Chaim’s continuing studies

Item: Chaim Steinberger, P.C.
Rating: 5
Author: Izzy Fried

Professional Education & Training

Some of the areas Mr. Steinberger studies and emphasizes are:

Trial Skills

Direct Examination
Cross-Examination
Rules of Evidence
Rules of Procedure

Litigation

Advanced Legal Writing

Discovery

Clever, Efficient Discovery

Strategy & Tactics

Legal and Adversarial Strategy
Legal Jiu-Jitsu
Game Theory
Economic

Mediation & Negotiation

Psychology

Pertaining to Negotiation, Persuasion, and Other Relevant Topics

Improv & Acting

For Compelling, Persuasive Presentations

Arbitration

Collaborative Law

In addition, Mr. Steinberger attended the following courses:

February 8, 2016, ABA, The Dealmaker’s Commandments;
January 6, 2016, AMA, Linda Hill, Being the Boss, 3 Imperatives of Becoming a Great Leader (amanet.org/WLC);
December 14, 2015, ABA Webinar, Mandatory Accrual Accounting for Law Firms: Tax Reforms or Impending Storm?
December 14, 2015, ABA Webinar, Mandatory Accrual Accounting for Law Firms: Tax Reforms or Impending Storm?
December 10, 2015, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Mediation Program, Making Money Talk (Andy Little);
December 7, 2015, AAML NY & AD1, Prenups & Post-nups: Where Are We Now?
November 11, 2015, CityBar, Unleashing the Power of CaseMaker;
October 19, 2015, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, All in the Family: Intimate Parties, Intimate Issues, and ADR;
September 21, 2015, ABA Webinar, Supreme Court Preview: The 2015-16 Term;
September 10, 2015, Avvo Webinar, “Someone Online Hates You: Ethical Approaches to Online Reputation Management.”
August 17, 2015, ABA Webinar, “Representing Clients in Mediation: A Master Class in Mediation Advocacy”;
July 28, 2015, ABA Webinar, “Using Brain Science for Better Mediations” (Michelle Jernigan);
July 23, 2015, SDNY Mediation Program, Getting Past Impasse;
July 9–11, 2015, NYSBA FLS, Lake Placid, NY;
May 20, 2015, MatLaw, Cross-Examination of Expert Witnesses;
May 5, 2015, ABA FLS Spring meeting, Carlsbad, CA;
February 24, 2015, ABA teleseminar, Sharon Strand Ellison, “What Makes a Question Backfire? The Art of Asking Powerful Disarming Questions”;
January 30, 2015, 2015 NYSBA Annual Meeting: Comm on Children & the Law (Interstate Compact);
January 29, 2015, 2015 NYSBA Annual Meeting, Family Law Section Meeting;
November 21, 2014, AFCC Shared Parenting & Young Children: The Conundrum;
January 7–11, 2015, Colorado Bar Association, 2015 National CLE Conference;
November 11, 2014, MatLaw Systems Corp., Annual Ultimate Update;
November 5, 2014, Federal Bar Assoc., SDNY Chapter, Negotiation Skills for Deals, Disputes & Mediation;
November 3, 2014, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Is Mediation a Sleeping Beauty?
October 24, 2014, NYSBA FLS Divorce Anniversaries;
October 16–18, 2014, ABA FLS Fall meeting, Stowe, VT(Creative financial issues, Cross-examination, Effective Use of Trusts; ART contracts; Strategies that Withstand Attack; Essentials of Addiction; HIPAA in Reproductive Rights; HIPAA Essentials; Private Investigator; Ethics of Social Media);
October 7, 2014, CityBar, Common Disciplinary Problems and How to Prevent Them;
July 10-12, 2014, NYSBA FLS Summer Meeting, Lake Placid, NY;
May 8–10, 2014, ABA FLS Spring meeting, Bermuda, Emerging Issues in Relocation Cases (Dr. Philip Stahl); Parallel Parenting: When Things that Should Intersect Don’t (Dr. Robert Simon); Estate Planning Aspects of Divorce; High Conflict Custody Cases; How to Find Your Spouse’s Secret Offshore Bank Accounts: Using Tax Reporting Requirements as a Discovery Tool; Don’t Leave Money on the Table: Uncovering Non-traditional and Hidden Income for Support Calculations;
April 21, 2014, CityBar, Enforcement of Judgment, Martin Bienstock, NYC Marshal & V.P. Marshal’s Association City of New York, Bernard D’Orazio, Bernard D’Orazio & Assocs., P.C., Michael C. Miller, Steptoe & Johnson LLP;
January 30, 2014, NYSBA FLS Meeting;
January 23, 2014, USDC, SDNY, Employment Law Mediation Training;
October 25, 2013, USDC EDNY Mediation Skills Workshop;
October 21, 2013, NYS Appellate Division, First Dept., Contemporary Issues in NY Matrimonial Law 2013: A View From the Bench;
April 18-20, 2013, ABA FLS Anchorage Alaska including:Expert Consultant or Mind Reader: Using Psychologists to Win Your Custody Case (Phil Stahl & Robert Simon); Cross-Examining the Mental Health Expert (Allen Palmer & Herman Walker); Navigating the Emotional Currents of Collaborative Law (Mark Baer, Esq., Alan Boudreau, Esq., Richard Lazur, Ph.D.); Get Your Ss Together: The Science, Speculation & Sorcery of Attachment Theory (Robert Simon) Cultural Issues in the Courtroom (Ed Newman, J. Sen Tan, Jacqueline Valdespino, Esq.);
February 6, 2013, Jewish Lawyer’s Guild, How Judges Decide, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP;
January 9, 2013, Jeffrey Toobin’s The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court, NYCLA;
November 15, 2012, Matlaw Systems Corp., Annual Update;
October 25, 2012, How to Try an Order of Protection Proceeding in a Divorce Case, NYCLA (Brianna Denney & Dror Bikel);
October 11-13, 2012, ABA FLS Fall CLE Conference (Philadelphia, PA), Everything You Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask About Ethics, Valuation and Distribution of Non-transferable Limited Partnership & Other . . . ; Extraordinary Issues for Extraordinary Kids: A Primer on the Financial Issues in Special Needs Cases; A World of Trouble, A World of Divorce: Helping Clients in an International Custody Dispute (Jeremy Morley);
August 23, 2012, Battered Mothers and Parental Kidnapping – What Every Advocate Should Know, webinar;
August 20, 2012, ABA Webinar, Powerful Witness Preparation, Daniel I. Small, Holland & Knight, and Anthony A. Joseph, Maynard Cooper & Gale PC;
August 15, 2012, presenter at ABA Webinar, Making More Money by Being More Ethical;
July 12-15, 2012, NYSBA FLS Summer Meeting, Gideon Putnam Hotel, Saratoga Springs, NY, The Art & Rules of Cross-Examination in Family Law Trials (Stephen Gassman); Forensic Experts: What the Judge Wants to Learn Before Trial and at Trial (Judges Sunshine & Gesmer); The Custody Expert: Understanding the Report & Conducting Cross Examinations at Trial (Timothy Tippins & Jeffrey Wittmann); The Valuation Expert: Understanding the Report & Conducting Examinations at Trial (Susan Bender, William Herman & John Johnson); Maximizing the Impact of your Experts: Tips and Strategies (Susan Bender, William Herman, John Johnson, Tim Tippins, Jeffrey Wittmann & Judges Sunshine & Gesmer); Matrimonial Update (Keith Rieger o/b/o Bruce Wagner, Esq.);
June 4, 2012, The Essentials of Addiction: A New Understanding for Family Law Practitioners, Forensic Experts and the Court (ALAN RAVITZ, Senior Director of Forensic Psychiatry; Senior Pediatric Psychopharmacologist, Child Mind Institute; RICHARD BOHN KRUEGER, Medical Director, Sexual Behavior Clinic, New York State Psychiatric Institute & Columbia University Department of Psychiatry; ALLAN M. LANS, Consulting Physician in Psychiatry, Hospital for Special Surgery; Consulting Physician in Psychiatry, St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Hospital Center; ANDREW TATARSKY, Director, Center for Optimal Living);
May 9, 2012, NY City Bar, Early Neutral Evaluation Skills Workshop;
April 19- 21, 2012, ABA FLS CLE Conference, Miami Beach, FL;
November 9, 2011, Matlaw Systems, Annual Ultimate Update 2011;
October 27-29, 2011, ABA FLS CLE Conference, Las Vegas, NV;
October 20, 2011, NYCLA, Acting for Lawyers;
May 16, 2011, NY City Bar, The Why, Where, and How of Transformative Mediation, Prof. Baruch Bush;
May 14, 2011, NYCLA & Interdisciplinary Forum on Mental Health & Law, Imposed Joint Custody: Does it Work? (DA Martindale, Greif, Judge Gesmer, Susan Bender);
May 25, 2011, NYCLA, Using Experts in Matrimonial Cases–The Experts Speak; Gerald Defeo (acct.), Lawrence Sicular (real estate), Peter Theobald (electronic data gathering), Dr. Alex Weintraub (child psychiatry), Rona Wexler (vocational);
May 25, 2011, NY City Bar, Temporary Maintenance: The New Formula and The New Statute (Laura Drager, J.);
April 9, 2011, ABA Section of Family Law, Children and Taxes-Good News, Bad News;
October 21-23, 2010, ABA FLS Fall Meeting, Ft. Worth, TX, 10/22/10 Zero to Three: Parenting Issues & Parenting Plans for Young; 10/22/10 Ex, Lies and Videotape; 10/23/10 Identifying and Solving Tax Issues in Family Law Cases; 10/23/10 Spy Torts, Damages, and Tail Time;
October 20, 2010, New York State Appellate Division, First Dept., 2010: Where Matrimonial Law Is Headed;
April 22, 2010, NYSBA Teleconference, Paying Partners What they’re Worth: Alternatives for Law Firms;
April 15-17, 2010, ABA FLS Spring Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 4/17/10 Alimony: Getting It and Keeping It; 4/17/10 How to Ethically Prepare a Client; 4/16/10 This Old House: Protecting Your Client’s Interest; 4/16/10 The Ethical Use of Private Investigators; 4/15/10 Death and Divorce in the Golden Years; 4/15/10 Fifteen Ways to Raise Your Practice to a New Level;
April 7, 2010, Brooklyn Bar Association, The Craft of Cross-Examination with Timothy Tippins;
January 28, 2010, Family Law Section Annual Meeting, Mega Matrimonial Update (Bruce J. Wagner, Esq.);
January 21-23, NYACP, One Coach Model collaborative practice training (Linda Solomon);
November 20, 2009, Collaborative Law Conference, Hofstra University School of Law;
October 23-25, 2009, International Academy of Collaborative Professionals annual forum (Minneapolis, MN) 10/24/09 Advanced Negotiation Strategies (Woody Mosten); Negotiating During Troubled Times: A Framework for Effective Negotiation (Daniel Shapiro, PhD, Director, International Negotiation Initiative); Working Through Emotional Minefields (Lisa Herrick, PhD, Falls Church, VA; Kate Scharff, MSW, Bethesda, MD); 10/25/09 Applied Non-Defensive Techniques for Collaborative Cases (Sharon Ellison, MA, Oakland, CA); Emotion and Decision Making: What the Face Reveals (Dr. Jennifer Lerner, Harvard)
October 13, 2009, New York Association of Collaborative Professionals, The Invisible Children: Bringing the Adult Children into the Collaborative Process (Drs. Jeffrey Zimmerman & Lauren Behrman);
October 8-10, 2009, ABA FLS Fall Meeting, Montreal, Canada 10/08/09 The Agreement Is Signed: Is There Any Way Out? (Anne Albright, Andrew Berman, Kate Vetrano) 10/9/09 Today’s Celebrity and High Net-Worth Client (Alan Kluger, Maurice Kutner, Philip Shechter, Alison Weinger) 10/10/09 Don’t Curse the Darkness… Light a Match (Lonny Balbi, Melissa Brown, Steve Peskind) 10/10/09 Psychological Barriers to Settlement and Resolution (Kathie Nichols, Ph.D., Patrick Nichols)
April 22-25, 2009, ABA FLS Spring Meeting, Baltimore, MD 4/24/09 The Identification & Exploitation of Valuation Manipulation (Karen Robbins, Olney, MD; Michelle Gallagher, Lansing, MI; & Robert Greenwald, Solon, OH) 4/24/09 Everything You Wanted to Know About Reasonable Compensation 4/24/09 How to Find, Freeze & Retrieve Marital Assets Hidden Abroad(Lawrence Katz, Miami, FL & Donald Temple, Baltimore, MD) 4/25/09 Presenter, The Magic of Collaborative Law (w/ Neal Kozek & Jerome Johnson, Albuquerque, NM)
April 16-18, 2009, ABA Section of Dispute Resolution, 11th Annual Spring Conference; Building Bridges to a Better Society;
March 20, 2009, NYS UCS, Domestic Violence Training for Collaborative Divorce Professionals;
January 29, 2009, NYSBA Annual Meeting Family Law Section Meeting;
January 29, 2009, NYSBA Annual Meeting Dispute Resolution Meeting;
December 3, 2008, Billing Pitfalls & Pratfalls: Avoiding the Ethical Issues that Snag Attorneys, American Bar Association Family Law Section (lecturer, along with Lori Nelson & Mark Chinn);
November 20, 2008, Dennis McInerney NYCLA American Inn of Court, The Runaway Client;
October 28, 2008, Brooklyn Bar Association, QDROs, Pension Valuations & Property Settlement Agreements (Bill Burns, Lexington Pension Consultants);
October 3-5, 2008, ABA FLS Fall Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ; Lawyers in La La Land; Ethical Considerations in Collaborative Law; The Art of the Draft: Premarital Agreements;
August 7-10, 2008, ABA Annual Meeting, New York, NY; 8/10/08 Hot Tips from the Experts; 8/08/08 It’s not Just About e-Mail, Electronic Evidence; 8/07/08 Avoiding First Date Jitters: Tips for Your First Meeting with your Expert 8/07/08 Intimate Partner Sexual Abuse as Domestic Violence: What Judges, Lawyers & Victim Advocates Need to Know;
July 10-13, 2008, NYSBA Family Law Section Summer Meeting at Manchester Village,;
June 2, 2008, New York Association of Collaborative Professionals, Working with a Financial Neutral in the Collaborative Process;
April 30-May 3, 2008, ABA FLS Spring Meeting, Chicago, IL, Mock Trial – Custody Hearing; The Utility of Psychological Testing in Custody; Custody Evaluation Standards & Guidelines; Collaborative Practice/Collaborative Law;
April 15, 2008, NYS Judicial Institute, Advanced Training for Commercial Division Mediators;
April 10-12, 2008, NY Assoc. of Collaborative Professionals & The Center for Mediation in Law, Introduction to Collaborative Law for Lawyers (Jack Himmelstein & Kathryn Miller);
March 17, 2008, New York City Bar, New York Adoption Law in a Nutshell;
January 31, 2008, NYSBA FLS Annual Meeting;
November 20, 2007, Association of Arbitrators, Small Claims Arbitrator Training), together with observation;
November 14, 2007, MatLaw Systems Corp., Ultimate Update;
November 7, 2007, Brooklyn Bar Association, Tracing Missing Persons;
October 15, 2007, Brooklyn Bar Association Matrimonial Law I;
October 11-13, 2007, ABA FLS meeting in Memphis, TN, included “Family Law-The Intersection with Federal law,” “UCCJEA – Child Custody Jurisdiction,” and “Handling Difficult Substance Abuse–Now I Know the Retainer was Set Too Low”;
October 9, 2007, NYS Judicial Institute, Why (Not) Collaborative Law?
September 27, 2007, NYCLA Inn of Court, The Government is Listening (legal issues surrounding FISA and the USA PATRIOT Act) (panel included Judge Keenan of the S.D.N.Y.);
July 13-14, 2007, NYSBA Family Law Section Summer meeting at Manchester Village, VT;
April 28, 2007, Interdisciplinary Forum: Effective Legal and Therapeutic Responses to Alienated Children in Divorce and Custody Settings, New York County Lawyer’s Association;
April 11, 2007, Brooklyn Bar Association, Understanding New York’s Advertising Rules for Attorneys;
January 25, 2007, NYSBA Family Law Section Meeting;
October 26, 2006, NYCLA American Inn of Court, The Military Commissions Act;
October 6, 2006, New York City Bar, The Miller Commission Symposium, Improving Justice for Children of Divorce and Separation;
September 28, 2006, Brooklyn Bar Association, Evidence Update;
July 13-15, NYSBA Family Law Section summer meeting;
May 22, 2006, NYS Judicial Institute, Advanced Mediation Training;
May 4-6, 2006, American Bar Association FLS Spring CLE Conference; How to Avoid/Prevent an IRS Audit; Ethical Aspects of Creating & Enforcing Fee Agreements; Family Law on the Hill – A Primer for Congressional Lobbying; Parenting Gone Bad – Litigating Parental Alienation Claims
April 3, 2006, Brooklyn Bar Association, Jury Selection;
January 26, 2006, New York State Bar Association, 2006 Annual Meeting: Family Law Section (Bob Dobrish, Dr. David A. Martindale);
January 31, 2006, New York County Lawyers’ Association, The Evolving Role of Forensics in Custody Litigation (Tim Tippins, Jeffrey Whitman, Ph.D., Judge George Jurow & Bernice Shaul, Ph.D.);
December 19, 2005, Brooklyn Bar Association, The Thin Green Line: Marital Property vs. Separate Property;
December 5, 2005, MatLaw Systems Corp., Ultimate Update, 2005 (Tim Tippins);
November 9, 2005, Brooklyn Bar Association, Ethical Perils of Small Firms and Solo Practitioners: It’s All About Time and Money;
October 20, 2005, NYCLA American Inn of Court, The Judith Miller Case: Are Reporters Privileged Not to Testify? @ Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP;
September 29-October 1, 2005, ABA FLS Fall Meeting: High Profile Cases Aren’t Just for the Rich and Famous; Direct Examination of the Financial Expert; You Say Your Income is How Much? Hot Tips in Law Practice Management;
September 22, 2005, American Inns of Court, Data Forensics and E-Discovery for Attorneys (P.G. Lewis & Associates, LLC);
September 20, 2005, Brooklyn Bar Association Evidence Update: 2005 (Richard Farrell);
July 7, 2005, NYSBA Family Law Section Summer Meeting;
June 8, 2005, New York State Supreme Court, Kings County, Referee Program;
May 23, 2005, MatLaw Systems Corp., How to Analyze and Challenge Custody;
May 16, 2005, Brooklyn Bar Association, Advanced Matrimonial Practice (Justice Sunshine & Joan Lipton);
March 10, 2005, Brooklyn Bar Association, Matrimonial Law Update (Steven Cohn & Saul Edelstein);
January 27, 2005, NYSBA 2005 Annual Family Law Section Meeting;
8/6/2004 Foreclosure and Other Receiverships (self study audio CD) NYSBA;
October 28, 2004, NYCLA Inn of Court, Bush v. Gore @ Cahill Gordon & Reindell LLP;
October 25, 2004, Appellate Division, First Department, Powerful Openings (Benjamin Bronfman);
September 27, 2004, Brooklyn Bar Association, Evidence Update: 2004;
September 22, 2004, Brooklyn Bar Association seminar Update on Representing the Purchaser or Seller in a Multi-family or Commercial Real Estate Transaction;
July 19, 2004, New York County Lawyers’ Association, What Every Matrimonial Lawyer Needs to Know about New Jersey and Connecticut Laws;
July 8, 2004, New York State Bar Association Family Law Section Summer Meeting at Manchester Village, Vermont;
June 23, 2004, New York State Interdisciplinary Forum on Mental Health and Family Law & NYCLA, Resolving Custody Conflicts in New York: Are We Out of Step With the Rest of the Nation? (Andrew Shepard & Harold Mayerson);
June 8, 2004, Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association, Cross-examining the Forensic Expert in Child Custody Cases;
April 28-May 1, 2004, ABA Family Law Section meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico; The Value of an Expert: Working with a Valuation Expert–Beyond the Basics; Approaching the Golden Years with No Band of Gold; Challenging the Superego: How to prepare for a Psychologists Testimony.
April 2004, self-study, NYSBA Matrimonial and Family Law 2003;
April 14, 2004, Brooklyn Bar Association “Confronting Possible Client Fraud: Is `Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ an Ethically Acceptable Approach?”
January 30, 2004, New York State Bar Association 2004 Annual Meeting: Children & the Law
January 29, 2004, New York State Bar Association, 2004 Annual Meeting of the Family Law Section;
2002-2003, Brooklyn Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project, Inc.;
November 20, 2003, NYCLA Chapter of the American Inns of Court, An Interactive Introduction to Alternative Dispute Resolution @ Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP (NY);
November 14, 2003, Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York, Law Guardian Training Program;
November 10-11, 2003, New York State Bar Association Family Law Section Fall Meeting, Savannah, GA;
October 28, 2003, New York County Lawyers’ Association, Ethical Dilemmas in Child Custody and Other Forensic Evaluations;
October 21, 2003, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Selected Problems in Negotiating and Drafting Separation Agreements (Myrna Felder & Timothy Tippins;
Thursday, October 16, 2003, Brooklyn Bar Association, Tort Law Lunchtime Seminar: The Knee and Meniscus;
September 24, 2003, Brooklyn Bar Association, Tort Law Seminar: The Spine and Soft Tissue Injuries);
September 22, 2003, Brooklyn Bar Association, Evidence Update: 2003 (Richard T. Farrell);
July 10-13, 2003, New York State Bar Association Family Law Section Summer Meeting, at the Equinox in Manchester, VT (faculty: Bruce Wagner, Hon. Jacqueline W. Silberman, Hon. Eugene F. Pigott, Jr., P.J., A.D. 4th Dept., Roger J. Dodd);
Spring 1999 audio recording, New York State Bar Association, Jury Selection Techniques: The Basics for the Civil Practitioner (faculty: Richard C. Eniclerico, Cynthia Weiss Antonucci, Bruce A. Jackson, Robert S. Kelner, Christopher T. McGrath, Philip J. McManus, R. Paul McTiernan, Marvin Salenger, Hon. Alice Schlesinger, Evan E. Torgan);
June 11, 2003, New York County Lawyers’ Association Nanette Dembitz Memorial Lecture on the Integrated Domestic Violence Courts, A View from the Inside (Faculty: Hon. Tandra L. Dawson, Linda Capitti, Alison Maria Grinnell, Thommsa Bobma, James Glynn & Carol Sherman);
Monthly meetings of the Matrimonial Law Section of the New York County Lawyers’ Association;
May 19, 2003, Brooklyn Bar Association, “Trends in Equitable Distribution” (Lawrence Rothbart, Esq., David N. Rudman, CPA/ABV, CVA);
May 17, 2003, The New York State Interdisciplinary Forum on Mental Health and Family Law & The Association of the Bar of the City of New York Matrimonial Law Committee, “Deconstructing the Forensic Child Custody Evaluation: Is it Science Fact or Science Fiction?” (Philip M. Stahl, Ph.D.);
May 12, 2003, Brooklyn Bar Association, “Family Law Series-Custody and Visitation,(Faculty: Hon. Jeffrey Sunshine & Lawrence Pollak, Esq.);
May 2, 2003, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, “Selected Problems in Advanced Matrimonial Practice,” (Faculty: Bruce J. Wagner, William C. Herman, Stephen Gassman, Joel C. Bender, Eleanor Breitel Alter, David Aronson, Esqs.);
April 23, 2003, New York County Lawyers’ Association Matrimonial Law Section “Update on Matrimonial Law,” April 28, 2003 (Panel: Justice John E.H. Stackhouse, Stephen Gassman, Joan A. Lipton, CPA, Ph.D., Bonnie E. Rabin);
________, Association for Family and Conciliation Courts, “Effective Cross-Examination of the Mental Health Expert in Custody Cases: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue,” (Faculty: Justice Laura Drager; Alayne Katz & Kenneth D. Burrows, Esqs., and Drs. Stephen Herman & Marion Gindes);
April 4 & 11, 2003, Brooklyn Bar Association, “Part 137 Attorney-Client Fee Dispute Arbitrators’ Training,”;
April 2, 2003, NYSBA “Family Court Practice: Custody, Child Protective Proceedings & Ethics” (Faculty: Michael D. Stutman, Professor Martin Guggenheim, Michelle F.P. Roberts, Hon. Philip C. Segal, Elliot Wiener & Brian Zimmerman, Esqs.);
January 23, 2003, The New York State Bar Association Family Law Section Winter Meeting;
January 16, 2003, American Inns of Court at Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, “Cameras in the Courtroom and the Legislature–A Docudrama of the Ethics and the Practicalities of Dealing with the New York State Legislature”;
November 21, 2002, American Inns of Court at Cahill Gordon & Reindel, “The Search for Electronically Stored Evidence”;
November 20, 2002, New York County Lawyers’ Association, “How to Litigate a Child Custody Case,” (Faculty: Judges Andrias & Gische; Myrna Felder, David Aronson, & Susan Bender, Esqs.; & Linda Gunsberg, Ph.D.);
October 24, 2002, Schulte, Roth & Zabel, “The Role of In-house Counsel in Light of Tyco, Enron & WorldCom”;
September 27-28, 2002, New York County Lawyers’ Association, “Family Court Trial Practice Institute” (Faculty: Judges-Paula J. Hepner, Susan Knipps, Joseph M. Lauria, Sarah P. Schechter & Stuart Weinstein; Judicial Officers-H.E. Robert Mulroy, Emily Olshansky, H.E. Nicholas Palos & Harriet Weinberger; Attorneys-Caryn Adelman, Virginia Geiss, Ilana Gruebel, Glenn Metsch-Ampel, Ronald Richter, Joan Siegel, Cheryl S. Solomon, Gary S. Solomon, Marilyn L. Zarrello & Brian J. Zimmerman);
September 26, 2002, New York State Bar Association, “A Primer on Automobile Litigation”;
September 25, 2002, American Inns of Court seminar at Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, “The Dos and Don’ts of Effective Advocacy”;
April 7, 2002, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, “New York Commercial Litigation Practice: A Judicial Commentary” (James d’Auguste);
April 4, 2002, American Inns of Court seminar at Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, “Ethics: When Your Case is on the Line”;
July 11, 2002, New York State Bar Association Family Law Section summer meeting(Manchester, Vermont);
January 24, 2002, New York State Bar Association Family Law Section winter meeting;
January 23, 2002, New York State Bar Association Commercial and Federal Litigation Section meeting;
January 17, 2002, American Bar Association, “McElhany on Litigation: Making Evidence Work For You”;
November 16, 2001, New York State Bar Association, “Criminal Law Update–The Basics;
November 14, 2001, American Bar Association, “Good News in Tax Law”;
September 20, 2001, American Bar Association, “Internet Privacy Issues,”;
November 5, 2001, Fordham University School of Law, “A Tale of Two Systems: The State & Federal Courts in N.Y. . . .”;
November 2, 2001, NYSBA Matrimonial and Family Law “Update 2001”;
April 25, 2001, (American Inns of Court? at) Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, “Jury Consultants — Who Are These People? Aid(e)s in Jury Selection”;
February 8, 2001, New York City Bar, “Legal Ethics in the Practice of Criminal Law”
January 22, 2001, Lawline.com, “How to Cross Examine Taped Evidence”(Ben Brafman);
January 22, 2001, Lawline.com, “Avoiding Malpractice Claims and Disciplinary Complaints” (Hal Liebman);
January 20, 2001, New York State Trial Lawyers’ Institute, “David D. Siegel’s CPLR Update”;
November 28, 2000, Brooklyn Bar Association, “2000 Matrimonial Update: How to Handle an Uncontested Divorce and Negotiate a Settlement”;
October 2, 2000, Appellate Division, First Department, “Defending Against Allegations of Domestic Violence”(Faculty: Michele Maxian & Andrew Eibel, Esqs.);
April 3, 2000, Appellate Division, First Department, “Family Court Appeals” (Faculty: Justice David Friedman; Barbara Dildine, Leonard Florescue & Gary Solomon, Esqs.);
April 13-27, 1999, New York City Bar, “The ABCs of Federal Criminal Litigation”;
January 20, 1999, New York City Bar, “Selecting the Right Jury for Your Case”;
December 1992, Safe Horizon Mediation Certification Program (Josh Stuhlberg & Leila Love);