Mediator Resume

Thirty years experience in private practice; taught classes in mediation ethics; power imbalances; intimate partner violence; mentored numerous beginning mediators in apprenticeship program; former member of the Board of the Family & Divorce Mediation Council of Greater New York.

Resolutions Mediation and Collaborative Divorce Services, LLC - Parent Coordinator, Collaborative Attorney, Mediator

Attorney, Mediator

Parent Coordinator (2006-Present)/Collaborative Attorney (2001-Present)/Mediator (1995-Present), ReSolutions Mediation & Collaborative Divorce Services, LLC, 1995-Present; Panel Mediator, New York Supreme Court First Department Matrimonial Pilot Program, 2015-Present; Panel Mediator, Brooklyn Bar Association – Attorney Fee Dispute Mediation, 2002-Present; Arbitrator, State Department of Insurance for United Community Insurance Company, 1996-2000; Volunteer Mediator, Brooklyn Mediation Center, 1995-1998; Associate, Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, 1992-1994; Summer Associate/Associate, Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn, 1989, 1990-1992; Law clerk, Massachusetts Office For Children, Summer 1998; Law clerk, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, 1984-1987.

Thirty years working in private practice; worked with thousands of divorcing and divorcing couples. Break-up expert. MEDIATION AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: • Parenting Coordination Training – October 2007 – Elayne Greenberg, Marvin Aronson, Ray Havlicek – 40 hours • FDMCGNY – ongoing continuing education programs – various topics and trainers – 3 hour seminars presented 9 times per year – attended various seminars since 1995 • NYS Council on Divorce Mediation Conferences, Dec 2009 (8 hours), May 2008 (12 hours), Dec 2007 (8 hours), May 2006 (16 hours), May, 2003 (16 hours) Dec 2002 (8 hours), Dec 2001 (8 hours) – various trainers • Center for Mediation in Law (16 hours) - Feb 2003 – Jack Himmelstein • New York Association of Collaborative Professionals – (Nov. 2001) 30 hours, collaborative law training • Brooklyn Mediation Center - Child Custody/Visitation Pilot Project Training (16 hours) - Nov. 1996 – Sally Ganong Pope • Brooklyn Mediation Center - Mediator Apprenticeship & Certification - 1994 – 95 – overseen by Jim Goulding • Association of the Bar of the City of NY – Mediation Skills Training May-July 1994 (32 hours) – Robert Kirkman Collins, Sally Ganong Pope, Lori Goldstein • Divorce Mediation – Association of the Bar of the City of NY (10 hours) - July 1994 - Robert Kirkman Collins • Academy for Dispute Resolution - Mediation Skills for Lawyers (30 hours) - April 1994 – Dina Jansenson, Susan Coleman

Specializing in divorce, family, parenting conflicts, sibling conflicts; estate planning mediation; marital mediation. Member of International Association Collaborative Professionals. Assisted couples in marriages to negotiate, resolve and settle issues involving, (among others): • division of houses, pensions, other marital property; • planning for children’s residence, living expenses, college education, involvement with parents; • parenting conflicts and how they will impact children; • fair division of tax consequences; • fair division of small businesses created during marriage.

Facilitative; discuss options and weigh pros & cons; consider underlying needs and interests; trained in Understanding Model of mediation.

Can work in person or over Zoom video.

Boston University School of Law (JD, cum laude – 1990); NYU Gallatin School (BA).

Admitted to the Bar: New York (1991), Pennsylvania (1993); U.S. District Court: Western District of Pennsylvania (1993); U.S. Court of Appeals: Fifth Circuit (1993).

New York Association of Collaborative Professionals - founding member 2001; Member, former Board member, FDMC, 1999-2006; Editor-In-Chief of Council News, FDMC, 1999-2004; Chair of Ethics Committee; Chair of Domestic Violence Task Force 2003-present; Accredited Mediator, New York State Council on Divorce Mediation; Advanced Practitioner, Association for Conflict Resolution; Association of Professional Family Mediators; Certified Parent Coordinator, NY Association of Parent Coordinators; Senior Mediator, MIRR Mediate.com.

Hourly Rate: $535.00 Daily Rate: Not provided Study Rate: $535.00/hr Cancellation: $535.00/Day Cancellation Period: 1 Days Comment:

English

United States of America

Brooklyn, New York