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PARTNERS
 BARRY
BERKMAN was admitted to the New York bar in 1966. He was
admitted to the United States District Court, Southern and
Eastern Districts of New York, in 1968. He received his B.A.
degree from Harvard College and his law degree from Stanford
University. Specializing in matrimonial law and mediation,
he has served on the American Bar Association Task Force on
Standards of Practice for Divorce Mediation and has been a
member of the Matrimonial Committee of the Association of
the Bar of the City of New York. He has served on the Board
of Directors of the Family and Divorce Mediation Council of
Greater New York. He has also been an arbitrator for the Civil
Court in New York County, Small Claims Division, since 1979.
Mr. Berkman has taught matrimonial law as an adjunct Professor
at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and teaches mediation
at The Center for Mediation in Law. He is a co-founder of
the New York Collaborative Law Group. He has made numerous
CLE presentations on behalf of the New York, Westchester,
and Nassau County Bar Associations, as well as the American
Bar Association.
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 WALTER
F. BOTTGER was admitted to the New York bar in 1965.
He was admitted to the United States District Court, Southern
and Eastern Districts of New York, in 1966. He received his
B.A. degree from Harvard College and his law degree from Columbia
Law School. Before specializing in matrimonial law, Mr. Bottger
practiced with Shearman & Sterling and with Reboul, MacMurray,
Hewitt, Maynard & Kristol as a litigator. From the years
of 1972 through 1977, he was with the New York State Special
Prosecutor's Office. He is a member of the Association of
the Bar of the City of New York and the Family Law Section
of the New York State Bar Association. Mr. Bottger has 15
years experience in matrimonial law, and has practiced in
all trial and appellate courts in the New York Metropolitan
Area.
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 JACQUELINE
NEWMAN has been with the firm of Berkman Bottger
& Rodd, LLP, since 1998, specializing in family and matrimonial
law. She was admitted to the New York and the New Jersey bars
in 1999. She received her J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo
School of Law.
Ms. Newman is a member of the Association of the Bar of the
City of New York, the American Bar Association, the New York
State Bar Association, the New York State Women's Bar Association,
the Divorce Mediation Council of New York and the New York
Collaborative Law Group.
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ASSOCIATES
 MEREDITH
B. CAGAN has been with the firm of Berkman Bottger
& Rodd, LLP since 2003. She was admitted to the New Jersey
bar in 2003 and the New York bar in 2004. She received her
B.A. from Tufts University and her J.D. from Brooklyn Law
School. Ms. Cagan is a member of the Association of the Bar
of the City of New York and the New York State Bar Association. |
ELIZABETH A. FOX has been with the firm of Berkman
Bottger & Rodd, LLP since 2006. She received her B.A.
from Boston College and her J.D. from Fordham Law School.
Ms. Fox is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City
of New York and the New York State Bar Association.
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OF COUNSEL
RICHARD A. ABRAMS was admitted to the New
York bar in 1969 and to the United States District Court,
Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, in 1971. He received
his B.A. degree from American University and his law degree
from New York University. Focusing his practice on matrimonial
law throughout his career, Mr. Abrams has been a fellow of
the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers since 1985 and
is a member of the New York Collaborative Law Group. As a
litigator, Mr. Abrams has tried dozens of matrimonial cases
and has argued numerous appeals, both in the Appellate Division
and in the Court of Appeals. He also acts as a mediator in
matrimonial disputes.
FELLOWES M. RODD was admitted to the New
York bar in 1967. He was admitted to the United States District
Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, in 1992.
He received his B.A. from Harvard College and his law degree
from Columbia Law School.
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