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Yuriy Moshes
New York, NY Attorney with 16 years of experience
Free ConsultationForeclosure Defense and Real Estate
Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
Raised in Brooklyn, New York, Yuriy Moshes remained close to his roots as he received a Bachelors of Science degree from Brooklyn College and a Juris Doctor degree from the Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center.
During his years of practice, Yuriy has concentrated in litigation and real estate transactions as his areas of expertise. Through the years, he has successfully helped hundreds of homeowners in New York and New Jersey remain in their homes or, in the alternative, pursue liquidation options.
Yuriy has also assisted clients with all forms of commercial and residential transactional
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Jules Martin Haas
New York, NY Lawyer with 46 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, Estate Planning, Landlord Tenant and Probate
New York University School of Law and New England Law | Boston
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Elise G. Liebowitz
New York, NY Attorney with 40 years of experience
Estate Planning, Probate and Real Estate
Fordham University School of Law
My firm represents clients with all their real estate needs (sales and purchases, commercial leasing and representing co-op and condo boards) and estate planning needs, including wills, health care proxies, probate of wills and administration (the court process after a loved one passes away and the administration of the decedent’s estate).
Elise G. Liebowitz has been practicing law for 36 years, with a wide range of experience, including having practiced at some of New York’s prestigious Wall Street law firms (Proskauer Rose and Stroock & Stroock & Lavan).
Ms. Liebowitz is a native New Yorker, born, raised and educated in...
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Brian L. Ponder
New York, NY Lawyer
Consumer, Entertainment & Sports, Foreclosure Defense and Real Estate
Southern University Law Center
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Ossai Miazad
New York, NY Lawyer with 20 years of experience
Employment
American University Washington College of Law
OSSAI MIAZAD is Partner and Co-Chair of the Discrimination and Retaliation Practice Group and is also active in the firm's Class & Collective Action Practice Group at Outten & Golden LLP in New York. She represents employees in class action and impact litigation aimed at eliminating systemic discrimination. She has experience litigating before federal and state courts and arbitration panels. Ms. Miazad currently serves as plaintiffs' counsel in numerous major class action lawsuits involving challenges to the use of credit and criminal history records for employment decisions, challenges to U.S. citizen and legal permanent resident requirements in contracting on behalf...
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Emily Ingall
New York, NY Attorney with 4 years of experience
Divorce and Family
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Emily Ingall is an attorney in Offit Kurman’s Family Law Practice Group. She represents clients in cases involving divorce, child custody and visitation, child support, alimony, property distribution, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, adoption, and domestic custody disputes. She has focused her practice on all matrimonial matters, providing her services to clients in New Jersey, New York, and Maryland.
Ms. Ingall received her Juris Doctorate from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2020 with a concentration in Family Law. While obtaining her J.D., Emily interned at the Benjamin N. Cardozo Divorce Mediation Clinic. She served as a Research Assistant for Matrimonial...
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Mark Strauss
New York, NY Lawyer with 31 years of experience
Free ConsultationSecurities and Stockbroker Fraud
Fordham University School of Law
A former investigative journalist, Mark is a successful anti-fraud attorney with more than twenty years of experience in complex civil litigation. He has represented qui tam whistleblowers under the False Claims Act as well as victims of fraud under the federal securities laws and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). His efforts have resulted in the recovery of hundreds of millions of dollars for clients.
Prior to founding Mark A. Strauss Law, PLLC, Mark was a partner at Kirby McInerney LLP, a respected plaintiffs’ class action firm that was named one of the “Most Feared Plaintiffs’ Firms” by Law360.com....
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Michael J. Ciarlo
NEW YORK, NY Attorney with 26 years of experience
Free ConsultationAppeals, Business, Estate Planning and Real Estate
Brooklyn Law School and New York University
Named a Super Lawyer for 2023, Michael Ciarlo has been practicing Real Estate law since 1999, providing successful and experienced results for his clients. During this time, his extensive knowledge of commercial, business, and real estate litigation has benefited the clients of the firm. He has a wide range of experience negotiating, analyzing, resolving, and litigating all aspects of real estate, business, co-op, condo, and landlord/tenant matters. Mr. Ciarlo brings a significant depth of understanding to his role in advising large and small businesses, co-ops, condominiums, landlords, tenants, and individuals in their disputes and litigation.
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Adam Moses Orlow
Bronx, NY Attorney with 27 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Nursing Home, Personal Injury and Workers' Comp
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Adam Orlow is a personal injury lawyer and partner at The Orlow Firm. He has been practicing law as a personal injury lawyer since 1998. Adam Orlow has handled personal injury cases of all types including but not limited to construction accidents, car accidents, truck accidents, motorcycle accidents, bicycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, police misconduct, sexual abuse, premises liability including slip and fall accidents, nursing home abuse, lead poisoning and third party workers compensation.
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Lauren Ashley Vizar
Brooklyn, NY Lawyer with 7 years of experience
Immigration
Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
With Vizar Law, PLLC, Lauren Vizar represents noncitizens with the utmost compassion and dedication. Her mission is to improve lives by educating clients on the immigration process and by providing high-quality representation.
Before establishing Vizar Law, PLLC, Lauren Vizar grew her experience in immigration law by working for not-for-profit organizations and a private immigration law firm. Lauren Vizar has completed hundreds of immigrant and nonimmigrant petitions and applications, asylum applications, and immigration appeals, while also fiercely representing noncitizens in removal proceedings.
She provides remote legal services across the United States and in-person legal services in the New York Tri-State area.
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Philip Russotti
New York, NY Attorney with 51 years of experience
Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Products Liability and Workers' Comp
St. John's University School of Law
Philip Russoti at Wingate, Russotti, Shapiro, Moses & Halperin, LLP oversees every case in their firm. It is important for him to be involved in every case and to give clients his utmost attention and effort.
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Justin M. Swartz
New York, NY Lawyer with 27 years of experience
Employment
DePaul College of Law
JUSTIN M. SWARTZ, a partner at Outten & Golden LLP in New York and Co-Chair of its Class Action Practice Group, represents employees in class action wage/hour and discrimination cases, as well as individual discrimination cases and other employment matters. He is also Co-Chair of the firm’s Public Interest Committee.
Mr. Swartz is currently litigating cases challenging the practice of classifying workers as independent contractors and failing to pay overtime compensation. He and Outten & Golden LLP's Public Interest Committee have represented hundreds of low-wage workers in minimum wage and unpaid overtime cases, including construction workers, farm workers, and low-wage cleaning...
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Elsa Ayoub
New York, NY Attorney with 21 years of experience
Immigration
American University Washington College of Law
Elsa Ayoub, Esq. has extensive experience representing multinational corporations and individuals with respect to the best short and long-term visa strategies for their specific needs in a wide range of industries, including media, financial services, advertising, education, entertainment, banking, consumer products, health care services and health care management services. She represents corporate clients and their foreign national employees in all phases of the immigration process, as well as in the transfer of their foreign national executives, managers, and key employees to the United States. Elsa also counsels individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary ability in their field of endeavor and who...
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David Michael Gottfried
NY, NY Lawyer with 14 years of experience
Free ConsultationImmigration
State University of New York - Buffalo
Partner
David is a graduate of the State University of New York at Farmingdale and obtained his law degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School. He studied immigration in law school and was a two time participant in the immigration clinic. He also worked for a summer at the largest immigration firm in the country. Before joining Gottfried & Gottfried, LLP, David worked for a small personal injury firm on Long Island as a trial attorney. He is admitted to practice in the State of New York.
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Mariya Ortynska
New York, NY Attorney
250 Park Avenue
7th Floor, Office 7106
New York, NY 10177
Free ConsultationIP and Trademarks
University of New Hampshire School of Law
Mariya Ortynska is a trademark and copyright attorney and Managing Attorney at Ortynska Law PLLC. She offers legal guidance on matters involving intellectual property and emerging technologies.
Mariya's core services are developing strategies for brand protection and enforcement in the U.S. and internationallym managing trademark and copyright registrations with the USPTO and the USCO, drafting and negotiating IP-related contracts, addressing online enforcement and domain name disputes and advising on legal aspects of emerging technologies, including AI and blockchain.
Mariya has substantial experience with Madrid Protocol filings and in safeguarding brand portfolios on a global scale. She has assisted clients in securing trademark...
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Glen Alan Kendall
New York, NY Attorney with 14 years of experience
Business, Employment, Estate Planning and IP
Brooklyn Law School
Glen A. Kendall has an exceptional track record representing small and medium-sized businesses and individuals in complex, high stakes litigation and arbitration across the New York area.
He regularly serves as lead counsel in business and employment matters involving breach of contract, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, employment discrimination, restrictive covenants, defamation, trade secret misappropriation, and copyright and trademark infringement. Mr. Kendall also handles trusts and estates matters involving probate, will contests, contested accountings, and fiduciary removal proceedings. Clients entrust Mr. Kendall because of his compassion, zealous advocacy, and creativity in problem-solving.
A significant portion of Mr. Kendall’s practice involves...
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Arthur Larkin
New York, NY Attorney with 35 years of experience
Free ConsultationNew York University School of Law
Arthur Larkin is a civil rights litigator with nearly thirty years’ experience in the state and federal courts, and over the past twenty years he had handled some of the highest profile wrongful conviction and class action lawsuits in New York City. He has negotiated settlements worth over $75 million in those lawsuits as well as numerous other lawsuits.
With fifteen years’ experience defending the City in such matters, Arthur knows how best to present a winning case at trial and/or during settlement discussions.
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Jennifer Harrington
New York, NY Attorney with 8 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness
Washington & Lee University
My passion is family law. It is what drove me to become a lawyer, motivated me through law school, and gets me excited to start my day. Family law has always been a part of my life, in experience, study, and practice. A childhood spent in and out of domestic court piqued my interest in the different elements of such a complex and human-driven area of the law. My goal is to make every client feel heard in a situation where communication may have broken down. I will vigorously advocate for all of my clients, because I am...
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Rachel L Shkolnik
New York, NY Lawyer
St. Thomas University School of Law
Ms. Shkolnik is an associate with the firm’s Product Liability, Pharmaceutical Department. Prior to joining the Pharmaceutical Department, she focused on premise liability, products liability, labor law, intentional torts as well as civil suits involving victims of sexual assault and/or battery.
Rachel focuses on premise liability, products liability, labor law, intentional torts as well as civil suits involving victims of sexual assault and/or battery.
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Laurence S. Moy
New York, NY Attorney with 39 years of experience
Employment
Cornell University
LAURENCE S. MOY is Deputy Managing Partner, and has been practicing law almost exclusively in the area of representing individuals in employment matters since 1985. Mr. Moy co-chairs the firm’s Financial Services Industry Practice Group. He enjoys representing clients and groups of clients in these highly specialized fields by counseling them, as well as negotiating and litigating on their behalf.
Mr. Moy has extensive experience in arbitration before FINRA (and, previously, the NASD and the NYSE), the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”), and JAMS, as well as trials, appeals, and other litigation experience before federal and state courts concerning employment and...
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Howard B. Leopold
New York, NY Attorney with 34 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, Divorce, Family and Personal Injury
Albany Law School
Howard B. Leopold is Brooklyn born and a member of the New Jersey, New York, and Bergen County Bar Associations. He graduated from the State University of New York at Albany in 1987 (Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude) with a B.A. in U.S. History and Minors in Hebrew and Business. Mr. Leopold went on to attend Albany Law School and earned a J.D. in 1990. After graduating, he worked as an associate in the litigation department of a New York City law firm for numerous years and then spent four years at a law firm in Rochelle Park,...
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Robert Gitelman
New York, NY Attorney with 20 years of experience
Robert Gitelman is a partner in the firm’s Products Liability and Asbestos Department, based in our New York City Office. Mr. Gitelman was an integral part of the Environmental team that helped obtain a $52 million settlement for contamination of municipal water suppliers with MTBE by petroleum refiners and retailers. Mr. Gitelman also worked on the In Re: World Trade Center Disaster Site Litigation, which resulted in more than $850 million dollars in settlements of injuries sustained by rescue and recovery workers at Ground Zero from toxic contaminant exposures.
Prior becoming an attorney, Mr. Gitelman worked in various capacities in the...
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Jeffrey Fox
Syosset, NY Lawyer with 20 years of experience
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Personal Injury and Traffic Tickets
Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University
We look forward to assisting clients in all types of civil and criminal litigation. The office handles all types of accident cases. Mr. Fox is also an experienced criminal defense attorney. Our office also can assist in real estate closings and small business matters.
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Laurence Michael Deutsch
New York, NY Lawyer with 37 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice
The University of Chicago Law School
Laurence Deutsch has a proven record of success in medical malpractice trials for over 20 years. He has achieved some of the leading verdicts in counties throughout New York State.
Mr. Deutsch has been included in the Verdicts and Settlements Hall of Fame by the New York Law Journal.
Mr. Deutsch carries the highest attorney rating (“10.0”) from the Avvo rating service. He has been awarded “Super Lawyer” designation by the Thompson Reuters rating agency. Mr. Deutsch has also obtained the highest rating of “Preeminent” from the Martindale-Hubbell rating agency.
Mr. Deutsch is the author of leading publications on trial practice and...
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Jon Michael Probstein
Levittown, NY Attorney with 48 years of experience
Arbitration & Mediation, Consumer, Divorce and Real Estate
St. John's University School of Law
Since 1977, my practice has consisted of representing and assisting people and businesses in all matters, including public and private corporations.
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Ted Little
Astoria, NY Lawyer with 3 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness and Tax
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ted advises small business owners, entrepreneurs, freelancers, and even other corporate attorneys on the intricacies of commercial tax law, from the time of a business’s formation through to investment exit. Ted has significant experience working with clients across a wide range of scales and industries to effectively achieve their tax structuring aims, including structuring tax-free corporate mergers and cross-border transactions.
Early in an investment’s lifecycle, Ted can help you choose (and form) the ideal entity for your venture’s long-term success, balancing tax and administrative costs. And when the time comes to bring in new investors, to sell a portion of your...
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Jeanne M. Reardon
Syosset, NY Attorney with 31 years of experience
Business and Real Estate
Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
Jeanne M. Reardon concentrates her practice in real estate law representing individuals, businesses, mortgage bankers and lenders in residential and commercial real estate purchase, sale, leasing and lending transactions. Ms. Reardon has over 25 years of legal experience and has built a reputation of excellence, trust and successfully delivering results. Ms. Reardon is the principal attorney at the Law Offices of Jeanne M. Reardon, a Jericho, NY based firm that serves clients throughout Long Island and Greater New York. At her firm, clients deal directly with an attorney receiving the kind of personal attention that can...
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Damien Matthew Bosco
Long Island City, NY Lawyer with 24 years of experience
(929) 416-1864
31-00 47th Avenue
Suite 3100
Long Island City, NY 11101
Appeals, Business, Estate Planning and Probate
Brooklyn Law School
Hello! And welcome to my short biography.
My legal background is in Business Law, Commercial Litigation, Wills, Trusts & Probate. I handle business formations and contracts. I handle business disputes and real estate disputes including construction issues. I have represented clients in both state and federal court and handled appeals. I have represented clients in arbitrations and mediation. I am a designated arbitrator for FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Agency).
I worked at the Pentagon for the Department of Army early in my career.
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Christopher Paul Bilski
Bronx, NY Lawyer with 28 years of experience
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Probate and Real Estate
New York Law School and New York Law School
Practice Areas: Foreclosure Defense, Loan Modifications and Short Sales, Residential Real Estate Transactions, Surrogate’s Court, Probate, Wills, Commercial Litigation, Corporate and Business Law
Admitted: 1997, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
Law School: New York Law School, J.D. ; Member- Law Review;
Recipient of New York Law School Academic Achievement Award and Teaching Fellowship; Top 1% of class of 1996.
Biography: Former senior associate, litigation and corporate departments of a large international law firm with offices in Manhattan, London, Los Angeles, Bucharest, Washington D.C., Baltimore and Connecticut.
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Oliver Minott
Bronx, NY Lawyer with 29 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Social Security Disability and Workers' Comp
Western New England University School of Law
The Law Offices of Oliver C. Minott specializes in Workers Compensation and Social Security Disability Law. Our Highly experience attorneys represent clients in New York and New Jersey with over 35 years of combine experience. We guide clients through their Workers Compensation and Social Security Disability cases from the beginning to the end. Our attorneys will represent you at your Workers Compensation and Social Security hearings.Call the firm at 1-866-683-4200 for a free consultation.
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Victor Armando Bernace
Bronx, NY Attorney with 30 years of experience
Free ConsultationTraffic Tickets
Harvard University
Harvard Lawyer representing motorists daily at the Bronx Traffic Violations Bureau for over 17 years.
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David Edward Robbins
New York, NY Lawyer with 50 years of experience
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation and Securities
Villanova University School of Law
Mr. Robbins is a partner in the New York City law firm of Kaufmann Gildin & Robbins LLP and specializes in commercial arbitration and mediation. He represents investors, brokers and firms in disputes and brokers and firms before regulatory agencies. He is also an expert witness in malpractice cases arising out of securities arbitrations. He and his firm have been responsible for the return of tens of millions of dollars to investors and have represented many brokers accused of wrongdoing in arbitrations and regulatory matters. Mr. Robbins served as Special Deputy Attorney General...
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John Laurence
New York, NY Lawyer
Free ConsultationIP, Patents and Trademarks
Fordham University School of Law and New York Law School
John C. Laurence received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University and his J.D. from New York Law School. He also received his LLM for Intellectual Property and Information Law Technology Law. He is a member of the New York State Bar, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (Patent Bar), and the District Court of the Southern District of New York.
John has experience in many facets of intellectual property law, including preparing, prosecuting, and enforcing trademarks, patents, and copyrights. John has helped individuals and businesses identify, develop, and enforce their intellectual property rights. John has drafted and prosecuted patent...
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Robert J. Greenstein
NEW YORK, NY Lawyer with 31 years of experience
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury
New York Law School
Robert J. Greenstein is a lawyer with years of experience in the New York City court system. He has been admitted to practice in both New York and New Jersey, giving him a wide range of knowledge in both court systems. Since 1994, Robert Greenstein has practiced personal injury law, protecting clients from harmful insurance claim tactics, at-fault parties that don’t want to pay, and other groups.
After receiving his J.D. from New York Law School in 1993, Robert Greenstein went on to practice law to the present day. Robert Greenstein isn’t just well-versed in the courtroom and classroom, either....
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Joseph Macaluso
Bronx, NY Lawyer with 34 years of experience
Free ConsultationAsbestos, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
Brooklyn Law School
Joseph G. Macaluso is a graduate of Brooklyn Law School. He has been in the private practice of law in the fields of personal injury and medical malpractice since 1990. Upon graduation from Law School, he was recognized as Best Trial Advocate of his graduating class. He was also recognized as an Overall Best Trial Advocate of a National Trial Advocacy competition. Since then, Macaluso has practiced as an injury lawyer who has successfully litigated many cases. He has handled a wide variety of injury and medical malpractice over the years. The cases...
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David Lacher
New Rochelle, NY Attorney with 47 years of experience
Business, International and Real Estate
Syracuse University
Consummate legal professional bringing creative solutions to the legal challenges of modern times for clients in the areas of Wills, trusts, estate planning and estate administration; real estate (commercial and residential); land use and economic development; and the needs of business owners including LLC and other new business formations, purchases and sales of businesses, and contract reviews of every type.
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Michael W. Gunzburg
New York, NY Attorney with 38 years of experience
Personal Injury
Brooklyn Law School
MICHAEL GUNZBURG has 30 years of extensive civil litigation experience as a New York City personal injury and medical malpractice attorney. He has also represented a variety of business clients in civil litigation, business transaction and real estate matters. Many business people sometimes find themselves in disputes that require experienced trial counsel to handle and resolve. Michael Gunzburg has extensive experience resolving civil disputes, involving personal injury, medical malpractice and business matters at arbitration, mediation or before a jury at trial.
Michael Gunzburg graduated from Boston University with a B.S.B.A. in 1982 concentrating in business management and accounting, and graduated from...
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Valerie S. Wolfman
New York, NY Lawyer with 36 years of experience
Divorce, Family, International and Probate
Yeshiva University
For the past 30 years Valerie Wolfman Esq. has concentrated her law practice on Family, Matrimonial and Divorce Law, Child Custody, Divorce and Equitable Distribution (both simple and complex). Many of her cases have International components, including issues such as whether a French or Chilean or Swiss pre-nuptial agreement is valid; whether a divorce should proceed in France, New York or Australia, whether the mother may relocate the residence of the child away from the father. She has also litigated Will contests and has proven heirship with the aid of a genealogist and has been a guardian in guardianship...
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Stefan Stoyanov
New York, NY Attorney with 21 years of experience
Free ConsultationCornell Law School
I am a former engineer and programmer turned lawyer helping clients in all aspects of intellectual property, technology & business law. Over the past 13 years I have represented and counseled clients in numerous patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret matters, including litigation, licensing, protecting technologies through patents, trademarks, copyrights and other methods, assessing risks for new product launches, assessing the strengths of IP portfolios, devising licensing strategies, helping with mergers and acquisitions, and many other.
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Craig Warren Phemister
New York, NY Lawyer with 27 years of experience
Civil Rights, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
Creighton University School of Law
Mr. Phemister has been practicing law in New York since 1998. Since then, he has been fortunate enough to have handled several thousand cases and taken well over a hundred verdicts at trial.
Initially, his practice focused on personal injury but over the years, he began working on cases where people were claiming they were assaulted by the police, or wrongfully arrested and held against their will.
As time went on, Craig began seeing more and more of these cases until he had the eye-opening experience of seeing a judge in New York declare that a man who spent nearly 18 years...