Efrat Engel, Law Office and Mediation

Efrat Engel, Law Office and Mediation is a unique, veteran, and renowned boutique law firm that specializes in family law. The firm provides clients with comprehensive legal services, including consultation, mediation, and dispute resolution in the field of family law, claims under the Sexual Harassment Prevention Law, conducting negotiations, during dispute resolution procedures, drafting agreements in the field of family law, drafting lasting powers of attorney, as well as mediation and legal support for members of the LGBTQ community, and preparing applications for judicial parenting orders.

Efrat Engel, Adv. and Mediator – the firm’s founder, holds an LL.B. and an LL.M. specializing in mediation and negotiation. Certified as a lawyer in 2,000, Adv. Engel is a veteran and experienced attorney, who has been practicing family laws for the past 25 years. She holds vast and unique family law experience, which she gained during her years of working in the courts and in the private sector.
Established almost two decades ago by Adv. Engel, her firm exclusively and uniquely handles the field of mediation for many years. Adv. Engel, who is known for her expertise in the mediation field, also teaches mediation and lectures on alternative proceedings. Furthermore, she is a part of the LGBTQ Association’s Mediation Center, in this framework she provides legal services for members of the community, lectures, and teaches.
The firm’s uniqueness stems from Adv. Engel’s exclusive mediation expertise and the fact she doesn’t represent in court. Thus, her clients and their families can rest assured that she considers their best interests at heart and nothing else, throughout the process. This unique added value, which benefits the firm’s clients, enables Adv. Engel to present her best personal and professional capabilities to achieve the best results and agreements suited to the needs of each client and their families.

The firm’s clients include lawyers, judges, military officials and security personnel, businesspeople, high-tech industry personnel, and private individuals.

Personal and Professional Motto

Adv. Engel handles family law and mediation from a sense of calling and mission. She believes that the best way to resolve a conflict in general, and especially in the field of family laws, is by creating a dialogue and a bridge that enables all parties involved to have a personal and emotional solution. This is the way she handles all her cases.

Areas of Expertise

Legal Consultation in the Field of Family Law

Efrat Engel, Law Office and Mediation provides legal services in the family law field, based on the latest rulings and legislations issued by the Family and Rabbinical Courts, while considering the client’s best interest each step of the way.

Conducting Negotiations

Efrat Engel, Law Office and Mediation consults and assists clients during negotiations for the purpose of formulating agreements, including in dispute resolution proceedings in the courts and tribunals, for the purpose of formulating divorce agreements between spouses, for the purpose of drafting financial agreements, agreements for cohabitation, and joint parenting agreements, resolving disputes between siblings and between parents of children, and in any matter in which it’s necessary to resolve a marital or family dispute. Adv. Engel considers peacemaking and peaceful dispute resolution between family members her most important goals, and, therefore, considers all sides involved, while providing fair and appropriate solutions.

Mediation, Formulation, and Drafting of Agreements

Adv. Engel specializes in peaceful dispute resolution. She assists in formulating agreements and providing optimal solutions, tailored to her clients’ needs. For these reasons, Adv. Engel gets to know her clients and pays close attention to their needs. Additionally, Adv. Engel specializes in drafting unique and complex legal agreements in the field of family law, including prenuptial agreements, financial agreements, divorce agreements, domestic peace agreements, cohabitation agreements, joint parenting agreements, and any other agreement that is a result of the mediation processes she manages. Adv. Engel is listed in the Family and Rabbinical Courts List of Mediators in accordance with the Law for the Settlement of Litigation in Family Disputes.

LGBTQ Community

Efrat Engel, Law Office and Mediation consults, negotiates, drafts lasting powers of attorney, mediates, resolves disputes, formulates, and conducts agreements for member of the LGBTQ community. Including but not limited to, cohabitation agreements, joint parenting agreements, divorce agreements, and preparing court-ordered parenting orders. Adv. Engel is part of the LGBTQ Association’s Mediation Center establishers, she teaches mediation specializing in this community, lectures, and provides legal knowledge and information to members of the community.

Collaborative Divorce

Adv. Engel was certified as a Collaborative Divorce System mediator in 2011. She is one of Adler Institute’s Collaborative Divorce Department founders, and one of “Agreements” (“Haskamot”) founders, the national family dispute resolution center.

Lasting Power of Attorney

Adv. Engel is certified to draft lasting power of attorney documents and documents expressing wishes according to the Legal Capacity and Guardianship laws.