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Elaine S. Rosenblum, Esq.
 
'Thank you for the excellent presentation. I have been to lots of training sessions before, and I was just flat out impressed with the amazing quality of your work.'
— A Charleston, South Carolina Newspaper Editor

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'Elaine is my secret weapon! Her executive coaching program has proved invaluable to the building of my Hedge Fund. Elaine helped me define and establish the Fund's unique brand proposition based on our core investment philosophy. She also coached me in the communication of those ideas so that I could pitch my fund to potential investors in a way that expressed my passion for my work and also the unique strategic approach we employ to make money for our clients. I simply could not have done this without Elaine's coaching. Client response has been overwhelmingly positive.'
— Abraham Bronchtein, CEO AJB Capital Management

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'I very much enjoyed your talk at the WAVE breakfast this morning. You are a truly gifted speaker! I rarely leave seminars feeling as though I took away something valuable, but there is no question that our time this morning was well spent.'
— C. Lattanzio, Esq., attorney and Women's Association of Venture and Equity member.

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'Thanks again for speaking. You were great! We have received a lot of very positive feedback.'
— Susan Keller, Esq., Law Firm Partner and Founding Member of Women's Association of Venture and Equity
Elaine Rosenblum is an employment attorney, mediator, consultant, trainer, teacher and corporate marketing veteran with extensive experience working with large corporate organizations.

A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Elaine is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin, where she earned a B.S. in Advertising, and Cardozo School of Law in New York City; she also completed Harvard Law School's Advanced Negotiation Training for Lawyers. Elaine is a member of the New York bar and is currently admitted to practice law in New York State.

At Cardozo, Elaine was one of 12 students selected from among 150 applicants to participate in the prestigious Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution. U.S. News and World Report consistently ranks Cardozo among the nation's top 10 law schools for Dispute Resolution. The Kukin Program included an intensive year of study and skill building in conflict management, mediation, negotiation and arbitration. Elaine studied under the tutelage of Lela P. Love, one of the country's preeminent legal scholars on mediation and alternative dispute resolution.

During her year in the Kukin Program, Elaine was certified as a New York State Mediator and conducted over 25 mediations at the Manhattan Mediation Center. This center is a New York State Court referred program for civil cases in which parties have the option of attending mediation prior to proceeding to court. Elaine continues to mediate at the Manhattan Mediation Center and, to date, has mediated over 100 cases. A large majority of Elaine's cases end in agreement.

Elaine also won several American Bar Association (ABA) sponsored negotiation competitions and has been called upon to judge subsequent ABA negotiation and mediation competitions. She has been asked to sit on panels, including Building Better Corporate Boards: Better Decision Making Through Collaboration and How Innovative Communication Strategies Can Help Make Better Board Decisions, at the National ABA Conferences on Alternative Dispute Resolution. Elaine has written legal articles on the applications of mediation in the corporate environment and on mediation theory.

While in law school, Elaine also enjoyed a keen interest in employment law. Elaine assisted the Special Master in the $10 million class action settlement of EEOC v. Astra USA, Inc. She also clerked in the Office of Sexual Harassment Investigation at the New York State Division of Human Rights. Elaine has attended several seminars on using mediation to resolve sexual harassment claims in the corporate environment and has written legal articles on the subject.

Prior to and during law school, Elaine spent 13 years working in client services for several New York City-based advertising agencies and in consumer marketing on the corporate side. Elaine has experience in general and direct advertising, as well as brand integration, across promotional, ethnic, web, event, PR and collateral disciplines. During her corporate tenure, she was most noted for her ability to raise the client relationship management bar to superior levels while working at Saatchi & Saatchi, McCann-Erickson, J. Walter Thompson, Rapp Collins Worldwide and Time, Inc. Her client roster included Nestle Beverage Company, Nabisco Biscuit Division, Delta, Northwest, Lufthansa and Braniff Airlines, Mercedes-Benz USA, Bank One/First USA, Cunard Cruise Lines, Hotels and Resorts, The Discovery Channel, and Entertainment Weekly, Fortune, Life, Money, People, Sports Illustrated and Time magazines.

Most recently, Elaine has combined her corporate and legal skills to realize her vision that mediation and collaborative negotiation techniques can play a significant role in building strategic partnerships both with outside clients and within large organizations. To this end, Elaine launched her consulting practice, Courageous Conversation: A Tool for Building and Managing Long-Term Strategic Partnerships.

Elaine teaches a post-graduate Collaborative Negotiation class as part of the NYU Center for Finance, Law and Taxation's Conflict and Dispute Resolution Program, as well as undergraduate Business Law and post-graduate Collaborative Negotiation classes at Baruch College. She also oversaw the Leadership in Law Program at Columbia University.