Barry Kaufman's primary focus is family law, but his firm, Schiffman, Berger, Abraham, Kaufman & Ritter, P.C., provides services in a variety of legal disciplines, including corporate and commercial law, real estate development and transactions, environmental law, professional malpractice, franchise law, estates and trusts and employment discrimination. Kaufman became interested in matrimonial law while serving as a clerk for Passaic Superior Court Judge Harold Nitto in 1980-81. "It was a time when the equitable distribution statute was beginning to evolve," Kaufman says. The experience taught him not only the complexities of the law, but also the importance - and satisfaction -- of helping people at critical times of their lives.