Barry Berkman is an attorney/mediator in private practice. He is a partner with Berkman, Bottger & Rodd in New York City, where he specializes in matrimonial and family law.

Mr. Berkman has been a practicing mediator since 1982. He is also an adjunct professor of family law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and a mediation instructor for the Continuing Education Program on Mediation Skills at the Center for Mediation in Law.

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Mr. Berkman offers mediation services for matrimonial clients.  Divorce mediation is a voluntary process where divorcing couples work together with a trained mediator to negotiate and resolve their differences in a non-adversarial forum.

For many divorcing couples, mediation has become a viable alternative to the financial and emotional costs of traditional adversarial legal representation. Sensibly used, mediation provides the opportunity to find fair and realistic solutions to the economic and practical issues facing the family and also helps to heal the psychological rift.

Mediation is based on the premise that the people getting divorced are in the best position to make decisions that will have long-term personal and financial consequences on their lives.

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Mr. Berkman received his B.A. from Harvard College in 1962 and his LL.B. from Stanford University Law School in 1965. He was admitted to practice in New York State in 1966 and admitted to the United States Southern and Eastern District Courts in 1968.

Mr. Berkman is a member of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Committee on Matrimonial Law), the American Bar Association (Family Law Section, member of Task Force on Standards of Practice of Divorce Mediation), and The New York State Council on Divorce Mediation. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Family and Divorce Mediation Council of Greater New York.

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Berkman Bottger & Rodd
521 Fifth Avenue
31st Floor
New York, New York 10175
212-867-9123

barryberkman@berkmanmediation.com
www.berkmanmediation.com

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