Jon Bruno has been selected to the editorial advisory board of Law360’s Legal Ethics Newsletter.

Advisory board members are tasked with giving feedback to section editors about specific news coverage and improve the newsletter’s overall reporting.

Jon will serve through 2018.

Shari Claire Lewis and Anna Mandel secured summary judgment dismissal of claims against the firm’s client, an attorney. The action, venued in New York State Supreme Court Nassau County, was brought by a former client of the attorney. The dispute was based on the legal fees earned in connection with the underlying multi-million dollar contract.

Jon Bruno and Anna Mandel secured a pre-answer dismissal in the Supreme Court, New York County, of a complaint asserting a sole claim for violations of Judiciary Law Section 487 against their lawyer client.  In dismissing the action, the Court adopted the arguments Bruno and Mandel raised, rejecting plaintiff’s “novel” theory and concluding that plaintiff

Peter Contino and Deborah Isaacson secured a pre-answer dismissal in the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, of multiple claims against their lawyer clients, including claims for a violation of Judiciary Law Section 487, tortious interference with a contract, abuse of process, trespass and conversion.

In dismissing the action on almost every single ground asserted in our

John Robertelli obtained summary judgment on behalf of an equipment financing and leasing company. The dismissal was received from the Atlantic County Superior Court Judge James P. Savio J.S.C. who recognized that 49 U.S.C.A. 30106 (The Graves Act) and New Jersey case law bars any action against the leasing company based upon vicarious liability. Attached

David Wilck and Avigael Fyman obtained a successful result on behalf of their client, an accountant, in an action alleging claims for malpractice and fraud.  After the plaintiffs’ claims against their client were discontinued, Wilck and Fyman successfully opposed the co-defendants’ motion to amend their answer and bring the accountant back into the litigation via

Janice DiGennaro and Shari Lewis secured pre-answer dismissal in the Nassau County Supreme Court Commercial Division of complex claims of legal malpractice involving $70 million worth of real damages based upon alleged malpractice of predecessor lawyers in the prosecution of fraud claims.  The case was a legal malpractice within a legal malpractice within a fraud

Shari Claire Lewis was interviewed for an article titled, “Negotiating in the Workplace, with Advice from Renowned Women Attorneys” in the American Bar Association’s Fall 2017 issue of The Woman Advocate. This article provides anecdotes from the lives of successful attorneys and their struggles with negotiating for a fair salary.

To read the article click here.

David Wilck and Lawrence Han obtained a complete dismissal of a complaint against their clients, who included a principal and officers of a company providing 1031 exchange services.  Plaintiff, who was seeking to benefit from a 1031 exchange, fell victim to a cyber-criminal and had his funds, which were held by the entity acting as

Janice DiGennaro, Todd Belous and Merrill Biscone received a victory in the Appellate Division, First Department, dismissing third-party claims for contribution in a mass fraud and Judiciary Law action involving hundreds of phen-phen plaintiffs against their mass tort lawyer.  The basis for the dismissal is an issue of first impression in the state court in