Laura Shockley, a partner in the firm’s Employment & Labor and Litigation & Appeals Practice Groups, will be presented, “Legal Risks of Monitoring or Restricting Social Media in the Workplace,” at LIU Post.

Ms. Shockley will discuss steps for employers to minimize risks related to monitoring or restricting social medial use by employees, recent case

On Oct. 23, 2012, Michael Troisi, a partner in the firm’s Insurance Coverage & Litigation and Litigation & Appeals Practice Groups, will be a featured speaker in an audio webinar entitled, “Recovery of Consequential Damages Resulting from an Insurer’s Breach of Contract:  Bi-Economy Market and Beyond.”  The webinar will address the decision by the New

Michael Sirignano, a partner in the firm’s Litigation & Appeals and Real Estate, Zoning & Land Use Practice Groups, presented at the 22nd Annual Anti-Fraud Insurance Conference.  Mr. Sirignano’s presentation was entitled, “Pain Management Fraud:  A Growing Pain for PIP Insurers.”

This presentation provided an overview of many different pain management procedures and the latest

Managing Partner, William Savino, will be a speaker at the Suffolk Academy of Law CLE Program entitled, “Advice From the Experts:  Successful Strategies For Winning Commercial Cases in New York State Courts.”  Mr. Savino’s topic is entitled, “The Client’s Perspective of Business Litigation.”

Why Attend?

In this special, fast-paced program, an all star cast of

Evan Krinick, Michael Versichelli, and Max Gershenoff, members of the firm’s Litigation and Appeals Practice Group won a major victory for plaintiff New York debt collection attorneys in Eric M. Berman, P.C. v. City of New York, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 143313 (E.D.N.Y. 2012), when United States District Judge Eric N. Vitaliano struck down key parts

Norman Tolle, a Partner in the firm’s Insurance Coverage & Litigation and Litigation & Appeals Practice Group, will be part of a panel discussion at this year’s International Claim Association’s 103d Annual Education Conference.  The panel discussion is entitled, “STOLI Update’ and will discuss recent developments with STOLI/STOVA/SEC investigation of life partners.

The Conference with

David M. Grill and Jason Gurdus obtained the dismissal of a breach of contract lawsuit pending before the Supreme Court, Suffolk County.  The Court granted their motion to dismiss and consolidated the first filed Suffolk County breach of contract with a subsequently filed lawsuit in New York County, which sought, among other relief, to foreclose

Evan Krinick, Michael Versichelli, and Max Gershenoff of Rivkin Radler’s Litigation and Appeals practice group secured the complete dismissal, on reconsideration, of a putative federal class action against State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, entitled Servedio v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., E.D.N.Y. Docket No. CV 10-1458. The aspiring lead plaintiff had contended, among

Michael Versichelli and Tamika Hardy obtained dismissal of a putative class action brought by a claimant challenging a no-fault insurer’s industry-wide practice of calculating lost wage benefits under New York’s no-fault law.  The court held that a no-fault insurer is permitted to offset the 20% tax reduction for lost wages against the $50,000 cap for

Pia Riverso, a partner in the firm’s Insurance Coverage & Litigation, Intellectual Property and Litigation & Appeals Practice Groups, has been spotlighted as a member of the Professional Women In Construction National Association in their Sept. 2012 ePWC newsletter.

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