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 How many different meetings usually occur in a divorce mediation? Does it get resolved in the second time, third time, first time, what? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL Well, there’s several different modalities. Some divorce mediators believe in three-to-four-hour sessions. That developed because you have […]
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media I’ve been involved in a number of settlement conferences, mediations, in a number of civil cases over decades, and they’re scheduled for all day. I really appreciate you setting up a schedule of an hour and a half. What I have found was that it’s a complete waste of
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Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL But at that point, if the judge feels, after talking to the lawyers, that the case is ripe for divorce mediation, he or she may order the parties to meet with a mediator. And then the only thing that the judge is told at the end
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media How do you resolve conflicts that arise during that, you know, two people butting heads? How do you resolve the conflict that is invariably going to happen or else they wouldn’t be there in the first place? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – SSarasota, FL The training that
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media So, it sounds like the traditional attorney-client privilege, which is kind of interesting here, extends to both parties with you. Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL Yes, because there’s going to be, in the mediation agreement, it will say specifically, you know, will deal with confidentiality.
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media Because we’re human, everybody has a different type of style, and that’s one of the interesting things I read about when I was preparing for this interview, that they talked about the style of mediation. And you know, so I ask you, what is, as a divorce mediator, what
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media What’s the difference between mediation and arbitration? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL I am a trained arbitrator and will sometimes be asked to arbitrate even marital related cases. The reason why arbitration in the domestic relations field hasn’t really taken off like it has in
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media You’ve mentioned uncontested. Does that mean they didn’t file? They went to you before, so there’s no court filings? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL Yes. And now, that’s interesting because for the first 28 years of my practice in New York, it was unethical for
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media Well, it sounds like those, the couple, each party has to have some level of trust in the mediator before things may or may not work out in the end. But I think that’s part of the beginning process, wouldn’t it be? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney –
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media Is divorce mediation only for simple matters or can it handle complicated matters also? Or complicated situations? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL My last two mediations involved older couples. One was a husband-nurse couple and a very successful doctor. They had $17 million worth of
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