KAREN HELLER BERDY Law Offices of Karen Heller Berdy Attorney and Mediator Collaborative Law 1331 North California Blvd, Ste 200 Walnut Creek, CA 94596 Phone. 925 937-0440 Fax 925 871-4052 E-mail: karen@dissolawyer.com IACP Profile Karen Heller Berdy practices family law as a sole practitioner in Walnut Creek, CA and in Pleasanton, CA. Ms. Berdy's practice focuses on representing clients in mediation, collaborative law and other settlement oriented dispute resolution processes. Ms. Berdy received her bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University in Cambridge, MA in 1976 and received her JD and her MBA in finance from Columbia University in New York, NY in 1980. Ms. Berdy has been practicing law since 1980 and has handled primarily family law matters since 1994. Prior to 1994, Ms. Berdy was a real estate and corporate transactional attorney, first with Morrison and Foerster in their San Francisco office and then with Feldman, Waldman and Kline in their San Francisco office. Ms. Berdy is a founding board member and treasurer of Collaborative Practice California, is a member of the steering committee of the Collaborative Practice East Bay, is the chairperson of Collaborative Law of Alameda and Contra Costa, is a member of the board of the Eastern Alameda County Bar Association and is a member of the Northern California Public Education Committee (for collaborative practice), the Costa County Family Law Section, the State Bar Family Law Section, and the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals. close window