Taylor Trefger, ’23 (right) won the 2023 Journal of Dispute Resolution/National Academy of Arbitrators Student Writing Competition for her article entitled, “Exempting the FMLA From Forced Arbitration: The Need for Special Consideration of Pregnant and Working Mothers to Achieve Gender Equality in the Workplace.”  Trefger’s article will be published in the Summer 2024 issue.

This fall, the Cardozo Divorce Mediation Clinic celebrated its 13^th anniversary with a “Bar Mitzvah” honoring the clinic director, Professor Robert Collins. Professor Collins has practiced divorce mediation for more than 40 years and is considered one of the pioneers of divorce mediation in New York. He served as a founder and president of the Family and Divorce Mediation Council of Greater New York and as chair of the Ethics Committee of the New York State Council on Divorce Mediation.