Adam Berner is a practicing Mediator, Collaborative Lawyer and Conflict Resolution Trainer in the New York and New Jersey area who has devoted his professional career for the past 15 years, to help individuals, families, and organizations make better choices in the face of conflict.

By providing an array of dispute resolution services in an informal and confidential environment, Adam has enabled thousands of clients reach informed, satisfying and cost effective resolutions to conflict based on their mutual needs and goals. Adam helps his clients create their own agreements, based on their own values, priorities and schedules. Clients decide on their future - with each other, not against each other!

Adam is recognized as one of the most active and well established Attorney-Mediators in his area. In addition to his private practice, Adam is an experienced and sought after trainer and speaker, leading workshops in mediation and conflict resolution to attorneys, court personnel, mediators, schools, clergy and corporate staff throughout the New York and New Jersey area.

Adam is the Immediate Past President of the Family Divorce Mediation Counsel of Greater New York. For over a decade, her has served as an Adjunct Professor at Cardozo School of Law where he has taught general and divorce mediation classes in addition to family law at the law school. Adam also serves as the Director of Mediation Training at the New York Center for Interpersonal Developments' (NYCID) Conflict Resolution Training Institute.  But if you are reading this website, Adam is interested in focusing on you, not himself. 

IS MEDIATION OR COLLABORATIVE LAW RIGHT FOR YOU? YOU HAVE CHOICES.  YOU SHOULD BE MAKING INFORMED DECISIONS.

If you are considering whether Mediation or other Conflict Resolution Services are right for you....

It is helpful to realize that there is a wide range of choices available to help you resolve a dispute. In an ideal situation, all sides can sit down together and try to work out their differences (a preference, encouraged by Adam, wherever appropriate). In a worst case scenario, the parties can be engulfed in an all out war, or in the legal context, entangled in a destructive process which quickly escalates to protracted and expensive litigation. Between these two options lie numerous alternative processes to help resolve disputes and/or improve relations with one another.

Towards this end, Adam Berner's Mediation, Collaborative Law & Conflict Resolution Offices help parties in dispute find the best conflict resolution alternatives available for their particular dispute and situation.

Consider this analogy: If you had a back problem or another physical ailment, would surgery be your first option? I hope not, especially if a different form of treatment is available claiming to offer all the same benefits of a full cure and recovery without any of the significant risks of surgery. At least, you would seek a second opinion.

There is a way of resolving disputes, getting separated, divorced or working out a pre-nuptial agreement without risking the loss of amicable relationships, the ability to have a positive co-parenting plan, or without incurring significant financial and emotional expense.

You are invited to explore this website and to learn more about some of the conflict resolution services and processes available to you. Where you would like more information, we invite you to contact us (in confidence) by telephone or e-mail.

Convenient Offices with flexible scheduling in Manhattan, New York and Teaneck, New Jersey

For further information or to schedule an appointment please contact Adam J. Berner at:

 (212) 721-7555  or  (201) 836-0666, or

via email at Adam@MediationOffices.com