2026 Arbitration Training Faculty Biographies
This comprehensive program equips participants with the essential skills and knowledge to conduct successful arbitrations under the Uniform Family Law Arbitration Act (UFLAA), and to advocate for its adoption in their state.
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Rochelle B. Grossman ("Shelly"), Certified Mediator, Arbitrator, Parenting Coordinator, Center for Family Resolution
Rochelle B. Grossman
Certified Mediator, Arbitrator, Parenting Coordinator, Center for Family Resolution
Rochelle (“Shelly”) B. Grossman is the founder of the Center for Family Resolution; a firm focused on providing Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) services. She brings over 30 years of combined experience as a family court hearing officer and custody conciliator in Chester County Pennsylvania and as a litigator to her role as an arbitrator, mediator, and parenting coordinator. In addition to serving as a trainer for the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Arbitrator Certification Program, she is a frequent lecturer and author on topics surrounding family law and alternative dispute resolution of family law disputes both locally and nationally. Shelly holds a J.D. from the Temple University School of Law, and thereafter earned a Certificate in Estate Planning from Villanova University School of Law. Shelly received her B.A., cum laude, from Brandeis University in 1988.
Carolyn Moran Zack, Attorney, Momjian Anderer LLC
Carolyn Moran Zack,
Partner, Momjian Anderer LLC
Ms. Zack is a partner with the law firm of Momjian Anderer, LLC, practicing family law in Philadelphia and the surrounding counties. Ms. Zack is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, co-chair of the Pennsylvania Chapter’s Programming Committee, co-chair of the national ADR Committee, and a member of the national Legislation and Test Committees. She serves as the Chair of the Domestic Relations Procedural Rules Committee of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the First Vice Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Family Law Section, and is a past-Chair of the Family Law Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Ms. Zack is an active member of the Philadelphia Bar Association, Montgomery County Bar Association, and Chester County Bar Association Family Law Sections, the Doris Jonas Freed American Inn of Court, and an Interdisciplinary Group of judges, psychologists and lawyers who meet to discuss ways to improve the resolution of custody issues. She is certified as an arbitrator, mediator, and parenting coordinator. Ms. Zack served for eight years (2009-2016) as a Family Court Hearing Officer in Chester County, as well as Chief Law Clerk for the Honorable Berle M. Schiller in the Pennsylvania Superior Court (1998-1999). She received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Douglass College (Rutgers University) in 1984, where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, and her J.D. from Villanova University School of Law in 1987. She is the author of Family Law Arbitration: Practice, Procedure, and Forms (ABA 2020)
John A. Pappalardo, Partner, Pappalardo Law Group, PLLC
John A. Pappalardo,
Partner, Pappalardo Law Group, PLLC
John A. Pappalardo, Esq., Partner, has been an attorney practicing matrimonial law for forty (40) years. He is admitted in the States of New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. He is admitted in the Eastern and Southern Federal Courts of New York State. He is also admitted to practice before the Federal Courts in New Jersey and the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Pappalardo was a partner in the law firm of Farber, Pappalardo and Carbonari from 1995 to 2022 before founding The Pappalardo Law Group PLLC in 2022. Mr. Pappalardo has also been consecutively selected to the New York Metro Super Lawyers list from 2016 through 2025. He has also been nominated by the American Institute of Family Law Attorneys as 10 Best Family Law Attorney for Client Satisfaction for the years 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021. Additionally, Mr. Pappalardo has been consecutively selected as a member of the Nation’s Top One Percent by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel (NADC) from 2017 through 2021. Mr. Pappalardo is a member of the mediation and collaborative law panels in Westchester County. Additionally, he has had a private matrimonial mediation practice and has acted as an attorney for children for thirty-five (35) years. He is an arbitrator and mediator for the American Arbitration Association and the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution. Mr. Pappalardo is a member of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, International Association of Matrimonial Lawyers, the Westchester County Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, and their relevant domestic relations and ADR subsections.