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David Lawrence Levinson
CENTRAL VALLEY, NY Attorney with 55 years of experience
(845) 928-9444
5 CORPORATE DRIVE, SUITES 202204
P.O. BOX 244
CENTRAL VALLEY, NY 10917
Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Divorce and Family
Brooklyn Law School
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Gregory Marc Sobo
CHESTER, NY Attorney with 25 years of experience
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury
Syracuse University College of Law
Greg Sobo is a seasoned Managing Attorney with a proven track record in the legal practice industry. With more than 20 years of dedicated experience in the field of personal injury law, he has personally managed a diverse array of personal injury cases, gaining expertise in a wide range of injuries resulting from accidents. Throughout his career, Greg has successfully negotiated numerous settlements, participated in multiple mediations and arbitrations, and litigated a substantial number of cases that resulted in jury verdicts awarding significant sums in favor of our clients.
Greg handles a variety of personal injury cases including, but not limited...
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Mr. Glenn W. Magnell
Cornwall, NY Lawyer with 19 years of experience
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Divorce and Traffic Tickets
Rutgers School of Law-Newark
Most people never imagine that they will be arrested and charged with a crime and assume that anyone who is arrested must be a criminal. The truth is that anyone can be arrested. A mistaken identification, a misunderstanding or dispute with the police or another party, even simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time can lead to being taken into custody by the police and charged with an offense. Being arrested can be one of the scariest moments in anyone's life. Suddenly your liberty is taken away and you may face the prospect...
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Michael Diederich Jr.
Stony Point, NY Attorney with 44 years of experience
Free ConsultationAdministrative, Appeals, Civil Rights and Employment
Lewis & Clark Law School and Elisabeth Haub School of Law - Pace University
The Diederich Law Office focuses on helping victims of illegality and bias in employment and civil rights cases, particularly wrongful termination and job discrimination cases, and negotiating severance packages. Cases include wrongful discrimination based upon age, gender / sex, national origin, race, pregnancy or disability.
I also served as a "citizen soldier" (US Army reservist), with tours of duty in the combat zones of Iraq (2004-05) and Afghanistan (2012), as an Army lawyer. I retired in the rank of lieutenant colonel.
We handle cases from Long Island, through New York City and into the Hudson...
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Jimmy M. Santos
Cornwall, NY Lawyer with 28 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights and Employment
Boston University School of Law
Mr. Santos has been practicing law for over twenty six years, most of which on behalf of employees. He has successfully represented numerous clients before the state and federal courts in New York, and before administrative agencies, including the EEOC, the New York State Division of Human Rights, the New York City Commission on Human Rights and the U.S. and N.Y.S. Departments of Labor.
His practice area includes representing individuals in employment law and civil rights litigation, mediations, and arbitrations in matters involving unlawful discrimination and harassment and retaliation in private and public employment, housing and public accommodations. He represents clients...
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Raed M. Issa
Cornwall, NY Attorney with 16 years of experience
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Traffic Tickets
Vermont Law School
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Edward Steves
Newburgh, NY Attorney with 46 years of experience
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury
Columbia Law School
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Howard Alan Kave
New Windsor, NY Attorney with 51 years of experience
Business, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Divorce
Brooklyn Law School and Brooklyn Law School
Howard first stood before a judge, in the Criminal Court of the City of New York at 100 Centre Street, in September of 1972. He has been representing persons accused of crime every working day since then, a period of nearly 46 years.
Howard learned his craft, as a courtroom lawyer, as a Senior Trial Attorney with the Legal Aid Society of the City of New York in Kings County. By the age of 26 he was regularly trying felony cases in the Supreme Court and winning most of them. After five years in that position, he was appointed a...
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Ellen Anne Fischer
New Windsor, NY Lawyer with 30 years of experience
Appeals
Villanova University School of Law
Medical malpractice defense, personal injury and appellate attorney Ellen A. Fischer has extensive experience in state appellate and motion practice. She also is well versed in mental hygiene law, including involuntary retention and medication hearings; federal motion practice; defense of physicians in civil rights actions by prisoners; and defense of premises liability actions.
Mrs. Fischer graduated with honors from Binghamton University in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and General Literature. She earned her Juris Doctorate from Villanova University School of Law in 1993. She has more than twenty-five years of experience as an attorney.
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Evan Zucker
New Windsor, NY Lawyer with 10 years of experience
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, Divorce, Family and Real Estate
New York Law School
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Lawrence Lissauer
Newburgh, NY Lawyer with 38 years of experience
Appeals and Personal Injury
Albany Law School
Mr. Lissauer, who specializes in appellate advocacy, joined Finkelstein & Partners in 1996. He is considered by his peers to be one of the premiere appellate advocates in regard to construction accidents and trial appeals. Mr. Lissauer has argued appeals in all four Appellate Divisions within New York State and has handled cases of first impression before the highest Court in New York, The Court of Appeals. He successfully argued the matter of Riglioni v. Chambers Four Tractor Sales Inc., 2005 08243, 2006 01746 where summary judgment was denied to a distributor and a retailer in a strict products liability...
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David Robert Sachs
New Windsor, NY Lawyer with 25 years of experience
Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Divorce and Family
Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
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Jonathan A. Chase
Cornwall on Hudson, NY Lawyer with 44 years of experience
Asbestos, Business, Insurance Claims and Insurance Defense
Syracuse University
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Michele A Murphy
Chester, NY Lawyer with 22 years of experience
1 Seely Road
Chester, NY 10918
Immigration
Massachusetts School of Law
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Tom Anelli
Fishkill, NY Attorney with 27 years of experience
701 US-9 #703
Fishkill, NY 12524
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense and DUI & DWI
St. Thomas University School of Law and Syracuse University
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Unlocking nearly two decades of dedicated expertise, Tom Anelli stands as the Senior Partner at Tom Anelli & Associates—a distinguished practice entirely devoted to DWI defense. With a fervent commitment to refining the most effective strategies, Tom has honed his skills to protect individuals facing DWI allegations.
Tom's remarkable achievements extend far and wide, including prestigious recognitions such as selection to Super Lawyers, the Nation’s Top One Percent, and the Nation’s Top 100 Trial Lawyers.
Notably, Tom has received specialized training directly from National Patent Analytical Systems, the leading manufacturer of the breath-testing devices...
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Peter J. Famighetti
Middletown , NY Attorney with 24 years of experience
Free ConsultationAppeals, Civil Rights, Employment and Real Estate
Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University
Peter is a passionate and dedicated advocate. Peter has represented clients in various forums, including the United States District Court for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, as well as in New York State Courts in the region. Throughout his career that has spanned more than a decade, Peter has served as defendants' and Plaintiffs' counsel in single and class action employment related litigation. Most recently, Peter won a jury trial on a First Amendment retaliation case in Federal Court. Additionally, Peter has appeared extensively in cases before arbitration tribunals and administrative agencies, including...
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Matthew Weinick
Middletown, NY Lawyer with 16 years of experience
Free ConsultationAppeals, Arbitration & Mediation, Civil Rights and Employment
Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University and SUNY Buffalo Law School
Matthew Weinick is a Long Island employment lawyer. Since the beginning of his career, Matt has been fighting for his clients’ workplace rights before Federal and State Court judges and administrative law judges. He has tried employment discrimination and retaliation cases before juries in Federal Court, represents clients at mediation and arbitration, and has argued appeals before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the New York Appellate Divisions, First and Second Departments. Matt’s success has been recognized for five consecutive years by Super Lawyers Magazine which listed him as a Rising Star from 2012-2016, a recognition reserved for...
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James Edward Monroe
Goshen, NY Attorney with 28 years of experience
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Personal Injury
Western Michigan University Cooley Law School
James E. Monroe is a partner at Dupée & Monroe. P.C. where he devotes his practice to representing injured plaintiffs in personal injury litigation including auto accidents, motorcycle accidents, and construction accidents. James also maintains an active criminal defense practice and represents people whose civil rights have been violated. James received his undergraduate degree from Albany State University in 1991 and earned his Juris Doctorate law degree from Western Michigan University Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan in 1996. In addition to his law practice, James is proud to serve as Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Access:Supports...
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Jeremy Saland
New City, NY Lawyer with 24 years of experience
Free ConsultationDUI & DWI, Domestic Violence, Stockbroker Fraud and White Collar Crime
State University of New York - Buffalo
A criminal lawyer and both a former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney and local Westchester County Municipal Prosecutor, Jeremy Saland handles all matters that directly or indirectly "touch" the criminal justice system. Whether defending the accused in the Criminal Courts or Juvenile Justice System before or at trial, representing students in university Title IX proceedings and Dean Disciplinary Hearings, securing or challenging the issuance of Family Court Orders of Protection, protecting victims from matters ranging from Revenge Porn and Harassment to Extortion and Blackmail, or sealing the criminal case of a client who has paid his or her dues long ago,...
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Allen A. Kolber,
Suffern, NY Attorney with 35 years of experience
(845) 918-1277
Rockland County Office
134 Route 59, Suite A
Suffern, NY 10901
Free ConsultationBankruptcy and Foreclosure Defense
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Our only practice is Bankruptcy Law and Foreclosure Defense.
Allen A. Kolber, Esq. graduated as a Belkin Fellow from Cardozo Law School in 1987 and was admitted into the New York State Bar. Mr. Kolber served as a Queens County Assistant District Attorney, was appointed a Supervisor in the Trial Bureau and later served in the Appeals Bureau drafting and arguing appeals before the New York State Appellate Division. In 1991, Allen Kolber accepted a position with a Wall Street litigation firm, and for the next 7 years, Mr. Kolber represented Underwriters at Lloyds of London in the...
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Steven Goldburd
Spring Valley, NY Lawyer with 17 years of experience
Tax
New York Law School and Fordham University School of Law
Steven Goldburd joined Goldburd McCone Attorneys after his tenure as Managing Attorney at the Law Offices of Donald G. Koch. Prior to that, he worked at Deloitte & Touche, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Geller & Company. He received his LL.M. from the New York Law School, J.D. from Fordham University School Law and B.S. in accounting from Brooklyn College.
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Randall Francis Inniss
Suffern, NY Lawyer with 24 years of experience
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Personal Injury
State University of New York - Buffalo
Randall F. Inniss is a DWI and Criminal Defense attorney who founded a boutique law firm and practices in the Hudson Valley region. A former 222 year state trooper, Randall joined the New York State Police at age 21. During the rigorous, 6 month state police academy, Randall was introduced and immersed into a wide-range of criminal, procedural, Vehicle and Traffic and other selected laws.
Vestiges of that training lives on. As an attorney, Randall holds an Instructor level qualification in Standardized Field Sobriety testing, the roadside tests officers give to stopped motorist suspected...
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Shari Ruth Gordon
Yorktown Heights, NY Lawyer with 39 years of experience
Free ConsultationDivorce and Family
Albany Law School
Shari R. Gordon, Esq.
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Since 1986, Shari R. Gordon has been practicing law. Her offices are located in Yorktown Heights and White Plains, New York. The law firm concentrates in matrimonial litigation and divorce mediation and criminal defense. Shari is also admitted to the Eastern and Southern District Courts as well as the United States Supreme Court. In addition to her divorce and family law practice, Shari has an extensive background in criminal defense as a former Senior Staff Trial Counsel with the Criminal Defense Division, Bronx County. She...
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Vince F. Sykes
Spring Valley, NY Lawyer with 15 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Employment and Personal Injury
Elisabeth Haub School of Law - Pace University
Attorney Vince Sykes is a veteran of the United States Air Force, where he served on active duty, as an enlisted, and earned several distinguished medals to include Good Conduct Medal and Overseas Tour of Duty.
Following military service, Vince obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (B.S.E.E.) from SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; a Masters in Business Administration (M.B.A.) from Pepperdine University, CA.; and a Juris Doctorate Degree (J.D.), Cum Laude, from Pace Law School, NY.
Vince’s career spans engineering positions in Silicon Valley where he worked for high-tech companies such as Cisco Systems, Bay Networks, Alcatel-Lucent, and various technology start-ups. Vince...
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Michael Evan Greenspan
New City, NY Lawyer with 32 years of experience
Free ConsultationConstruction, DUI & DWI, Personal Injury and Traffic Tickets
Temple University Beasley School of Law
I have been practicing law for over thirty years and have tried cases to verdict in State and Federal Court and argued appeals in both State and Federal Court. I lecture to other lawyers on trial practice and motor vehicle litigation practice in New York.
My goal is to relentlessly pursue justice for my clients and fight the insurance industry tooth and nail to see that the seriously injured receive fair and just compensation for their damages.
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Robert "Rob" Fellows
New City, NY Lawyer with 48 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
State University of New York - Buffalo
Widely regarded as one of the region’s most successful plaintiff’s attorneys, Rob Fellows is the firm’s managing partner. Rob brings more than 40 years of experience and legal skill to the courtroom and to his clients, where his reputation for meticulous attention to detail, relentless preparation, and aggressive advocacy has gained him the respect of colleagues, judges, and adversaries alike.
Rob believes that the firm’s strong connections with its clients are a major factor in its success. He says, “We take the time to get to know our clients as people, beyond the facts of their cases. We learn...
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Valerie J. Crown
New City, NY Lawyer with 41 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Nursing Home, Personal Injury and Social Security Disability
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Valerie dedicates her law practice to protecting the rights of individuals with serious injuries and disabilities. For the past 29 years, she has devoted her career to helping victims of abuse and neglect receive the compensation and benefits they deserve – whether from personal injury, dental malpractice, medical malpractice, nursing home abuse and wrongful death, social security disability, or workers compensation. Valerie is admitted to practice before all of the State Courts of New York, the Federal District Courts of the Southern and Eastern Districts, and the United States Supreme Court. She obtained her B.A. from Barnard College of Columbia...
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Brian Berkowitz
New City, NY Lawyer with 26 years of experience
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Traffic Tickets
Roger Williams University School of Law
While working as a prosecutor, Brian Berkowitz was appointed by the District Attorney of Rockland County as the Senior Assistant District Attorney in charge of the Vehicular Crimes and Driving While Intoxicated Bureau. In this supervisory role, he was responsible for the training of prosecutors and the review and assessment of every motor vehicle related crime and Driving While Intoxicated (DWI / DUI) case brought before the DA’s Office, as well as personally handling the most serious misdemeanor and felony cases from inception to trial.
As a Criminal Defense and Traffic Ticket Attorney, Brian Berkowitz has utilized his insight and...
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Dennis Vetrano
Beacon, NY Attorney with 26 years of experience
Criminal Defense, Divorce and Family
Albany Law School and Albany Law School
Dennis R. Vetrano, Jr., a divorce and criminal defense lawyer in Duchess County, is the founder of the Law Office of Dennis R. Vetrano, Jr., LLC. At the firm, Attorney Vetrano offers those with family law concerns thorough and understanding legal representation. With 17 years of legal experience, he carries an ability to make a competent judgment of whether a client’s case should be negotiated or tried in the court of law. As a skilled negotiator and courtroom litigator, he can advocate for client interests’ in both contexts. Attorney Vetrano knows every divorce is unique, and his firm works...
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Alfred Mainetti
Newburgh, NY Attorney with 52 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Nursing Home, Personal Injury and Products Liability
The John Marshall Law School
Alfred Mainetti is the senior partner of Mainetti Mainetti & O'Connor. He graduated from the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois with his J.D. Al works hard to make sure each client is able to receive the maximum compensation he or she deserves. He gets to know them as individuals and regularly communicates with them to update them on their case and to better serve their needs. He has successfully litigated multiple multi-million dollar settlements and verdicts for his clients. Al is active in the community and regularly sponsors charitable events and functions across the Hudson Valley.
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Andrew Jason Proto
Peekskill, NY Attorney with 25 years of experience
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Divorce and Family
Western New England University School of Law
As a former Assistant District Attorney in Westchester County, Andrew gained valuable experience while handling countless felony and misdemeanor cases. While an Assistant District Attorney he prosecuted a variety of criminal cases including murder, drug sale & possession, assault, DWI, theft and many others. Also, while a prosecutor he coordinated various investigations with state and local law enforcement, developing relationships he still maintains today.
Now as a criminal defense attorney Andrew has defended all types of criminal investigations and offenses including complex white collar crimes, million dollar thefts, grand and petit larcenies, assault, drug offenses, sex offenses, DWI/DUI,...
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Amir Hassan Sadaghiani
Goshen, NY Attorney with 18 years of experience
Free ConsultationDUI & DWI and Personal Injury
University of Notre Dame
Amir Hassan Sadaghiani has been the Managing Partner of Ostrer & Sadaghiani, P.C. since April 2022. Prior to forming the firm with his law partner, Benjamin Ostrer, Amir had been an attorney with Ostrer & Associates, P.C. since October 2014. He was promoted to Senior Associate in January 2021. Prior to entering private practice, he served the people of Orange County as an Assistant District Attorney since December 2006.While serving in the Orange County District Attorney's Office, he investigated, prosecuted, and tried numerous cases to verdict involving the crimes of murder, vehicular assault, arson, assault, intimidating a witness, robbery, burglary,...
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Andrew Finkelstein
Newburgh, NY Lawyer
1279 Route 300
Newburgh, NY 12551
Free ConsultationElder, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
Brooklyn Law School
Mr. Finkelstein is the Managing Partner of Finkelstein & Partners. He has become a noted consumer activist through his representation of injured individuals against corporate wrong doers and irresponsible parties. An accomplished litigator, Mr. Finkelstein has represented Plaintiffs in wrongful death and catastrophic personal injury cases arising from defective drugs, dangerous consumer products, automobile, bus and motorcycle accidents, dog bites, fall down accidents and air craft crashes. He has successfully handled dozens of multi-million dollar cases, including a $9 million dollar recovery for catastrophic injuries from a construction accident, $3.5 million dollars for injuries sustained in a car...
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Jonathan Bradford Ripps
New City, NY Lawyer with 29 years of experience
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Entertainment & Sports and Personal Injury
A versatile lawyer, Jonathan Ripps handles a wide array of cases. Whether you have been accused of driving under the influence of alcohol or victimized by somebody else’s negligence, you can depend on this trusted lawyer for excellent legal advice and representation. A passionate and proactive attorney, he will work tirelessly to secure a favorable resolution for your current case. For the ultimate in criminal and traffic defense, personal injury and entertainment law, do not hesitate to turn to the Law Offices of Jonathan B. Ripps.
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Evan Goldberg
Spring Valley, NY Lawyer with 35 years of experience
Free ConsultationConstruction, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Brooklyn Law School
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Evan Goldberg is a respected trial attorney and Past President of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association. With his grandfather having been an attorney and his father a former Supreme Court Justice, Mr. Goldberg has continued his family's tradition of service during his exclusive representation of accident victims for more than thirty years throughout NYC, L.I, Westchester, Rockland and Orange
Mr. Goldberg handles many complicated accident cases including car accidents, slip/trip and falls, construction accidents, medical malpractice, nursing home abuse, defective machinery/ products, landlord liability, lead paint poisoning, assault and wrongful death. Some of...
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Karen M. Hertz
Croton-On-Hudson, NY Lawyer with 35 years of experience
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation, Construction, Employment and Workers' Comp
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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Michael O'Leary
Middletown, NY Lawyer with 46 years of experience
Free ConsultationBankruptcy
State University of New York - Buffalo
Michael O’Leary, Esq. devotes his entire practice to consumer bankruptcy law, handling cases under Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 for individual persons, married couples and small businesses. In addition to having filed several thousand consumer bankruptcy cases for clients and having counseled many thousand more, Michael O’Leary served as a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Trustee in the Poughkeepsie (NY) Bankruptcy Court for seventeen (17) years (i.e. 1994 thru 2011), and administered well over ten thousand (10,000) Chapter 7 cases while serving in said capacity. Mr. O’Leary has established a well-deserved reputation as an attorney who capably and successfully represents his clients...
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Abel Arcia
Spring Valley, NY Lawyer with 32 years of experience
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury
Loyola University New Orleans
Ex-Prosecutor in Brooklyn, New York, with over 20 years experience handling complex criminal cases at the state and/or Federal level in New York, New Jersey, DC, Florida, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. Also, almost 20 years handling thousands of all types of Immigration matters in New York, New Jersey, Florida, Texas, California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Indiana. And almost 20 years handling hundreds of Construction Accident and automobile cases, and obtaining millions of dollars for victims.
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Zev Goldstein
New City, NY Attorney with 41 years of experience
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Landlord Tenant and Traffic Tickets
Yeshivas Ohr Somayach and Western New England College
The Law Offices of Zev Goldstein PLLC provides you with quality representation of traffic tickets and driving-related crimes like DWI/DUI, Aggravated Unlicensed Operation / driving on a suspended license, suspended registration and the like. We have successfully resolved over 30,000 cases.
Attorney Zev Goldstein started out prosecuting in the Albany Traffic Court. He now defends motorists anywhere in the state of New York who are charged with traffic violations.