Top-Rated Personal Injury Lawyers in New York
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Top-Rated Personal Injury Lawyers in New York
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Marc J. Held is a founding partner of Held & Hines, LLP. Marc Held is a highly experienced lawyer in trial practice, with extensive experience in real estate litigation, real estate transactions, negligence, civil rights, commercial litigation, courtroom litigation, negotiations of settlement, mediations, arbitrations, refereeing, motion practice, client consultation, shareholder agreements, employment agreements, stock sales, business transactions, managing agent, consumer affairs litigation, corporate litigation, contract litigation, personal injury, premises liability and negligent supervision.
Philip M. Hines is a founding member of Held & Hines, LLP. Mr. Hines devotes a large portion of his practice to defending civil rights and advocating for prisoner’s rights and the rights of the wrongfully convicted, having successfully obtained compensation for scores of victims of sexual abuse, excessive force, religious discrimination, false arrest, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, police harassment, and denial of medical care.
Brandon Dixon, Esq. is an associate attorney whose practice focuses on personal injury litigation. Having begun his career with the firm while still a student at Albany Law School, Mr. Dixon developed hands-on experience working on active cases from the ground up and now brings that same practical, litigation-focused approach to his work as an admitted attorney.
Carissa Caukin, Esq. is a civil rights attorney with extensive experience litigating complex constitutional and wrongful conviction cases. She represents plaintiffs in actions brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and New York unjust conviction statutes, and has played a key role in securing multiple multi-million-dollar settlements on behalf of her clients.
Carl E. Zapffe has been a litigation attorney since 2005. At the state level, he has extensive experience litigating matters throughout New York and New Jersey, and at the federal level, he has extensive experience litigating matters throughout the country. Since he began his career as a litigation attorney nearly twenty years ago, he has litigated thousands of matters, encompassing a wide array of disputes, both contract- and tort-related, as well as matters involving numerous different types of statutes and common-law causes of action.
Edward S. Miller has had extensive practice in real estate law for the past 33 years. His areas of practice include residential and commercial real estate, REO’s and foreclosures, coops and condominiums, as well as both residential and commercial financing. Edward is adept in representing both the seasoned investor and the first time home buyer. He is well versed in all aspects of the drafting of real estate contracts, mortgages and notes, and leases as well. He is also experienced in the drafting of estate planning documents, including wills, living wills, health care proxies and powers of attorney.
Jeffrey B. Manca, Esq. is a seasoned trial attorney with more than two decades of experience litigating high-stakes personal injury and workers’ compensation cases. Known for his aggressive advocacy and command of the courtroom, he has built his career taking cases from intake through verdict, and is always prepared to try a case when insurers refuse to pay fair value.
Eliot Gonshorek grew up in Coney Island, Brooklyn and has been a licensed attorney in both New York and Connecticut for 35 years.
He spent the first 10 years of his legal career practicing law in the areas of commercial litigation, personal injury law, real estate transactions, and in both Family Law and Matrimonial litigation, while working at a mid-sized general practice law firm located in Garden City, New York.
Sherry Danzig is a music attorney and former artist manager with over 15 years of industry experience. In 2005, Sherry began her legal career at the William Morris Agency, one of the top talent agencies in the world. As a business affairs executive, Sherry was a lawyer for the music and personal appearance department working on transactions globally across all of the agency’s offices (Beverly Hills, New York City, Nashville, London, and Sydney). Sherry remained at the agency for 10 years, including through its merger with Endeavor (renaming the agency “WME”) and then WME|IMG.
