Marjorie E. Berman

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MBerman@krantzberman.com
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Marjorie Berman is an experienced and talented litigator who represents civil litigants in business disputes, employers and employees in employment conflicts, and individuals in white-collar criminal matters. Ms. Berman has successfully prosecuted, defended and settled scores of cases in a wide variety of industries. In addition to her litigation practice, Ms. Berman provides employment counseling, drafts employment manuals and policies, negotiates severance packages and drafts employment contracts for employers and employees.

Education and Experience

Ms. Berman is a 1983 Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude graduate of Brown University where she was the recipient of the Philo Sherman Bennett Prize in Political Science. Ms. Berman earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1989 where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar. While at Columbia, Ms. Berman founded the Columbia Task Force on Gender Bias, served as the President of the Law Womens' Association and served as an intern in the Law School's Human Rights Program at The Lawyers' Collective in Mumbai, India.

Following her undergraduate education, Ms. Berman was a Personnel Director with a May Department Stores Division in Washington D.C., where she gained practical labor and employment experience.  Also, prior to law school, she served as a grassroots organizer for APCO Associates, then a consulting subsidiary of the law firm of Arnold & Porter, where she developed and organized grassroots movements to support pending federal legislation in the areas of copyright protection and housing and community development.  From 1989-1990, she served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Naomi Reice Buchwald, then a U.S. Magistrate Judge in the Southern District of New York.  Ms. Berman was previously associated with, and then a member of, the firm of Leventhal, Slade & Krantz during the years 1990-1997, where she practiced commercial litigation and employment law. 

Memberships and Activities

Ms. Berman is a Director of the Federal Bar Foundation of the Federal Bar Council and has also been a Member and Master of the Federal Bar Council's Inn of Court, where she has served as a Team Liaison. She also serves as an Editor of the Federal Bar Council Newsletter. She has also been active in education for law students having served as a Moot Court judge and as an Instructor in the Profession of Law Course, Columbia University School of Law. Among her various bar memberships, she is a member of the New York Womens' Bar Association, an organization that her great-aunt helped found in 1922. Ms. Berman lectures on employment law at PLI programs.

Outside of law, Ms. Berman is President of Families with Children from China of Greater New York, a nonprofit organization supporting families who have adopted children from China and children living in orphanages in China. She is active in alumni affairs for Brown University, including serving as an alumnae mentor and alumni interviewer. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Columbia Law School Association.

Bar Admissions

Ms. Berman is admitted to practice in New York (1990), the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York( 1990), the District of Columbia (1991), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit (1994), and the United States Supreme Court (2009).