Canade & Reilly Family and Divorce Mediation, LLP

Specialties

Canadé & Reilly Family and Divorce Mediation, LLP, with offices in Downtown Brooklyn and the Upper East Side of Manhattan, is dedicated exclusively to family and divorce mediation.

Between them, founding partners and attorneys David Reilly and Catherine Canadé have more than 30 years of legal and conflict resolution experience. David and Catherine assist their clients in achieving optimal resolutions that best address the interests of all involved. They firmly believe that mediation, where the parties shape and determine the results, is the process most well-​suited to this goal.

We focus on:

Divorce

Custody and Visitation/​Parenting Plans

Marital/​Couples Conflicts

Family Conflicts, including LGBT issues (such as coming out and bullying), Adoption and Inheritance/​Estate disputes

Pre/​Post Nuptial, Cohabitation and Parenting Partnership Agreements

We firmly believe that mediation, where the parties shape and determine the results, is a far more effective method of resolving conflict than the court system, and produces superior results. It allows you to take ownership of a conflict and personally shape its resolution to best serve the interests of you and your family.

We provide the tools needed for you to forge a sustainable, mutually beneficial arrangement that promotes understanding and preserves critical relationships. In mediation, we facilitate direct and effective communication between our clients so that they may develop a solution that safeguards everyone’s best in

Meet the Business Owner

David R.

Business Owner

David is a trained divorce mediator having completed both his certification training as well as a sixty-​hour practicum through the Center for Mediation and Training in New York. Before becoming a full-​time neutral functioning as a mediator in divorce and other matters, as well as an arbitrator, David practiced for nearly twenty-​five years as a litigator and labor and employment attorney both in private practice with Cahill, Gordon & Reindel and later Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, as well as an in-​house counsel for a Fortune 100 healthcare company.

David’s litigation experience has provided him with a keen understanding of the value and advantages of mediation in achieving the optimum outcome for the parties, particularly in family/​divorce matters. Further, through his involvement in hundreds of negotiations, he is adept at facilitating transition from positional bargaining to an interest-​based approach, which affords the parties the greatest opportunity for achieving superior results.