Emily Susan Jonas

Emily Susan Jonas

2.3
Rating: 6.9

Licensed for 34 years

Mediation Lawyer at White Plains, NY
Practice Areas: Mediation, Family, Divorce & Separation

1 N Broadway Ste 800, White Plains, NY

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Licenses

Licensed in New York for 34 years

State: New York

Acquired: 1991

Currently Registered

No misconduct found

Location

Jonas & Herzog

1 N Broadway Ste 800, White Plains, NY, 10601-2336

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Emily Susan Jonas's Reviews

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2.3 /5.0

3 Client Reviews

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Posted by anonymous | May 28, 2024 | Consulted Attorney

This review is from a potential client who consulted with this attorney.

Family Kind is a last resort

If there is any conflict of interest connected to your case and Family Kind, do not expect them to inform you. Also, do not expect their parent coordinators to stick it out if you have a high conflict situation. Family Kind will take your money but is not dependable for accounting what happens to tha...t money if and when the parent coordinator disappears.

Posted by anonymous | May 22, 2022 | Consulted Attorney

This review is from a potential client who consulted with this attorney.

Associated with Family Kind agency which is a money making machine hiding as 'helping families'

Lawyers like this one associate themselves with agencies like Family Kind, a 'non profit' organization used by the courts that bills itself as 'helping families'. The agency itself may be a NFP, but Family Kind professionals like Ms. Jonas make plenty of money billing clients who in many case are str...ong armed by the courts and their own lawyers to use their various pricey services. Their own marketing materials show them smiling alongside photos of judges and other lawyers in the system, a lucrative cycle of referrals that seems to benefit these players the most, with questionable effectiveness for the families involved. They tell themselves they are 'helping families' who are 'high conflict' but in many cases, they are only enabling post separation abuse, at a high financial cost to protective parents.

Posted by anonymous | April 11, 2018 | Consulted Attorney

This review is from a potential client who consulted with this attorney.

Mediation makes so much sense

I spoke with Emily extensivley and mediation seems like a much better option than a regular divorce. Cheaper, faster and more importantly less emotionally difficult. She has so much experience and clearly cares about helping people get the best outcomes.

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Experience

Rating:  6.9 (Good)

Work Experience

2013 - Present

Owner, Jonas Family Law

2006 - 2007

Associate Director of Public Sector, Pace University School of Law

2003 - 2005

Associate, Bodnar & Milone LLP

2001 - 2003

Pro Bono Coordinator, Legal Services of the Hudson Valley

1999 - 2000

Contested Divorce Clinic Coordinator, New York City Bar Association

1996 - 1996

Extern, The Attorney General’s Office, Boston, MA

1989 - 1993

Assistant Corporation Counsel, Office Of The Corporation Counsel of Brooklyn

1989 - 1993

Attorney, New York City Department of Transportation, Office of Legal Affairs

1988 - 1988

Extern, The United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit

1988 - 1998

Extern, The Appalachian Research and Defense Fund, Charleston, WV

1987 - 1987

Extern, Ayuda, Inc, The Latino Project, Washington, D.C.

Associations

2001 - 2004

Westchester County Bar Association

Member

2001 - 2002

Family and Divorce Mediation Council of Greater New York

Vice President

1995 - 1998

New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

Director

1982 - 1983

Urban Fellows Program

Urban Fellow

Education

1988

Northeastern University School of Law

JD - Juris Doctor

1982

University of Pennsylvania

BA - Bachelor of Arts

Languages

English

Spanish

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