Alla Roytberg

Alla Roytberg, Esq., is a lawyer, mediator and frequent lecturer with over 30 years of professional experience. Alla was born in Odessa Ukraine grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia, and came to the US as a teenager. Alla is fluent in Russian and English. She graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York City and then New York University. Alla graduated from Fordham University School of Law in 1991. After practicing law at two major law firms, she founded her own law firm in 1996. Currently the firm has locations in Manhattan, Forest Hills Queens, Nassau County and Southampton. 

Alla’s practice focuses on all aspects of family and matrimonial law, including representation, mediation, collaborative divorce and work on prenuptial and marital agreements. Her areas of concentration also include general, business and surrogate court mediation, residential real estate representation and general law practice. She frequently addresses the legal needs of the Russian-speaking Community in New York. Her clients range from individuals and entrepreneurs to privately held small companies. 

Alla is a member and past President of the Family and Divorce Mediation Council of Greater New York, an Advanced Practitioner Member of the Association for Conflict Resolution, a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, of the New York Association of Collaborative Professionals and a member of the New York State Council on Divorce Mediation. She is also a founding member of the Academy of Professional Family Mediators and of the Family Section, the Dispute Resolution Section, and the Real Estate Section of the New York State Bar Association and has been a member of various committees at the New York City Bar Association, including the Alternative Dispute Resolution, Matrimonial, Small Law Firm, and Professional Responsibility Committees, as well as the Task Force on New Lawyers in a Changing Profession. Alla also is a AAA Hurricane Sandy Mediator. 

Alla is admitted to the Bars of the States of New York and New Jersey and to the Supreme Court of the United States. In addition to her private practice, she served as the Director of the Small Law Firm Center at the New York City Bar Association from 2006 to 2016 and is currently involved with the Small Law Firms Committee and its various subcommittees including a subcommittee on response to the COVID pandemic and AI regulation. Additionally, Alla is a member of NADP (National Association of Divorce Professionals), of the New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators and of the Pennsylvania Council of Mediators. She has also earned the designations of Senior Mediator, Certified Mediator and Certified Online Mediator from mediate.com.