APPEALS

Federal and State

IRS Exam and Appeal Levels

CIVIL RIGHTS

Federal and State Court litigation involving defense of school districts, municipalities and law enforcement agencies in matters involving employment discrimination, sexual harassment, sexual molestation and use of improper and/or illegal force by police and/or other governmental agencies.

COORDINATING COUNSEL/COMPLEX CASE MANAGEMENT

Representation of corporations, businesses, insurance companies and self-insureds as coordinating counsel in mass toxic tort litigation. Complex Case Management.

CORPORATE

All areas of corporate law

Bonding

Commercial Litigation

Commercial Real Estate

Construction Bond Surety issues

Contract Preparation and Review

Coordinating Counsel

Corporate Organization and Dissolution

Corporate Taxation

Employee Benefits Analysis

Employment Discrimination

Employment Handbooks

Employment Issues

Environmental

Federal income taxation

General Counsel

Information Reporting and Withholding Issues

Insurance

International taxation

Investment Issues

Mergers and Acquisitions

Transactional Cost Issues

Other Transactional matters

Representation before the IRS at Exam and Appeal levels

Risk Management

ENVIRONMENTAL

CERCLA cost recovery

Clean Air/Clean Water

Leaking underground storage tanks

Mass toxic torts including asbestos, lead and mold

National Coordinating Counsel activities (e.g., served as national coordinating counsel for carrier involved in 25,000 asbestos cases in 7 states)

New York State (DEC, DOH, and DOL) and United States (EPA) representation

Silica

Spills

GENERAL COUNSEL

Representation in a general counsel capacity of corporations, businesses and insurance companies.

GOVERNMENTAL REPRESENTATION

Executive (U.S. and State)

Legislative (U.S. and State)

Administrative (U.S. and State)

Lobbying

INSURANCE

Construction Bond Surety

Coverage and Bad Faith Issues

Defense of personal auto, commercial auto, labor law, premises liability, products liability, civil rights, construction defect, medical malpractice, errors and omission, other professional malpractice, municipalities, school districts, environmental, libel and slander

Federal insurance taxation of large and mid-size Life Insurance and Property & Casualty Insurance Groups

Licensing before State Insurance Departments

State Regulatory Audits

Reinsurance

Representation before State Insurance Agencies

LABOR LAW

Corporate Counseling

Employee Benefit Issues

Employment Discrimination

Employment Handbooks

New York State Division of Human Rights

Federal Equal Opportunity Commission

LITIGATION

Administrative Hearings

Appellate

Asbestos

Bond Surety

Corporate

Civil Rights

Environmental

Federal and State Courts

Insurance Defense

Intellectual Property

IRS Exam and Appeal levels

Lead

Medical Malpractice

Mold

Municipalities

Products Liability

Professional Liability

Property Tax Assessments

Personal Injury

Silica

Trials

Toxic torts

MUNICIPALITIES

Assessments

Litigation

General Liability

Civil Rights

Environmental

Insurance

PERSONAL INJURY

Representation of seriously injured persons.

PHARMACOLOGY

Manufacture

Retail

Generally

TAXATION

Certified Public Accountant (Massachusetts)

Corporate

Corporate Taxation

Federal

Federal Income Taxation

Federal insurance taxation of large and mid-size Life Insurance and Property & Casualty Insurance Groups

Information reporting and withholding issues

International

Representation of clients before IRS at Exam and Appeal levels