With more than 35 years of experience practicing matrimonial law, Elena L. Greenberg, Esq. is a highly regarded litigator and mediator. She is respected for her abilities to navigate and resolve matrimonial matters and understands the sensitive nature and sometimes heart wrenching and overwhelming issues that accompany divorce proceedings. Ms. Greenberg has handled hundreds of matrimonial and family law cases and has successfully achieved resolutions that are customized to best meet the short and long-term needs of the whole family.

Her approach includes helping parties identify, negotiate and collaborate on an agreement that is acceptable to everyone while she focuses on resolving the conflict with care, respect and compassion. Her end goal is to assist the parties to move on financially and legally and believes that dissolving a marriage through the court is not only time consuming and emotionally draining, but costly, and it is better to leave the terms and conditions of the divorce in the hands of the parties rather than a judge.

Ms. Greenberg’s strong advocacy for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) coupled with her training and deep experience handling matrimonial and family law matters makes her well-suited for settling cases in the ADR forum. She is a certified mediator in New York and California, having completed courses at Hofstra University School of Law, Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation. She also received training and completed certification in collaborative law by the New York Association of Collaborative Professionals. She has been a matrimonial fee dispute arbitrator since the 1994 and has served as an adjunct faculty member for Hofstra Law School Trial Advocacy from 1999-2003. In addition to her role as a matrimonial arbitrator and mediator with NAM (National Arbitration and Mediation), she is a partner at one of the top matrimonial law firms on Long Island.

Ms. Greenberg has lectured to the Nassau County Supreme Court Judges and has presented CLE programs to attorneys at the New York State Bar Association and the Nassau County Bar Association. She is a member of the Grievance Committee of the New York State Bar Association, Tenth Judicial District, a founding member and Past President of the New York Family Law American Inns of Court in Nassau County, the Former Chair of the Technology and Practice Management Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association, and a member of the New York State Bar Association, Family Law Section. She has also been a featured columnist on matrimonial law for the New York Law Journal, having authored Applying College Credits in Divorce Cases and How to deal with CSSA COLA Adjustments in Child Support Agreements.

Ms. Greenberg is rated “AV” in the Martindale-Hubbell law directory and has consistently been named a New York “Super Lawyer”. She has also been listed in Pulse Magazine’s Top Legal Eagles – Long Island and named as one of the Top Ten Leaders of Family Law and Women of the Law on Long Island by Digital Press.

Elena L. Greenberg, Esq. is available to arbitrate and mediate matrimonial and family law matters throughout New York State.