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
Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Richmond County, NY 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…. […]
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Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Richmond County, NY 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
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media Hi, this is Ray Hrdlicka with Attorneys.Media and today we’re sitting with Bill Leininger, an attorney who specializes in a very unique area of law called divorce mediation. He practices in Staten Island, New York, and we’re going to be sitting down with him talking about all the intricacies
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media Do the spouses see each other, that was very good Bill, do the spouses see each other in divorce mediation? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Richmond County, NY Well, the third group in that 6 or 7 percent that don’t work out is where there’s been domestic
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media They’re coming to you, obviously, because of an emotional conflict situation where they decided to part ways. Have you found out that or have you experienced this? They sit down, they start talking about it, and then all of a sudden realize we can resolve those conflicts. Bill Leininger
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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 – Richmond County, NY My last two mediations involved older couples. One was a husband-nurse couple and a very successful doctor. They had $17 million worth
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media So, in a divorce mediation, can witnesses appear if one side wants, wait a minute, I can prove, you know, I have witnesses that saw this or heard this. Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Richmond County, NY Sure, great question. Only if both parties agree. Ray Hrdlicka
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media You go through the process and obviously you’ve reached an agreement. Will there be any court appearances to finalize the agreement? Do they have to appear in court to finalize that agreement? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Richmond County, NY Great question. In New York, the current
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Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Richmond County, NY The current state of the law is the judge, when they have the preliminary conference, which is the first time, the judge, the case is called in court, in other words, one party served the other one with the summons and complaint for divorce, the
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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media Tell me about the process… what happens when somebody says, “yes let’s use a divorce mediator“. Tell me what you do. Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Richmond County, NY 98% of the time that’s as a result of that free half-hour consultation which is either face-to-face or
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