Schlissel Ostrow Karabatos, PLLC Matrimonial & Family Law

Jennifer is a member of the firm of Schlissel Ostrow Karabatos, PLLC. She was admitted to the Bar in December 1998. She is a graduate of the State University of New York at Albany (magna cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa) and Brooklyn Law School (magna cum laude). Upon her graduation from Brooklyn Law School, Jennifer was the recipient of the West Publishing Company Award for outstanding Overall Scholastic Achievement and the Judge Nathan R. Sobel Prize.

While at Brooklyn Law School, Jennifer was a member of the Brooklyn Law Review on which she served as an Associate Managing Editor for 1997-1998. Jennifer was a summer associate with Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein, Wolf & Schlissel, P.C. (the matrimonial department of which was a predecessor firm of Schlissel Ostrow Karabatos, PLLC) during the summer of 1997 and continued as a law clerk from September 1997 through the date of her admission to the Bar. Since her admission to the Bar, she has practiced almost exclusively in matrimonial and family law, assisting in the preparation and trial of complex custody and equitable distribution cases.

Prior to joining the firm, Jennifer interned in both the Family Court of New York State, New York County and the Legal Aid Society, Family Law Unit in Brooklyn, New York. She is also acknowledged in the second edition of the two-volume work Separation Agreements and Marital Contracts and credited with contributing to that work. She is a co-author of an article entitled “Prenuptial Agreements for the Golden Years” published in 2002 by the Family Advocate, a journal of the American Bar Association Family Law Section and contributed to the research and drafting of an article entitled “The Hazards of ‘In-Kind’ Distributions of Closely-Held Stock in Divorce Actions” published in the Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers in 2002.

Jennifer has attended the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Institute for Training New Associates Advanced Program and has also attended numerous other Continuing Legal Education courses and seminars in the areas of family and matrimonial law.

Jennifer is a member of the American Bar Association (Family Law Section), the New York State Bar Association, the Nassau County Bar Association, the Nassau County Women’s Bar Association and the New York Family Law American Inn of Court.