Alan D.  Scheinkman is retired from judicial service and is affiliated with NAM as an arbitrator and mediator. During his judicial tenure, he served as the Presiding Justice of the New York State Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department, the busiest appellate court in the country, and as Administrative Judge of the Ninth Judicial District, overseeing court operations in five counties in the Hudson Valley.  He presided over both the Westchester County Commerical Division and the Matrimonial Trial Part.  He is the author of a two-volume treatise on New York Domestic Relations Law and of Practice Commentaries on New York Domestic Relations Law, widely cited as authoritative.  He served as Chair of the State Bar Association’s Task Force on the New York Bar Examination and is a member of the Chief Judge’s Advisory Council for the Commercial Division. He has served as co-chair of the Judicial Task Force on the State Constitution. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association’s House of Delegates and the State Bar’s Committees on Courts of Appellate Jurisdiction, Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, and the State Constitution. From 2008 through 2019, he was a member of the Pattern Jury Instructions Committee – Civil of the New York State Association of Supreme Court Justices, formerly serving as a Reporter for the Committee for many years.  
to election to the Bench, he was in private practice, taught law full-time at St.  John’s University School of Law, and served as the Westchester County Attorney.  He is the author of the New York State Bar Association handbooks on practice in the New York Court of Appeals and in the Appellate Divisions.  He has participated as a speaker and panelist at numerous judicial and bar association programs. He has also taught at Pace University School of Law, and at Rutgers University-Newark School of Law.  He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert (JALBCA) and has been a member of the Board of Visitors of Pace University School of Law.

He is the recipient of awards and recognitions from, among others: the Judicial Section of the New York State Bar Association, the State Bar’s Committee on Courts of Appellate Jurisdiction, the Academy of New York State Trial Lawyers; New York County Lawyers Association, the Suffolk County Bar Association, the Queens County Bar Association, the Westchester County Bar Foundation, the Association of Law Secretaries to the Justices of the Supreme and Surrogate’s Courts, the Rockland County Bar Association, the Roosevelt Chapter of the American Inns of Court, the White Plains Bar Association, the Jewish Lawyers Association of Nassau County, and the Westchester County Black Bar Association.