Carrie Anne Cavallo
Founder and Managing Partner
When emotions are running high, Carrie Anne prides herself on being able to restore calm and order for her clients. Many of her clients are business owners with multiple streams of income requiring expertise to competently protect their assets. Client’s appreciate Carrie Anne’s methodical and thorough approach, and value her ability to simplify and explain complex financial situations so they are able to make the most informed decisions possible.
Ms. Cavallo began her legal career successfully prosecuting hundreds of child abuse and neglect cases as an attorney for the City of New York. This trial experience gave Ms. Cavallo an understanding of the complex familial relationships involved in highly sensitive proceedings involving children and their families during difficult times.
Ms. Cavallo practiced matrimonial law as an associate at Caruso, Caruso, & Branda, PC and was a founding partner of the law firm of Schpoont & Cavallo, LLP. In 2020 she founded Cavallo Law, PLLC located in the renowned Woolworth Building in Manhattan.
Tireless advocacy for her clients has established Ms. Cavallo as a respected and sought after litigator in the Supreme & Family courts throughout New York City. Carrie Anne has also argued Appeals in the First and Second Departments. In 2019, Carrie Anne was appointed as a Special Master for the Second Department, Appellate Division.
Carrie Anne served as President of The Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association in 2018-2019, after serving as the Vice President, Treasurer, President-Elect and Director. She is an active member of many other bar associations, including: New York County Lawyers Association; The New York State Bar Association; The Brooklyn Bar Association; New York County Women’s Bar Association; Women in Courts Project, County of Kings; Columbian Lawyers Association, County of Kings; and The Bay Ridge Lawyers Association. Ms. Cavallo has also served on the Judicial Screening Committee for the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York and the Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association.
Carrie Anne Cavallo earned her Juris Doctorate from New York Law School in 1999 and is admitted to practice law in the State of New York, the US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. Since 2013, Ms. Cavallo was listed in The Legal Network as a Top Lawyer in New York. Ms. Cavallo was also elected as a Fellow to the American Bar Foundation in 2013. Since 2014, Ms. Cavallo was selected by her peers to receive the prestigious Super Lawyers honor reserved for the top five percent of New York Lawyers. She has recently received American Registry’s Award for America’s Most Honored Professionals 2017 – Top 5%.
Education:
New York Law School, 1999, J.D.
Memberships:
- New York County Lawyers Bar Association
- New York State Bar Association
- Bay Ridge Lawyers Association
- Brooklyn Bar Association
- Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association
- Catholic Lawyers Guild
- Character and Fitness Committee for the Second, Tenth, Eleventh, and Thirteenth Judicial Districts
- Columbian Lawyers Association
- The American Academy for Certified Financial Litigators
- New York State Society of CPAs
- New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers
- Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York
Alexandra Malamud
Associate
Alexandra Malamud, associate, plays a vital role in our matrimonial practice, contributing to the successful litigation of various family law matters, including divorces, child custody and support disputes, and equitable asset distribution negotiations. Since joining our team, she has demonstrated exceptional dedication and commitment to the needs of each client by creating compelling, detailed, and persuasive supporting motions and affidavits that have been pivotal in achieving clients’ aims during matrimonial and family litigation proceedings.
Alexandra earned her Juris Doctorate from St. John’s University School of Law in 2025 and is admitted to practice law in the State of New York. During her first year in law school, Alexandra interned at Prizant Law, where she drafted affidavits in support of asylum applications and deportation defenses. Her start with immigration law put her on the path towards family law, and during her second year of law school, she worked as a student attorney at the St. John’s University Child Advocacy Clinic. There, Alexandra represented her child and teenage clients in both family and immigration court, in Special Immigrant Juvenile Status proceedings. The following summer, Alexandra interned at the non-profit, Shalom Task Force, where she worked directly with victim-survivors of domestic violence and drafted supporting motions and affidavits in support of high-conflict divorce and child custody disputes. Since joining our team, Alexandra has applied her past experiences working with children and domestic violence victim-survivors to provide compassionate and detail-oriented legal services, both when drafting motion papers and when meeting with our various clients.
Alexandra’s expertise in legal writing and motion drafting is rooted in her undergraduate education—she earned her Bachelor of Arts in English from Long Island University, at the Brooklyn campus, where she was valedictorian of her graduating class. Her writing and drafting proficiency was further reinforced at St. John’s Law School, where she served as a Legal Writing Teaching Assistant, as well as a Writing Center Teaching Fellow, while earning her J.D.
With strategic precision, outstanding organizational skills, and a client-focused mindset, Alexandra provides invaluable support to both the office staff and our clients. Her dedication to quality client services continues to drive the success of our matrimonial and family law practice.