Lara Traum is a partner at Roytberg Traum Law and Mediation, P.C., where she focuses her practice on family and matrimonial dispute resolution. She serves clients as a collaborative attorney, mediator, and parenting coordinator, assisting individuals and families navigating prenuptial, family, matrimonial, and trust and estate disputes. Lara is also the founder of PeaceChord LLC, which provides mediation and collaborative law training, as well as facilitation and conflict resolution services for nonprofit organizations and communities.

At Cardozo, Lara teaches Collaborative Law. Her teaching draws upon extensive experience working with families across a broad spectrum of conflict, including through collaborative law, mediation, and parenting coordination. She is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut and serves as a mediator nationally and internationally, with particular experience assisting international and cross-cultural families in family and matrimonial matters. She also provides conflict resolution training to professionals throughout North America in both the public and private sectors.

Lara is the Immediate Past President of the New York State Council on Divorce Mediation and serves in leadership roles with a number of national and international organizations. She is a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, Mediators Beyond Borders International, and the Long Island Collaborative Divorce Professionals. She was named a Super Lawyers Rising Star in Family and Matrimonial Law from 2021 through 2026 and is the recipient of the New York State Council on Divorce Mediation's 2026 Chuck Newman Council Champion Award.

Lara serves on mediation panels throughout New York City, is a Family and Matrimonial Mediation Panel Member with the American Arbitration Association, and provides sliding-scale subsidized services through FamilyKind.

A published author and speaker, Lara co-authored the books Family Lawyer as Peacemaker (ABA, 2026) with Forrest S. Mosten and Effectively Representing Clients in Family Mediation (ABA, 2023) with Forrest S. Mosten and Hon. Elizabeth Potter Scully. Her scholarship on mediation and collaborative practice has appeared in numerous publications, including Family Court Review, the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution, and ABA Family Advocate. She has also contributed chapters to Building a Successful Collaborative Practice (ABA, 2018) and Family Conflict in a Pandemic: Stories of Struggle and Hope (2021).

Lara is a graduate of Cardozo, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution and won competitions as a member of the ADR Competition Honors Society. She earned her B.A. from New York University. Before entering the legal profession, Lara worked as a conductor, singer, and music educator. She continues to draw upon those experiences in her work as a facilitator, teacher, and conflict resolution professional.