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 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 – Richmond County, NY Yeah, and of course, you know, the fairness is in the eye of the beholder, but let me tell […]
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media So, who pays for the cost of a divorce mediation? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Richmond County, NY 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,
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 – Richmond County, NY Well, there’s several different modalities. Some divorce mediators believe in three-to-four-hour sessions. That developed because you
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media You’ve mentioned a couple of costs of that. Is it just based upon hours and that’s how it, it’s not based upon any sliding scale with the assets, it’s just based upon your hourly rate, is that correct? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Richmond County, NY It’s
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media Is a divorce mediation agreement a binding agreement? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Richmond County, NY Yes, a divorce mediation agreement is essentially the exact same document that in a non-mediation case the lawyers would be preparing. In some states we call it a marital settlement agreement,
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media So, it sounds like if it’s uncontested, they hire you as a divorce mediator, they don’t have to appear in court at all. Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Richmond County, NY Yes, generally that’s the case. Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media Wow. So, are those, whatever
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
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media If one of the parties, either spouses, says, I object to you having a lawyer there, then the other person cannot bring a lawyer, is that correct? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Richmond County, NY Mediation, yes, mediation is all about self-empowerment of the spouses, not the
Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Richmond County, NY That’s because mediation has to be confidential, you know, if the couple’s going to think, well, if I say something here it’s going to be thrown up to me in court six months from now at the mediation. Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media So,
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media The invasiveness of a regular divorce kind of explains why divorce mediation might be an option. You know, obviously, does it stay away from all those invasive issues regarding regular divorce? Are those the differences? Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Richmond County, NY Well, I would say
