in transactional business, regulatory banking matters, litigation, foreclosure, bankruptcy, and sale of foreclosed properties.

Municipal and Governmental Clients such as:

Insurance and Defense Clients, such as:

Corporate Clients, such as:

Labor Union, such as:

PRACTICE GROUPS

The firm maintains banking, real estate, environmental, zoning and land use, litigation, insurance defense, municipal, landlord-tenant, school district, bankruptcy, foreclosure, corporate, trusts, estates and taxation practice groups. This diversity enables the firm to offer creative client representation which employs an interdisciplinary approach to legal issues. Each matter, therefore is attended by lawyers from various disciplines on an as-needed basis.

REAL ESTATE

We represent builders, developers, shopping centers and national commercial tenants in connection with their leasing, zoning, expansion and borrowing needs.

LENDING

We have considerable expertise in representing financial institutions in negotiating and drafting required loan documentation, and in closing a wide variety of commercial real estate and corporate lending transactions, including unsecured loans, secured loans, revolving credit loans, commercial finance, trade lines, term loans and asset-based lending transactions, as well as short-term construction lending and permanent real estate lending secured by mortgages on shopping centers, apartment complexes, industrial buildings, commercial buildings and residential subdivisions. The firm also is involved with structuring and closing health care related financing, industrial revenue bond financing and co-op and condominium conversions. Additionally, in the course of our representation of our banking clients, we regularly furnish advice on current developments in federal and state banking laws, regulatory and environmental issues, as well as update on recent court decisions.

LITIGATION

We represent our clients in federal and New York state courts in significant areas of the law such as contracts, banking, bankruptcy and creditors' rights, real estate, product liability, trademark and unfair competition, equal employment opportunity, libel and slander, civil rights, municipal law and various other business-related litigation. The firm also litigates in personal injury defense matters for insurers and self-insureds, as well as subrogation claims. We also represent clients before State and Administrative Agencies.

MUNICIPAL

The firm is often called upon by governmental bodies to represent their interests. The United States, through the former Resolution Trust Corporation and the FDIC, has retained the firm to handle litigation, workouts and restructurings arising from failed savings and loan institutions in New York. The firm has acted as counsel to the County of Suffolk, and the Towns of Southampton, Babylon and Huntington. The firm also represents the Villages of Hempstead, Northport, Freeport and Patchogue and the Cities of Long Beach and New Rochelle.

PRO BONO
COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION

The firm has always responded to people in the community who are in need by actively providing legal services through the Nassau/Suffolk Pro Bono Program, as well as individual Pro Bono services on a selective basis. The firm also donates its legal services to organizations in Nassau and Suffolk which provide shelter and food for the homeless and hungry, such as the Huntington Coalition for the Homeless and Community Advocates. In addition, the firm participates in the support of charitable and cultural not-for-profit organizations. During the past 12 months, the firm has contributed its financial resources to local organizations such as The Interfaith Nutrition Network, The Nassau Symphony Orchestra, The Epilepsy Foundation, The Nassau County Mental Health Association, The Family Services Association, the NAACP-Hempstead Branch, Greater New York Council Boy Scouts of America, Friends of the Long Island Museum of Science and Technology, St. Christopher Home, Ursuline Sisters, Helen Keller Services, East Meadow Kiwanis, Sons of Italy in America, Queens Council Boy Scouts of America, The Pride of Judea Mental Health Center, Telicare (a project of the Diocese of Rockville Centre), The American Red Cross, Winthrop University Hospital, North Shore Child & Family Guidance Association, Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation, The Long Island Association, The United Jewish Appeal, The Long Island Alzheimer's Foundation, and The Long Island Philharmonic and The Sea Cliff Chamber Players, Advancement for Commerce & Industry, Friends of the Arts, B'nai B'rith Foundation, Boys Hope/Girls Hope, March of Dimes, Long Island Builders Institute, The Guide Dog Foundation, Long Island Community Foundation, New York State Bankers Association, Columbian Lawyers Association, National Association of Mothers Centers.

The firm's main office is located at 100 Garden City Plaza, Garden City which houses a complete law library, eight conference rooms, duplicating and word processing equipment and state of the art computers and telex facilities.