Member Contact Information; Practice Area Information; Committee Rosters (in alphabetical order):

Name: David J. Abeshouse   (ART Group Co-founder)

Firm Name: Law Office of David J. Abeshouse

Business Address:  50 Charles Lindbergh Boulevard; Suite 400

Uniondale, New York 11553

Telephone: 516-229-2360

Cell Phone (optional): 516-659-2660

Fax: 516-229-2361

Email:  David@BizLawNY.com

Web Address:  www.BizLawNY.com 

Practice Area:  Business-to-business dispute resolution, including litigation and alternative dispute resolution (ADR: arbitration and mediation): I represent clients as their lawyer-advocate in business disputes in court, arbitration, and mediation; also serve as neutral Arbitrator and Mediator on several national and international forums (e.g., Commercial Panel of Neutrals of the American Arbitration Association); and provide ADR consulting services to other lawyers.  

Description of Practice: 

Clients: Small to medium-sized businesses; Entrepreneurs; Professionals, including other lawyers 

Work & focus: Resolution of business disputes and conflicts through settlement negotiations, alternative dispute resolution (arbitration and mediation), or court litigation.

Also, serve as professional neutral arbitrator (on Commercial Panel of Neutrals of American Arbitration Association, International Centre for Dispute Resolution, and National Arbitration Forum; and maintain a private mediation practice (accepting business mediation referrals). 

A.R.T. Co-founder; member since 2000.

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Name: Jeffrey Bernstein

Business Address: 525 Northern Boulevard, Suite 210 

Great Neck, New York 11021

Telephone: 516-466-4600

Cell Phone (optional): 516-428-2658

Fax: 516-466-6958

Email:  lawwiz@optonline.net   

Description of Practice:  For companies with no in-house legal staff, I act in the capacity of a general counsel, handling day-to-day legal issues that arise and/or managing the work of outside counsel, whether in the area of corporate governance or in connection with contracts, financings, mergers, acquisitions and other transactions, litigation and/or other specialized matters.  For companies that have a general counsel or in-house legal department, I act as an overflow attorney and/or independent legal consultant.

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Name: James Bitetto

Firm Name: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

Business Address: 20 Crossways Park North; Suite 210

Woodbury, New York 11797

Telephone: 516-496-3868

Fax: 516-496-3869

Email:  jim@ktb-iplaw.com          

Practice Area:  Intellectual Property (Patents, Trademark, Copyrights)

Description of Practice: We protect ideas, identity and goodwill of our clients, build assets by developing intellectual property portfolios/strategies and obtain and protect patents, copyrights and trademarks.

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Name: Aaron Britvan

Firm Name: Law Offices of Aaron Britvan

Business Address: 7600 Jericho Turnpike,

  
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Name: Philip Capell

Firm Name: Piermont Wealth Management Inc.

Business Address: 135 Crossways Park Drive; Suite 102

Woodbury, New York 11797

Telephone: 516-496-7800, ext. 101

Cell Phone (optional): 516-313-6243

Fax: 516-496-7803

Email:  pcapell@piermontwealth.com   

Web Address:  www.piermontwealth.com

Practice Area:  Financial Planning/Investment Management

Description of Practice: Piermont is a fee-only, non-commission based financial planning and investment management firm with offices in Manhattan and Woodbury. We service high-net worth families who are looking for comprehensive financial, tax and retirement planning services. Our minimum initial client balance is $500,000.00, and our average client balance is approximately $1 million.

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Name: Adrian L. DiLuzio

Firm Name: Adrian L. Diluzio, Esq.

Business Address: 200 Old Country Road, Suite 590

Mineola, New York 11501

Telephone: 516-248-8930

Cell Phone (optional): 516-359-2179

Fax: 516-248-8281

Email:  aldiluzio@msn.com    

Practice Area:  Criminal Law

Description of Practice: I will represent anyone charged with a crime, and do so anywhere. Federal (drugs, insurance fraud, illegal smuggling of aliens, etc.); or State (murder, robbery, sex crimes, assaults, the usual gamut). Preferred client criterion is simply those who can pay. I have handled criminal cases in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and almost anywhere in New York. I have served as counsel in several prominent cases involving art fraud, murder, and embezzlement, and have experience in dealing with the media onslaught that accompanies these matters.

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Name: Ronald A. Fatoullah

Firm Name: Ronald Fatoullah & Associates

Business Address: 425 Northern Blvd.- Suite 20, Great Neck, NY 11021

Telephone: 516-466-4422

Email: rfatoullah@fatoullahlaw.com

Web Address: www.fatoullahlaw.com

Practice Area:  Elder Law

 
Description of Practice:  Elder Law, are related areas.  


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Name: David S. Feather

Firm Name: Law Offices of David S. Feather

Business Address: 666 Old Country Road, Suite 304

Garden City, NY  11530

Telephone: 516-745-9000

Email: DFeather@FeatherLawFirm.com

Web Address: www.FeatherLawFirm.com

Practice Area: Employment and Labor Law

Description of Practice: Committed to representing clients in all aspects of employment and labor law, including claims of unlawful employment discrimination, sexual and other harassment in the workplace, wage and hour issues including minimum wage and overtime claims, union arbitrations, employment contracts, non-compete and confidentiality agreements, and severance agreements.  


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Name: Justin C. Frankel

Firm Name: Frankel & Newfield, P,C.

Business Address: 585 Stewart Avenue, Suite 301

Garden City, New York 11530

Telephone: 516-222-1600

Cell Phone (optional): 516-510-7804

Fax: 516-222-0513

Email:  JCF@FrankelNewfield.com   

Web Address:  www.FrankelNewfield.com

Practice Area:  Individual and Long Tern Disability; ERISA

Description of Practice: Representing individuals in group and private long-term disability insurance claims and litigation. Representing individuals preparing to file a long term disability claim, individuals whose long term disability claims are being processed and need guidance, and individuals whose long term disability claims have been wrongfully denied or terminated. Many of the firm’s clients are doctors, dentists and other white-collar professionals.

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Name: Saundra M. Gumerove

Firm Name: Law Office of Saundra M. Gumerove

Business Address: 42 Marian Lane

Jericho, New York 11753 Telephone: 516-822-3397

Fax: 516-822-3516

Email:  smg@smgesq.com   

Web Address: www.smgesq.com and advokidsblog.com 

Practice Area:  Special Needs including 17A Guardianships, life planning, supplemental needs trusts, special needs settlement planning, and Special Education

Description of Practice: 

Clients: Families of individuals with special needs, individuals with special needs

Work and focus: Resolution of issues facing families with individuals with disabilities, including guardianship, life planning, supplemental needs trusts, special needs settlement planning, special education issues, housing.  Also, training of professionals, including service coordinators, insurance agents, and other professionals, on issues facing families with individuals with special needs.

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Firm Name: Law Office of David B. Katz

Business Address: 45-17 Marathon Parkway

Little Neck, New York 11362-1253

Telephone: 718-228-1900

Cell Phone (optional): 516-448-6581

Fax: 718-228-9910

Email:  dkatz@katzlegal.com      

Practice Area:  Real estate transactions, acquisitions, management and lending

Description of Practice: Engage in all aspects of real estate transactions including purchase or sale of commercial and residential properties; and refinances of coop and condo buildings, single family homes, multi-family homes, individual coop and condo apartments, and other properties.     

I am a principal involved in the acquisition and operation of multi-family properties, construction, development and sale of commercial and residential properties.

Preferred clients are single owners or investors.  Preferred work is transactions -- purchases, sales and refinances.

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Name: Caryn L. Lilling

Firm Name: Mauro Goldberg & Lilling, LLP

Business Address: 60 Cutter Mill Road; Suite 200

Great Neck, New York 11021

Telephone: 516-487-5800

Fax: 516-487-5811

Email:  clilling@mglappeals.com       

Web Address: www.mglappeals.com

Practice Area:  Litigation strategy and Appellate Advocacy

Description of Practice:  We dedicate our practice to Litigation Strategy and Appellate Advocacy. That's all we do. Having handled over 1,000 cases on appeal and with 75 years of combined appellate experience among our members, we have the skills necessary for this distinctive area of law. We know what works and what doesn't. And our track record proves it. For most clients, the appellate arena is the last chance to obtain or retain victory.

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Firm Name: Law Offices of Russell I. Marnell, P.C.

Firm Name: Law Office of Michael J. Meehan

Business Address: 73 Sackett Street

Hicksville, New York 11801

Telephone: 516-822-4142

Fax: 516-620-6843

Email:  mjmeehanesq@gmail.com      

Web Address:   www.meehanlawoffice.com 

Practice Area:  Immigration Matters: Removal and Deportation Hearings; Family based green cards; Employment-based green cards; Asylum; Naturalization of Citizenship; Criminal Aliens; Airport/Border Detentions

Description of Practice: Persons who have been placed in removal/deportation proceedings who have family members eligible to petition for them, or have an employer eligible to petition for them, or who are seeking asylum, to apply for citizenship, or who already have green cards but have a serious criminal charge making them deportable, or persons who are stopped at airport when arriving into the United States.

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Name: Steve Millon

Firm Name: Steven E. Millon, Esq.

Business Address: 738 Durham Road

East Meadow, New York 11554

and

714 E 241^st St., Bronx, New York 10470

Telephone: 516-292-2900

Fax: 718-324-0333

Email:  smillaw@aol.com     

Web Address:  www.mspfeifer.com

Practice Area:  Negligence, Medical Malpractice, Products Liability

Description of Practice: We represent plaintiffs in all types of accident/injury cases in Metropolitan Area, Upstate and Florida

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Name: Michael L. Pfeifer

Firm Name: Law Office of Michael L. Pfeifer, P.C.

Business Address: 350 Old Country Road; Suite 101

Garden City, New York 11530

Telephone: 516-222-1773

Email: mpfeifer@pfeiferlawoffice.com          

Practice Area:  Elder Law. 

Description of Practice: Help clients control their financial and health care decisions.  Assist families in crisis (requiring immediate home care or nursing home care).  Frequent lecturer to other attorneys, accountants and community groups.  Regular contributor to the NYSBA's Elder Law Attorney. 

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Name: Troy G. Rosasco 

Firm Name: Turley, Redmond & Rosasco, LLP

Business Address: 230 Hilton Avenue, Suite 4

Hempstead, New York 11550

Telephone: 516-745-5666; Toll Free 1-877-NY-DBLAW

Fax: 631-580-3042

Email:   tgrosasco@nydisabilitylaw.com      

Web Address:  www.disabledworkerlaw.com      www.nydisabilitylaw.com

Practice Area:  Long-term Disability, Worker’s Compensation, Social Security Disability

Description of Practice: Anyone disabled from working or injured at work. Professionals with individual long-term disability policies.

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Name: Elliot Samuelson

Firm Name: Samuelson, Hause & Samuelson, LLP

Business Address: 300 Garden City Plaza

Garden City, New York 11530

Telephone: 516-294-6666

Cell Phone (optional): 516-697-0127

Fax: 516-294-6622

Email:  info@samuelsonhause.net   

Web Address:  www.NewYorkStateDivorceLawyers.com

Practice Area:  Matrimonial Law and Sexual Harassment

Description of Practice: High income wage earners.

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Name: Nancy B. Schess

Firm Name: Klein Zelman Rothermel LLP

Business Address: 485 Madison Avenue

New York, New York 10022

Telephone: 212-935-6020

Fax: 212-753-8101

Email:  nschess@kleinzelman.com             

Web Address: www.kleinzelman.com


Practice Area:  Labor/Employment LawRepresenting Management

Description of Practice: Helping small and large businesses in multiple disciplines proactively develop and implement preventive personnel policies and practices. We provide compliance training, policy development and counseling in an effort to avoid workplace claims. We also handle all types of litigation arising from the workplace, including before administrative agencies and federal and state courts.

Business Address: 14 Faulkner Lane

Dix Hills, New York 11746

Telephone: 631-427-5158

Cell Phone (optional): 631-804-8922

Fax: 631-427-0302

Email: jsilver@jeffsilvercpa.com      jsjdcpa@aol.com       

Web Address:  www.jeffsilvercpa.com

Practice Area:  Tax

Description of Practice: High net worth individuals; small/midsized business and business owners; taxpayers needing representation re IRS/state/local tax controversies; businesses engaged in international transactions; expatriates/non-resident aliens; merger and acquisitions; estate/trust/gift taxation.

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Name: John V. Soderberg, PE, Esq.

Firm Name: Law/Engineering Offices of John V. Soderberg

Business Address: 207 Hallock Road, Suite 212 

Stony Brook, NY  11790  

Telephone: 631-751-6458

Cell Phone (optional): 631-834-9537

Fax: 631-751-6434

Email: jvsode@hotmail.com

Practice Area:  Environmental Law and Environmental Engineering

Description of Practice: Clients include individuals and small to medium-sized businesses; work focuses upon resolution of environmental contamination issues, Brownfield negotiations, sales of properties with environmental contamination, and representation before administrative tribunals and courts.  Also serve as professional engineer in environmental compliance and permitting matters before federal, state, and local regulatory agencies.

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Name: Andrew M. Thaler

Firm Name: Thaler & Gertler, LLP

Business Address: 90 Merrick Avenue, Suite 400

East Meadow, New York 11554

Telephone: 516-228-3553

Fax: 516-228-3396

Email:  thaler@thalergertler.com    

Web Address:  www.thalergertler.com

Practice Area:  Bankruptcy

Description of Practice: All aspects of commercial and consumer bankruptcy. Looking for institutional clients, such as banks to service their needs, such as vacate stay motions, cash collateral, etc., and landlords.

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Name: Stewart Wurtzel

Firm Name: Deutsch Tane Waterman & Wurtzel, PC

Business Address: 120 Broadway; Suite 948

New York, New York 10271

Telephone: 212-766-4000

Cell Phone (optional): 516-816-9362

Fax: 212-766-4022

Email:  Swurtzel@deutschtane.com       

Web Address:  www.deutschtane.com

Practice Area:  Real estate litigation, co-op and condo representation

Description of Practice: General counsel to co-op and condo boards throughout metro area. Landlord-tenant and all real estate litigation.

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Name: David A. Zarett

Firm Name: Weiss & Zarett, P.C.

Business Address: 3333 New Hyde Park Road; Suite 211

New Hyde Park, New York 11042

Telephone: 516-627-7000

Cell Phone (optional): 516-972-0491

Fax: 516-877-1172

Email:  dzarett@weisszarett.com      

Web Address: www.weisszarett.com

Practice Area:  Healthcare Law

Description of Practice: Physicians/Dentists

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Committee Rosters:

Executive Committee (elected to initial two-year term 1/07; second EC term commenced 1/09 following nomination process) -- D. Abeshouse; J. Bernstein; P. Capell; J. Frankel; J. Silver 

Program* -- Co-Chairs: J. Silver and P. Capell (Exec. Comm. Liaison), A. Thaler, N. Schess, M. Pfeifer, R. Fatoullah

Membership -- Co-Chairs: J. Frankel and J. Silver (Exec. Comm. Liaison), A. DiLuzio, S. Millon, J. Bitetto, D. Feather 

Special/Social Events -- P. Capell (Exec. Comm. Liaison), E. Samuelson, S. Wurtzel, D. Katz, D. Zarett 

Financial/Treasurers -- J. Bernstein (Exec. Comm. Liaison), A. Thaler 

Website/Blog/Online Social Media -- D. Abeshouse (Exec. Comm. Liaison), T. Rosasco, M. Meehan, S. Wurtzel

Advertising Committee -- Co-Chairs: J. Bernstein and J. Frankel (Exec. Comm. Liaisons), C. Lilling  

Luddite Webmaster:  D. Abeshouse

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* Program Committee members are responsible for running the regular monthly meetings, on a rotating basis. The Program Committee person running the meeting for a particular month selects the location (if not already reserved) and seating configuration ("U" shape, rectangle, or separate round tables, etc.), reserves the room and arranges the configuration with the restaurant, sets the agenda (and sometimes even distributes a written agenda in advance via e-mail if that would be useful), arranges for an outside speaker (if any) or member spotlight presentations or other program exercise, sends around the e-mail notice of meeting about 3 weeks beforehand to request member RSVPs, sends a reminder notice to members about a week before the meeting, gathers RSVPs and reports the head count to the restaurant two days in advance, and runs the meeting. The further in advance such aspects as restaurant location and any speakers or discussion programs are arranged, the more smoothly things tend to go (and the less likely it is that any given private room will be unavailable or that a prospective speaker will have a conflict for that evening). David A. is available to help with any aspect along the way. The earlier you start, the less time consuming it is likely to be – it can take as little as an hour or two of time over a period of weeks, or it could take a couple of hours more if the programming is more complex or planning is not done sufficiently far in advance. Commitment to lead a meeting and reservation of the private room should be done at least 60 days in advance of the meeting date to decrease likelihood of unavailability or other complication.   

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DISCLAIMER: Please note that the Attorney Round Table (ART) is not a law firm, partnership, or any other type of entity. Members of ART are valuable resources for each other, as they have expertise in varied practice areas. Each attorney who is a member of ART has a practice separate from other ART members (and may be a partner or principal in a law partnership, limited liability company, professional limited liability company, professional corporation or a sole proprietorship). No attorney in ART has any liability or responsibility for the services or work product of any other member of ART.