Who is Barry Berkman?

Barry Berkman is an attorney/mediator in private practice.  He is a partner with Berkman Bottger & Rodd, LLP in New York City, where he specializes in matrimonial and family law.  He has been a practicing mediator since 1982.  He has taught family law as an adjunct professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and is currently a mediation instructor for the Continuing Education Program on Mediation Skills at the Center for Mediation in Law.

Barry received his B.A. from Harvard College and his LL.B. from Stanford University Law School.  He is a member of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, having served on the Committee on Matrimonial Law, the American Bar Association (Family Law Section, former member of Task Force on Standards of Practice of Divorce Mediation), and The New York State Council on Divorce Mediation.  He has twice served on the Board of Directors of the Family and Divorce Mediation Council of Greater New York, and is a founding member of the New York Collaborative Law Group.