Our special guest today is Norman Solovay, author, long-time litigator, expert in mediation and arbitration and currently, of counsel to Hartman & Craven LLP, NYC. Our subject today is “How Divorce Has Social Consequences for Our Society: The Decline of the Nuclear Family.”

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Norman Solovay, is a former editor of the Columbia Law Review and law secretary to the late Judge Charles Breitel. He served for a number of years as a litigation associate at the firm of Rosenman, Colin, Goldmark & Kaye. Mr. Solovay subsequently formed, and for some 20 years headed, the litigation department of Holtzmann, Wise & Shepard. The Holtzmann firm had an unusual practice for its then size, primarily based on its representation of Allen & Company, the Onassis interests, and a significant number of the corporations financed by Allen & Company, such as Syntex, Ogden, Bunker Ramo, among many others.

Eventually Mr. Solovay founded Solovay, Marshall & Edlin, with his son, Michael Solovay (then a senior associate in Skadden Arps corporate department), and Paul Marshall, a leading entertainment/intellectual property lawyer. While there, Mr. Solovay authored Alternative Dispute Resolution, dealing with both arbitration and mediation and, subsequently, a book entitled The Internet & Alternate Dispute Resolution: Untangling The Web, also dealing with both mediation and arbitration on the internet.  Mr. Solovay is presently a member of the Alternate Dispute Resolution Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City Of New York and is Chairman of its Subcommittee dealing with the expansion of Collaborative Law.