Our Law Firm was founded by attorney William J. Leininger in 1981. Mr. Leininger is a native New Yorker who graduated from Regis High School in Manhattan and St. Francis College in Brooklyn. In 1974, he graduated from Fordham Law School with the rank of #1 in his Evening Division. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1975 and was subsequently admitted to the Bars of New Jersey and Florida. Mr. Leininger has appeared on the Phil Donahue Show, the Sally Jessy Raphael Show, the Today Show on NBC, the CBS Morning Show, and other national television and radio programs, and has lectured on Divorce for over 40 years. Mr. Leininger became a certified Divorce Mediator in 1994. Since then, he has mediated over 850 cases to completion. We believe that he is one of the most experienced attorney divorce mediators who mediates online with New York residents getting divorced.
No one likes to be thought of as a case number. Every person in our office is here for one purpose: To serve you. If you don’t receive the close personal attention you want, nothing else matters. When you are a mediation client of our firm, you become part of our family. And we guarantee you’ll receive the best service we can offer.
You deserve to be kept current on the progress of your divorce mediation. So we will send you copies of all correspondence and other documents both coming into and going out of our office that concern your case. Good communication is the key to a good working relationship with your divorce mediator. And we intend to make sure that your relationship with our firm is the best you have ever had…or ever will have.
You can be sure that all mediation and legal services performed by our office will be of the highest caliber. If you ever find anything that does not meet your needs or expectations, please bring it to our attention. We will correct the situation immediately
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media So, is divorce mediation, is it voluntary, as we just discussed, or is it court mandated? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Richmond County, NY That’s changed over the years. Up until recently, New York didn’t have any mandated divorce mediation process. Florida, on the other hand, has […]
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media Well, let me ask this question, because you raised an interesting point that I read about. Some of these celebrity divorces were extremely interwoven with finances and relationships, contracts, et cetera, etcetera. What I read about was that a judge said, OK, I’m going to grant you the right
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Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL There is a related process which has come about in the last 10 or 12 years to divorce mediation and that is called collaborative divorce law. And without spending a lot of time on it, I’m trained in collaborative divorce. The basic difference between divorce mediation
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Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL If you don’t try, you don’t have a consultation with an experienced divorce mediator, you and your spouse ask the tough questions. How knowledgeable is this attorney? How many years of practice has this attorney had just in the divorce field? And you leave that…. I
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Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL So, I went to law school, and I went into family law because I wanted to help people. And to see what we were doing, lawyers were intentionally or inadvertently, depending upon how bad of a human being they were, they wanted to pour salt on
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media Why wouldn’t everybody use divorce mediation and stay out of court? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL That’s the reason why I tell everyone, you know, you really have to be kind of dumb not to at least explore divorce mediation because the benefits are so
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media There’s divorce lawyers or divorce mediators and so there’s competition. So what would you say to somebody who walks in your office? Why should they use you versus the guy down the street? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL Well, I don’t know if the guy
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media So, who pays for the cost of a divorce mediation? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL Great question. Common sense. If we have a house husband or a housewife and they’ve been taking care of their kids, maybe the most important job either one has, and
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media And I think what I’m getting from your description and detail of divorce mediation is the fairness. Am I correct? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL Yeah, and of course, you know, the fairness is in the eye of the beholder, but let me tell you
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