Founded in 1969, we represent businesses ranging in size from Fortune 50® public corporations and large financial institutions to smaller public and privately-held companies, partnerships and individuals. We concentrate our legal services in the areas of complex litigation and dispute resolution, employment counseling and defense, real estate and commercial transactions, workouts and restructurings, professional liability and investigations, pharmaceutical and other life sciences, intellectual property and technology, trusts and estates and family law. Our lawyers are nationally recognized in their fields. Our firm includes former federal clerks, a former Assistant United States Attorney, and partners with extensive trial and appellate experience. We are leaders in the legal community. Members of our firm have served at the highest levels of leadership in organizations and bar associations such as the National Association of Women Lawyers, the Real Property Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association and American Intellectual Property Law Association. Our partners have served as officers and active members of national, state and local bar associations and were selected as members of the American Law Institute, the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, the American Bar Foundation, the New York State Bar Foundation and International Who's Who of Life Sciences Lawyers. Certified Women - Owned Firm We are a women-owned law firm certified by the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). Our firm includes men and women practicing at all levels of the firm. The firm received the 2010 Economic Empowerment Award, awarded by InsideCounsel, as part of its first Transformative Leadership Awards for firms and individuals. We are committed to diversity and advancing women and minority lawyers as leaders in the profession.