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Marc Fleisher, J.D. 98 Riverside Drive, Suite 1B (82nd Street) New York, NY 10024-5323 tel. (212) 595-0595 fax (212) 595-0760 Email: marcfleisher@mindspring.com Website: www.marcfleisher.net |
An experienced and skilled divorce mediator and co-founder of the New York Collaborative Law Group in New York City, Marc has both a strong command of family and matrimonial law and a sensitivity to the psychodynamics of interpersonal relationships. An attorney since 1980, Marc has studied family therapy at the Ackerman Institute for the Family, where he has worked closely with family therapists in helping couples in transition. Indeed, Marc teaches divorce mediation in both an academic and clinical setting to psychotherapists and attorneys as a faculty member at Ackerman. He also teaches divorce mediation and general mediation skills throughout the academic year and the summer semester at Brooklyn Law School where he designed the school’s alternative dispute resolution program, and taught its first ADR course. Marc was also a visiting faculty member at Columbia Law School where he taught its mediation clinic. He also teaches mediation at the Center for Mediation in Law where he once served as the chairman of its continuing education committee. In addition, Marc has taught divorce mediation at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and teaches at the annual Bioethics and the Medical Humanities mediation retreat, and at the Sarah Lawrence College Health Advocacy Program. He is a co-founder, with Chris Stern Hyman, of Medical Mediation Group which resolves disputes in the health care community. Marc is an Advanced Practitioner Member of the Family Law Section of the Association of Conflict Resolution, www.acr.org (formerly the Academy of Family Mediators), an Accredited Member of the New York State Council on Divorce Mediation, a Certified Member of the Manhattan and Brooklyn Mediation Centers, and a member of the mediation panel for the New York State Supreme Court’s first custody and visitation mediation program. Marc is also a member of the referral panel for divorce mediation of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and a former member of the Association’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. Although Marc has a strong background in litigation – he was an associate at the litigation department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, a prosecutor who tried over thirty felony cases for Robert Morgenthau in the New York County District Attorney’s Office, and a Professor of Trial Advocacy at Brooklyn Law School, (and as a visitor at (Cardozo Law School and Hofstra University School of Law) – Marc has, for the past ten years, devoted his practice to resolving disputes in a non-adversarial manner. Three years ago, he co-founded the New York Collaborative Law Group and currently serves on its governance committee. Collaborative Law is a process for individuals who favor the mediation approach, but would rather have the ongoing protection and support of a lawyer without having to go to court. www.collaborativelawny.com. Marc has given numerous talks and presentations at conferences, examples of which include The Economics of Divorce; Ethical Issues in Representing Parties in Mediation; and Collaborative Law: A New Process Option for Divorcing Couples. Articles: A Saner Smarter Way To Say Goodbye If you would like to contact him, please either click the e-mail link
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