David Wilck will be a presenter at the American Conference Institute’s LPL Legal Malpractice Conference to be held on Oct. 24-25, 2016.  The Conference will provide insights and strategies addressing the latest challenges including:

• What does an LPL policy cover and what does a cyber policy cover?
• Attorneys’ being sued by third-parties
• Claims against

UNIONDALE, NY – Rivkin Radler LLP is pleased to announce that twenty attorneys were named to the 2016 New York Metro Super Lawyers List and five attorneys were named as New York Metro Rising Stars.

Being named a Super Lawyer is a tremendous honor reserved for only the top 5% of all lawyers in a

Janice DiGennaro is a speaker at New York State Bar Association’s Risk Management program on Friday, Oct. 14, 2016. Janice’s session is entitled, “Relations with Others, Including Partners and Non-Clients.”

The session includes:

• Integrity in dealing with non-clients – Standards of Civility
• Intra-firm relationships
• Dealing with partners
• Supervisory responsibilities of law firms and attorneys
• Scope of supervisory responsibility

Janice DiGennaro will participate in a panel discussion entitled, “Use and Defense of Experts in Legal Malpractice Cases,” at the American Bar Association National Legal Malpractice Conference on September 22, in Chicago.

Use and Defense of Experts in Legal Malpractice Cases
The latitude with which an opposing expert is permitted to testify at trial

Peter C. Contino and Carol A. Lastorino secured a pre-answer dismissal of the complaint against our client, an out-of-state attorney and law firm, arising out of an out-of-state litigation based on the lack of personal jurisdiction.  Plaintiff argued that the Court had personal jurisdiction over the defendants because the law firm previously maintained an office

Gregory D. Miller was quoted in a recent Inc.com article entitled, “This App Can Get You Anything (Legal) From Anywhere.”

A new shopping app called Grabr, which lets an individual who wants something he or she can’t find locally to post a plea for someone to bring it to them, presents

Peter Contino and Todd Belous recently obtained a dismissal of a grievance against our client based on the alleged disclosure of confidential information.  The Grievance Committee found that the attorney did not violate the Rules of Professional Conduct.  This is Peter and Todd’s fourth victory on the client’s behalf in four separate but inter-related matters

Janice DiGennaro has joined the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics. This Committee is the most productive Committee in the State as it writes and publishes more ethics opinions than any other Bar Committee and its opinions become influential sources for ethical guidance to the courts and attorneys across the State.

NYSBA Committee

David Wilck and Francine Adler were featured in a recent Long Island Business News article entitled, “Learned Before They Were Lawyers.” The article focuses on how lawyers use experience from previous careers to help them in their law practice.

David Wilck was featured for his time spent as in-house professional liability claims counsel for an

Jon Bruno and Seth Goldberg were successful in obtaining a pre-answer dismissal of plaintiffs’ complaint, which alleged multiple claims including legal malpractice and fraud, in the Supreme Court, New York County.  The court concluded that the documentary evidence they submitted conclusively refuted plaintiffs’ allegations as a matter of law and dismissed the complaint with prejudice.