Top Rated Family Law Attorney in New York, NY

Attorney Ailie Silbert is the founder and owner of Ailie L. Silbert Family Law and Mediation in New York, New York a boutique law firm based in New York City since 2012. Licensed to practice in New Jersey as well as New York, Ms. Silbert represents the interests of clients throughout the greater New York City metropolitan region in matters of divorce, separation, family law and prenuptial/postnuptial agreements.

Certified as a mediator by the New York and New Jersey Courts, and having completed several advanced mediation programs, Ms. Silbert has years of experience assisting her clients with resolving their conflicts and reaching favorable agreements in a manner that is far more efficient and economical and less adversarial than traditional divorce litigation.

Throughout her legal career, Ms. Silbert has handled numerous high-asset divorces along with many complex child custody matters outside of court, and she  served as the immediate past President of  the Family & Divorce Mediation Council of Greater New York's, where she also served on the board of directors and continuing education committee. She serves on the New York County and Queens County Court matrimonial mediation panels. She is also active with the New York State Council on Divorce Mediation, and she is a member of the New York City and State Bar Associations as well as The Cornell Club - New York, among her other professional affiliations.

A 1996 cum laude graduate of Cornell University College of Arts & Sciences in 1996, Ms. Silbert attended Seton Hall University School of Law on a dean scholarship and obtained her Juris Doctor in 2002. While there, she completed an internship with the Honorable William G. Bassler of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, and she served as judicial clerk and court mediator to the Honorable Ira E. Kreizman of the Superior Court of New Jersey.

Along with practicing before all New York and New Jersey state courts, Ms. Silbert is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.