Mediator Resume

Attorney-mediator and collaborative law professional with extensive experience resolving complex family, financial, parenting, and intercultural disputes. Provides trauma-informed, child-centered, and settlement-driven mediation with strong grounding in legal analysis, conflict-resolution theory, and cultural responsiveness. Regularly handles high-conflict matters, hybrid attorney-supported processes, and cases involving sophisticated financial structures. Experienced educator and trainer in mediation, communication, and interdisciplinary family-systems work.

Roytberg Traum Law & Mediation, P.C. - Partner

Mediator; Collaborative Law Attorney; Parenting Coordinator; Trainer, Author

Partner, Roytberg Traum Law & Mediation, P.C., 2016–Present; Founder & Lead Trainer, PeaceChord LLC, 2025–Present; Mediation Trainer, New York State Council on Divorce Mediation, 2022-Present; New York Legal Assistance Group Domestic Violence Clinical Center Practitioner, 2015; Mediator & ADR Practitioner, Private Practice, 2013–Present; Guest Instructor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 2016-Present.

Extensive professional experience at the intersection of family law, mediation, interdisciplinary conflict resolution, and professional education. Has worked for more than a decade with families, professionals, and organizations navigating complex transitions involving legal, financial, relational, and cultural dimensions, with a consistent focus on process integrity, informed consent, and durable outcomes. Background includes sustained work in family and matrimonial mediation; parenting coordination and family systems–informed dispute resolution; settlement consulting; and interdisciplinary collaboration with attorneys, financial professionals, and mental-health practitioners. Experience spans high-conflict and high-complexity matters, including those involving international and cross-border dynamics, culturally and religiously diverse families, and multi-party decision-making. Brings significant experience in professional training, curriculum design, and mentorship, including the development and delivery of mediation-skills programs, advanced conflict-resolution workshops, cross-cultural communication modules, and interdisciplinary education for mediators, attorneys, and collaborative professionals. Has served in leadership and governance roles within professional and nonprofit organizations, supporting ethical practice, community dialogue, and capacity-building in the conflict-resolution field. Work is grounded in a facilitative, interest-based approach that emphasizes clarity, neutrality, cultural fluency, and respect for party self-determination, while remaining attentive to legal context and real-world implementation.Extensive professional experience at the intersection of family law, mediation, interdisciplinary conflict resolution, and professional education. Has worked for more than a decade with families, professionals, and organizations navigating complex transitions involving legal, financial, relational, and cultural dimensions, with a consistent focus on process integrity, informed consent, and durable outcomes. Background includes sustained work in family and matrimonial mediation; parenting coordination and family systems–informed dispute resolution; settlement consulting; and interdisciplinary collaboration with attorneys, financial professionals, and mental-health practitioners. Experience spans high-conflict and high-complexity matters, including those involving international and cross-border dynamics, culturally and religiously diverse families, and multi-party decision-making. Brings significant experience in professional training, curriculum design, and mentorship, including the development and delivery of mediation-skills programs, advanced conflict-resolution workshops, cross-cultural communication modules, and interdisciplinary education for mediators, attorneys, and collaborative professionals. Has served in leadership and governance roles within professional and nonprofit organizations, supporting ethical practice, community dialogue, and capacity-building in the conflict-resolution field. Work is grounded in a facilitative, interest-based approach that emphasizes clarity, neutrality, cultural fluency, and respect for party self-determination, while remaining attentive to legal context and real-world implementation.

Mediates high-net-worth, international, and cross-cultural family matters at the intersection of law, finance, and family systems. Brings extensive experience in facilitative family and matrimonial mediation, negotiation, settlement consulting, and interdisciplinary conflict resolution across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, with a practice that regularly addresses sophisticated, multi-jurisdictional family matters nationally and internationally. Background includes mediation of prenuptial and postnuptial agreements; domestic partnership and cohabitation matters; divorce and separation involving complex compensation structures, business valuations, real-estate portfolios, and international assets; parenting matters involving developmental considerations, neurodiversity, education planning, and culturally and religiously diverse family structures; and trust, estate, probate, and elder-care transitions. Fluent in Russian, with extensive experience supporting immigrant, multilingual, and cross-cultural families, including matters shaped by differing cultural expectations and international or transnational family dynamics. Also experienced in professional training and curriculum development, including the design and delivery of mediation-skills programs, advanced conflict-resolution workshops, cross-cultural communication modules, and mentorship of emerging mediators and collaborative-law professionals. Creates a calm, structured mediation process that supports clarity, dignity, and informed decision-making in high-stakes family transitions.

Prenuptial, postnuptial, domestic-partnership, and cohabitation agreements Divorce (high-conflict and amicable), separation, and marital dissolution — both domestic and international Parenting coordination: custody, parenting plans, special needs, cultural/language considerations, co-parenting communication, relocation, holiday/travel scheduling Spousal and child support, maintenance, financial settlement negotiations involving complex income streams, assets, properties, investments Cross-cultural, multilingual, immigrant-family, and international-divorce mediations LGBTQ+ family mediation, non-traditional family and cohabitation agreements

Adopts a facilitative, client-centered, culturally responsive mediation style grounded in legal realism, interdisciplinary insight, and case-specific flexibility. Prioritizes clarity, informed decision-making, and respectful communication; balances facilitative and evaluative approaches when parties request legal or financial context. Emphasizes cross-cultural competency, sensitivity to immigrant and multilingual clients, and flexibility to integrate legal coaching, collaborative-law representation, or parenting coordination as needed. Also frequently leads training and mentorship of other mediators, supporting ongoing professional development and peer review.

Conducts remote mediations and trainings via video conferencing (e.g., Zoom), manages online document sharing, uses digital case-management and scheduling tools, facilitates online intake and mediation sessions, and supports virtual workshops and continuing education.

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (J.D., Concentration in Family & Matrimonial Law, awarded the Jacob Burns Medal for Scholastic Achievement); New York University (B.A). Completed Part-146 approved divorce mediation training programs, extensive clinical training, CA training, and collaborations with national mediation trainers.

Admitted to the Bar: New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

Immediate Past President, New York State Council on Divorce Mediation (NYSCDM); Member, Long Island Collaborative Divorce Professionals; Member, International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP); Member, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC).

Hearing Harmony in Hard Times in FAMILY CONFLICT IN A PANDEMIC: STORIES OF STRUGGLE AND HOPE (2021) Mediation as the Default Approach for Family Dispute Resolution (coauthored with Forrest S. Mosten) FAMILY ADVOCATE (ABA 2023) Awakening La Sonnambula: The Matrimonial and Family Mediation Renaissance in New York State, NY Dispute Resolution Lawyer (NYSBA 2023) BOOKS: FAMILY LAWYER AS PEACEMAKER (with Forrest S. Mosten, ABA, 2025) EFFECTIVELY REPRESENTING CLIENTS IN FAMILY MEDIATION (with Forrest S. Mosten and Hon. Elizabeth Potter Scully, ABA, 2023)

Hourly Rate: $500.00 Daily Rate: Not provided Study Rate: $500.00/hr Cancellation: $200.00/hr Cancellation Period: 3 Days Comment:

English; Russian

United States of America

Forest Hills, New York