programs,
including SHIELD, PEACE, Office
of the Self-represented and others.
ABreak out@ session leader PEACE
program
$court-sponsored training and
participant as evaluator in initial pilot
Neutral Evaluation program
Jaqueline W. Silbermann, Esq.
Of Counsel
Dobrish Michaels Gross LLP
757 Third Avenue, 18th FL
New York, NY 10017
Tel (212) 532-4000
New York, First
Dep=t, 1973
Bryn Mawr College,
BA 1959
Fordham Law School,
JD 1972
$Matrimonial Justice for 21 years
$Matrimonial Practice since 2009
$President, New York Women=s Bar
Association
$Executive Committee of Dispute
$Resolution Section of State Bar
$Chair, Committee on Judicial
Discipline of State Bar
$Vice-President of Fordham Law
Alumni Association
$Member, Family Law Section of
State Bar and New York County
Lawyers
$Member, Council on Judicial
Administration of City Bar
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$30+ hours Mediation training on
panels of CPR and AAA
$Collaborative Law Training
Jane R. Slavin, Esq.
59 East 54th Street, Suite 52
New York, NY 10022
Tel. (917) 494-0451
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
District of
Columbia
SUNY at
Binghamton (Harpur
College) BA
Boston University -
School of Arts and
SciencesBhistory,
MA
Rutgers, JD
$22 years experience in private
practice specializing in
matrimonial and family law. All
phases of litigation, including
appeals.
$Previously, court attorney for
Supreme and Civil Court judges
sitting in criminal and civil parts,
primarily in New York County
$Member, New York County
Lawyers Association and NYCLA
Matrimonial Committee
$Member, New York State Bar
Association, Family Law Section
$Participant in NYWBA
pro bono matrimonial
representation
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$Mediation Training with Center
for Mediation Training, Ken
Neumann, Ph.D., March 2012
Robert G. Smith, PLLC
950 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10022
New York,
1974
Brooklyn College,
BA 1970
$40 years of Matrimonial trial and
appellate experience
$Qualified attorney for Children,
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$court-sponsored Collaborative Law
Tel. (212) 499-0940
Rutgers University
Law School, JD 1973 First Department
$AV Martindale Hubbell rating,
20 years
$Member, New York State Bar
Association
$Member, New York County
Lawyers= Association
$Member, New York City Bar
Association
$Frequent moot court judge at the
New York City Bar and Yale
University
Training 2007
Vivien I. Stark. Esq.
Vivien I. Stark, P.C.
370 Lexington Avenue, Ste.
901
New York, NY 10017
Tel. (212) 349-1600
Fax (212) 349-1601
New York,
1986
New Jersey,
1986
SUNY Albany, BA
1986
St. John=s School of
Law, JD 1985
$25 years of experience as a
matrimonial and family law
attorney
$Mentor for the New York County
Lawyer=s Association Legal
Clinic-2010 to present date.
$Lecturer: Continuing Legal
Education (CLE) for Legal Clinic
of the New York County Lawyers= Association in the areas of
Matrimonial and Family law
including: Divorce, Separation,
Annulment, Child Support, Child
Custody Enforcement and
Equitable Distribution. September
2011 and September 2012
$Member of the New York State
Bar Association
$Member of the New York
County Lawyers= Association
$Member of the American Bar
Association
$6.0 hours of court-sponsored
neutral evaluation training
Chaim Steinberger, Esq.
Chaim Steinberger, P.C.
150 East 58th Street
#2701
New York, NY 10155
Tel. (212) 964-6100
Fax (212) 500-7559
Website:
www.theNewYorkDivorceLaw
yers.com
Fluent in Yiddish, some
knowledge of Hebrew
New York
Southern and
Eastern District
of New York
US Sup.Ct.
Adelphi University,
BA 1983
Brooklyn Law
School, JD 1994
(cum laude)
$ 2000-Present, principal, Chaim
Steinberger, P.C. $Practicing exclusively ADR (in all areas, since 1995) and matrimonial and family law (ADR & litigation) since 2000;
$ 1999-2000, of Counsel,
Rosenthal & Herman, P.C.;
$ 1996-1998, associate, Morgan,
Lewis & Bockius LLP;
$ 1995-1996, law clerk, Honorable
Edward R. Korman, U.S.D.J.,
E.D.N.Y.;
$ 1994-1995, associate, Schulte,
Roth & Zabel;
$ 2009-2011, chair, American Bar
Association Family Law Section
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Committee (vice-chair 2008-
2009);
$ 2008-2010, co-chair, New York
State Bar Association Dispute
Resolution Section Collaborative
Law Committee;
$ 2010-2013, vice-chair, ABA
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$1992 Safe Horizon Mediation
Training Program (>40 hours, Lila
Love and other instructors);
$2006, NYS Judicial Institute
Advanced Mediation Training
$2008, Center for Mediation in Law
Collaborative Law Training (~ 24
hours)
$2008, Supreme Court Commercial
Division Advanced Mediation
Training
FLS Ethics, Professionalism &
Grievance Committee (exec.
member 2008-2010);
$ Mediator/Aribtrator: SDNY
Mediation Panel; NYS Supreme
Court Commercial Division
Mediation Panel (NY & Kings
counties); NYS Supreme Court
Matrimonial Mediation Project
(Westchester & Queens counties);
Part-137 Attorney-Client Fee
Dispute Program (Kings county);
NYC Civil Court, Small Claims
Part
$ Member, NYSBA Task Force on
Family Courts;
$ Member, American Bar
Association, NYS Bar Association,
New York City Bar Association,
New York County Lawyers
Association, Brooklyn Bar
Association;
$1997 recipient, NYC Bar
Association Certificate of Pro
Bono Service
$Author, Mediation Techniques
Every Litigator Can Use; New
York County Lawyer; 10-14
Diane Steiner, Esq.
GreenspoonMarder
590 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Tel. (212) 524-5000
New York,
1990
Adelphi College
Cardozo Law School
$Practiced matrimonial law
exclusively since 1990
$Fellow, AAML and IAML
(Executive Committee)
$Family Law Committee at
Cardozo
$Member, New York State Bar
Association
$Member, American Bar
Association
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$Completed a course in
mediation in law school
Daniel H. Stock, Esq.
Daniel H. Stock, PLLC
Law Offices
New York Office
60 East 42nd Street, Suite 4600
New York, NY 10165
Tel. (212) 324-1702 [email protected]
m
New York,
1985
Southern and
Eastern District
of New York,
1985
Queens College of
the City University
of New York, BA
1974
Pace University
School of Law, JD
1981
$27 years of legal experience, 11
in family law and matrimonial
$Former assistant county
Attorney, Special Prosecutor and
Law Guardian
$Authorized Collaborative
Divorce practitioner
$Member, New York State Bar
Association
$Member, Dutchess County Bar
Association
$Member, New York City Bar
Association
$Member, New York City Bar
Association Matrimonial Law
Committee
$Member, Hudson Valley
Collaborative Divorce & Dispute
Resolution Association
$Guest speaker on radio programs
on divorce, WKNY (Kingston,
NY) WHVW (Poughkeepsie, NY),
$6.0 hours of court-sponsored
neutral evaluation training
$Collaborative Law
training, Bear Mountain, NY
WNRQ (Poughkeepsie, NY);
conducted workshops and
speaking engagements on divorce
and Collaborative Divorce in
Poughkeepsie, NY
Brett S. Ward, Esq.
Partner
Blank Rome LLP
The Chrysler Building
405 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10174
Tel. (212) 885-5394
Fax (917) 332-3809
New York,
2001
Massachusetts,
2001
Connecticut,
2008
United States
Supreme Court,
2009
Eastern District
New York,
2001
Southern
District New
York, 2001
Brandeis University,
BA 1997
Benjamin N.
Cardozo School of
Law, J.D. 2000
$Blank Rome Matrimonial
Department Partner since 2011 and
Associate from 2004-2011
$Lansner & Kubitschek as an
Associate from 2000 until 2004
$Co-chair Young Lawyers= Section at NYCLA
$Family Court Committee at
NYCLA
$Member, NYSBA
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$Divorce Mediation Class at
Cardozo School of Law
Elliot Wiener, Esq.
Phillips Nizer LLP
666 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10606
Tel. (212) 841-0726
Fax (212) 262-5152
New York,
1977
Boston University,
BA 1973
Buffalo Law School,
JD 1976
$Practicing family law since 1977
with Juvenile Rights Division of
Legal Aid Society then in private
practice since 1981
$Former co-chair, NY County
Lawyers Association, Matrimonial
Law Section
$Former co-chair and current
member of executive committee,
Interdisciplinary Forum on Mental
Health and Family Law
$Member, Executive Committee
NYS Bar Association, Family Law
Section
Member, American Academy of
Matrimonial Lawyers
$6.0 hours court-sponsored neutral
evaluation training
$Mediation Training (Ackerman
Institute for the Family)
$Collaborative Law (New York
Collaborative Law Group)
May 15, 2020