CONTACT CAROLE A. PASTERNAK

 Carole A. Pasternak is a partner at Klampe Law Firm and has been with the firm since 1999. Her practice focus is Family Law, a dynamic field dealing with all aspects of divorce, custody, child support, parenting time and domestic abuse.  She is also a Rule 114 qualified neutral providing family mediation services.

Carole was born in 1969 and grew up in an urban area of New Jersey. She experienced a private undergraduate education, attended Rutgers University, and graduated in 1991 with a Bachelors Degree in Psychology. Three years later, she was accepted at Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey and attended full-time, receiving her J.D. in 1997.

Carole was Associate Editor of the Seton Hall University School of Law Constitutional Law Journal and authored “Victims Once Again: The New Jersey Supreme Court’s Unwillingness to Provide all Marital Tort Victims the Right to a Jury Trial”, published in the winter of 1997. She was also  a  research assistant for Professor Jack M. Sabatino, who is now an appellate court judge.

Carole held several intern positions during law school. During the summer of 1995, she worked with the State Division of Mental Health and Guardianship Advocacy dealing with the rights of children in juvenile psychiatric civil commitments. She also clerked for The Honorable Donald W. de Cordova in 1996 as an assistant law clerk dealing exclusively with family law cases. Carole was active in the Center for Social Justice at Seton Hall and represented underprivileged clients in family law matters as a student attorney through a mentorship program. She served as a mediator in the special civil part of the district court dealing with landlord/tenant issues and other conciliation court matters.

After law school, Carole clerked for The Honorable Herbert S. Glickman in the Essex County Family Court from September, 1997 to late May, 1999 when she and her husband, Jeffrey, moved to Rochester, Minnesota, so that he could pursue his medical residency at the Mayo Clinic. Carole and Jeff have two sons with whom they enjoy spending family time. 

Carole provides pro bono legal services to clients of Legal Assistance of Olmsted County and Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services.