MARK K. BASS, ESQ., has been in private practice since 1990. His practice focuses on Collaborative Divorce, Civil Collaborative Practice, Mediation, Tort Litigation, and Business Disputes and Transactions. Before starting his own law practice, Mark was an Assistant Corporation Counsel for the New York City Law Department from 1984-1988, where he was responsible for the defense of the City of New York and its Agencies in tort claims. From 1989-1990, Mark was a trial attorney for the law office of Finkelstein, Levine, Gittelson and Tetenbaum.
Mark is Co-Chair of the Hudson Valley Collaborative Divorce & Dispute Resolution Association (2008-2010 and 2015-to present); a member of the Hudson Valley Collaborative Divorce Training Consortium, Collaborative Divorce Group of Westchester and Putnam Counties, the Dutchess County Collaborative Divorce Group; and Board Member of the New York Civil Collaborative Group. Mark is also a trained mediator, civil and matrimonial collaborative practitioner and a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP).
Mark was a mediator for the Storm Sandy Mediations administered by the American Arbitration Association. Mark is on the panel of mediators of the General Civil Mediation Program in Westchester County Supreme and Civil Courts. Mark is on the panel of mediators with Amicus Mediation & Arbitration Group, mediating personal injury cases.
Mark’s published works include “Creative Strategies for Enrolling the Reluctant Spouse in the Collaborative Process”, IACP Collaborative Review, Volume 9, Issue 5, Spring 2007. He was also a co-presenter at the 2007 IACP Forum on “The Reluctant Spouse: Solving the Problem and Expanding Collaborative Practice”. Mark is a co-author of the “Road Map of the Collaborative Divorce Process and was a co-presenter at the 2011 IACP Forum on “The Road Map of the Collaborative Divorce Process”. Mark was on the faculty for the January 2011 teleconference, “Effective Practice Group Meetings, How to Keep Your Members Coming Back!” sponsored by the IACP. Mark is a co-author of “The Breakup of a Business Doesn’t Need to be Brutal! There is a Better Alternative: Collaborative Law”. Mark was a co-presenter in 2013 on “Streamlining the Collaborative Divorce Process: The Roadmap” sponsored by the Maryland Collaborative Practice Counsel.
Mark graduated from the State University College at Buffalo in 1979 with a B.A. in Political Science; he received his J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 1984; he was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1985 and the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York in 1998.