Alison Keil, Esq.
Alison Keil Esq. focuses her practice on family and matrimonial law and serves as a powerful advocate for all clients, guiding them through difficult divorces and complex family issues. She has appeared in Supreme and Family Courts in all five boroughs of New York City and Long Island. For well over a decade, she has represented individuals in contested and uncontested matrimonial actions, child-related matters including custody, visitation, relocation and paternity, as well as mediation and collaborative law processes. Alison Keil regularly negotiates prenuptial, postnuptial, settlement and separation agreements, and advises clients regarding pension and retirement plans, stock options, trusts, limited partnerships, closely held corporations, and the valuation of businesses, professional licenses, enhanced earning capacity and celebrity status.
It is the passion and attention to each client that has led Alison Keil to achieve a reputation for devotion and service. Her reputation reflects the sincere personal commitment made to each of client and the unique circumstances of each matter. Alison strives to make all family law issues easier for those undergoing them, and has devoted her legal career to serving individuals in need of legal guidance through challenging times. It is this deep commitment to her clients that enables her to serve them in a more powerful way, fighting to protect their interests as if each client were her own family.
Alison graduated from the University of Michigan. During her studies, she spent one year studying abroad at the Spanish American Institute in Seville, Spain. Thereafter, Alison attended the Cardozo School of Law where she served as an Editor of the Arts and Entertainment Law Journal and worked in the Family Court for the Advocates for Battered Women. Prior to founding Keil & Siegel LLP, Alison practiced exclusively family and matrimonial law as an Associate at Cohen, Goldstein & Silpe LLP and thereafter at Katsky Korins LLP.
In 2022, Alison was certified by the Appellate Division Second Judicial Department to the Nassau County Attorneys for the Children/Assigned Counsel Panel. In this capacity, Attorney Alison Keil zealously represents indigent clients and children in all areas of Family Law, including child abuse and neglect, custody, child support, visitation, family offenses/orders of protection, paternity, guardianship, termination of parental rights and juvenile delinquency.
Amy Saltzman, Of Counsel
Amy Saltzman began practicing family law in 1994 when she founded the legal services program of the Rockland Family Shelter, now called the Center for Safety and Change, a domestic violence social services agency in Rockland County, New York. After working as an associate at the matrimonial boutique law firm of Cohen Goldstein & Silpe, LLP, she founded her own firm in 2003.
Amy received her J.D. from the City University of New York Law School at Queens College in 1988 and her B.A. from the University of Rochester. She also holds a Masters degree in Special Education from Hunter College. She is a former officer of the Women’s Bar Association of New York and currently serves on the Advisory board of the New York Women’s Bar Association. She is a co-chair of the matrimonial committee of the Women’s Bar Association, a member of the legal advisory committee of Sanctuary for Families, and a member of the New York State Bar Association.