City College of the City University of New York
Columbia University
City College of the City University of New York
Columbia University
Aviva F. Diamant was born on March 13, 1949, in New York City, to Herman and Anni Diamant. She was raised in the metropolitan New York environment and later developed a legal career centered in Manhattan.
Her family and community connections include her parents, Herman and Anni Diamant, and her marriage to Steven Kaufman. She and Kaufman married on May 31, 1976, and have two children.
Diamant received a Bachelor of Science degree, cum laude, from the City College of the City University of New York in 1969. Founded in 1847 as the Free Academy of the City of New York, City College was established to provide rigorous higher education to students from working-class and immigrant families and later became a flagship institution of the City University of New York.
She earned a Juris Doctor from Columbia University in 1972. Columbia Law School, founded in 1858 as one of the early independent law schools in the United States, developed a longstanding tradition of formal legal education and scholarship. Diamant also received the James Kent Scholar distinction in 1972, connecting her academic record with the law school’s historical association with James Kent, Columbia’s first professor of law.
Diamant was admitted to the New York bar in 1973. The supplied biographical record also identifies admission to a United States Court of Appeals in 1975 and to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1976.
She practiced at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in New York and was identified as a partner of the firm. Her practice has been associated with business law, corporate law, securities law, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and private acquisitions. Fried Frank is a major international law firm whose New York practice has represented clients in significant corporate and transactional matters.
Public transaction documents and firm legal briefings identify Diamant as Fried Frank counsel in matters involving corporate acquisitions, securities filings, private equity, and post-closing litigation issues. These records place her work within the transactional practice of a large New York law firm during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Diamant is identified with Judaism, the religious and cultural tradition of the Jewish people. Jewish life encompasses religious practice, ethical traditions, communal institutions, and a long history shaped by interpretation of the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic law.
Her professional and community connections include New York Jewish organizations and charitable institutions, placing her within the civic and philanthropic life of the city’s Jewish community.
Diamant has been a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, including service on its Committee on Corporations from 1982 to 1985. The association is a major professional organization for lawyers practicing in New York City, while its committees provide forums for legal discussion, professional standards, and public policy work.
She has also been associated with Phi Beta Kappa, an academic honor society founded in 1776 that recognizes achievement in the liberal arts and sciences. A professional profile additionally identifies membership in the American Bar Association, the national organization representing lawyers and the legal profession in the United States.
Diamant is the daughter of Herman Diamant and Anni Diamant. She married Steven Kaufman on May 31, 1976, and they have two children.
Diamant and Kaufman have also appeared together in records of New York Jewish charitable and community organizations, including donor and supporter listings associated with UJA-Federation of New York and other Jewish institutions.
