HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Hofstra Law School was among the top ten law schools in the country for “
Super Lawyers” in the Metro New York area, with 103 Hofstra Law alumni or 3% of the total number of honorees. Of the top ten schools, Hofstra Law School, founded in 1970, was the youngest.
Super Lawyers is an annual publication of the top five percent of attorneys in the New York metro area, based on peer surveys and independent research.
Ben B. Rubinowitz ’81 of Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigmen, Mackauf, Bloom & Rubinowitz, was recognized among the Top 100 Super Lawyers in the metro New York area for his work in personal injury plaintiff law and medical malpractice. Judith A. Livingston ’79 of Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore, was recognized among the Top 50 Women Super Lawyers in the metro New York area for her work in personal injury plaintiff law and medical malpractice.
Below is the complete list of Hofstra Law alumni honored:
Robert M. Abrahams ’76, Business Litigation, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, New York
Michael J. Angelo ’82, Family Law, Real Estate, Reisman Peirez & Reisman LLP, Garden City
Michael F. Bachner ’81, Criminal Defense: White Collar, Securities Litigation, Criminal Defense, Bachner & Associates, New York
John H. Bae ’89, Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, New York
Cyril Baines ’71, Appellate, Personal Injury Plaintiff: General, The Perecman Firm, PLLC, New York
Stuart S. Ball ’84, Real Estate, Westerman Ball Ederer Miller & Sharfstein, LLP
Jay G. Baris ’78, Securities & Corporate Finance, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, New York
Philippe Bennett ’81, Intellectual Property Litigation, Intellectual Property, Alston & Bird LLP, New York
Richard H. Block ’76, Employment & Labor, Employment Litigation: Defense, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., New York
Jeffrey B. Bloom ’79, Personal Injury Plaintiff: Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury Plaintiff: General, Professional Liability: Plaintiff, Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigman, Mackauf, Bloom & Rubinowitz
Michael S. Bogin ’89, Environmental, Environmental Litigation, Sive Paget & Riesel, PC, New York
David W. Brand ’75, Personal Injury Plaintiff: General, Personal Injury Defense: General, Brand Glick & Brand, P.C., Garden City
Kirk L. Brett ’91, Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights, Duval & Stachenfeld LLP, New York
Joseph M. Brettschneider ’86, Family Law, Brettschneider & Brettschneider, Huntington
Craig Brown ’93, Real Estate, Duval & Stachenfeld LLP, New York
Loren H. Brown ’92, Civil Litigation Defense, DLA Piper LLP (US), New York
Nancy Burner ’88, Elder Law, Estate Planning & Probate, Estate & Trust Litigation, Burner, Smith & Associates, LLP, Setauket
Daniel P. Buttafuoco ’81, Personal Injury Plaintiff: General, Personal Injury Plaintiff: Medical Malpractice, Daniel P. Buttafuoco & Associates, Woodbury
Konrad L. Cailteux ’85, Class Action/Mass Torts, Personal Injury Defense: Products, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York
Hugh W. Campbell ’82, Personal Injury Plaintiff: General, Rodman and Campbell PC, Bronx
Michael B. Carlinsky ’89, Business Litigation, Intellectual Property Litigation, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, New York
Thomas F. Cerussi ’88, Personal Injury Defense: Products, Personal Injury Defense: General, Cerussi & Spring PC, White Plains
Michael A. Cerussi, Jr. ’76, Personal Injury Defense: Products, Environmental Litigation, Business Litigation, Cerussi & Spring PC, White Plains
Gregory H. Chertoff ’94, Construction Litigation, Construction/Surety, Peckar & Abramson, New York
Frank J. Ciano ’90, Personal Injury Defense: Products, International, Business Litigation, Goldberg Segalla LLP, White Plains
Deborah Clark Weintraub ’86, Securities Litigation, Class Action/Mass Torts, Health Care, Whatley, Drake & Kallas, LLC, New York
Harris N. Cogan ’78, Securities Litigation, Business Litigation, Blank Rome LLP, New York
Edward T. Cooper ’88, Personal Injury Plaintiff: Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury Plaintiff: General, Personal Injury Plaintiff: Products, Torgan & Cooper, P.C., New York
Ilene S. Cooper ’79, Estate & Trust Litigation, Estate Planning & Probate, Farrell Fritz, P.C., Uniondale
George A. Davis ’90, Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, New York
Lile H. Deinard ’74, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Litigation, International, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, New York
Edmund M. Emrich ’81, Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights, Herrick, Feinstein LLP, New York
Stephen G. Epstein ’75, Real Estate, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, New York
Julie R. Evans ’86, Civil Litigation Defense, Class Action/Mass Torts, Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker LLP, New York
Samuel J. Ferrara ’94, Family Law, General Litigation, Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eisman, Greenberg, Formato & Einiger, LLP, Lake Success
Michael E. Foreman ’85, Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights, Haynes and Boone, LLP, New York
Jordan C. Fox ’85, Class Action/Mass Torts, Personal Injury Plaintiff: Products, Belluck & Fox LLP, New York
Adam H. Friedman ’93, Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights, Olshan Grundman Frome Rosenzweig & Wolosky LLP, New York
Judith D. Fryer ’75, Securities & Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, New York
Michael B. Gallub ’86, Personal Injury Defense: Products, General Litigation, Class Action/Mass Torts, Herzfeld & Rubin PC, New York
Ronnie Gouz ’81, Family Law, Berman Bavero Frucco & Gouz P.C., White Plains
Charles S. Gucciardo ’82, Personal Injury Plaintiff: Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury Plaintiff: General, Construction Litigation, The Gucciardo Law Firm, New York
Jeffrey M. Haber ’88, Securities Litigation, Bernstein Liebhard LLP, New York
Heidi Harris ’91, Family Law, Sheresky Aronson Mayefsky & Sloan, LLP, New York
Seth A. Harris ’87, Personal Injury Plaintiff: General, Personal Injury Plaintiff: Medical Malpractice, Construction Litigation, Burns & Harris Esqs., New York
Eric M. Hellige ’80, Securities & Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business/Corporate, Pryor Cashman LLP, New York
Neil E. Herman ’85, Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights, Business/Corporate, Business Litigation, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, New York
Scott M. Himes ’78, Business Litigation, Securities Litigation, General Litigation, Stillman, Friedman & Shechtman, P.C., New York
Alan Kaminsky ’83, Personal Injury Defense: General, Construction Litigation, Civil Litigation Defense, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP, New York
Richard S. Kanowitz ’92, Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, New York
Erik J. Kapner ’75, Personal Injury Defense: Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury Defense: Products, Martin Clearwater & Bell LLP, New York
Rebecca M. Katz ’90, Securities Litigation, Bernstein Liebhard LLP, New York
Adam T. Klein ’90, Employment Litigation: Plaintiff, Class Action/Mass Torts, Outten & Golden LLP, New York
Spencer D. Klein ’89, Mergers & Acquisitions, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, New York
Robert Komitor ’80, Class Action/Mass Torts, Personal Injury Plaintiff: Products, Personal Injury Plaintiff: General, Levy Phillips & Konigsberg LLP, New York
Jeff S. Korek ’86, Personal Injury Plaintiff: General, Personal Injury Plaintiff: Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury Plaintiff: Products, Gersowitz Libo & Korek, P.C., New York
Andrew A. Kress ’79, Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights, Kaye Scholer LLP, New York
Bernard A. Krooks ’85, Elder Law, Estate Planning & Probate, Tax, Littman Krooks LLP, White Plains
Robert J. Kurre ’91, Elder Law, Estate Planning & Probate, Robert J. Kurre & Associates PC, Great Neck
Richard G. Leland ’74, Environmental, Environmental Litigation, Land Use/Zoning, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, New York
Jeffrey A. Lieberman ’85, Employee Benefits/ERISA, Clifford Chance LLP, New York
Judith A. Livingston ’79, Personal Injury Plaintiff: Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury Plaintiff: General, Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore, New York
Victoria A. Lombardi ’80, Personal Injury Defense: Medical Malpractice, Silverson, Pareres & Lombardi, LLP, New York
D. Carl Lustig, III ’78, Personal Injury Plaintiff: General, Personal Injury Plaintiff: Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury Plaintiff: Products, Arye Lustig & Sassower P.C., New York
Richard T. Marooney ’94, Business Litigation, King & Spalding LLP, New York
Kenneth Mauro ’80, Appellate, Mauro Goldberg & Lilling LLP, Great Neck
James J. McCrorie ’92, Personal Injury Plaintiff: General, Fanning & McCrorie, P.C., Jericho
Charles J. McEvily ’73, Family Law, Collaborative Law, DaSilva, Hilowitz & McEvily LLP, Garden City
Raymond T. Mellon ’81, Construction Litigation, Real Estate, Zetlin & De Chiara LLP, New York
Janis M. Meyer ’81, Business Litigation, International, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, New York
Saul P. Morgenstern ’81, Antitrust Litigation, Business Litigation, Intellectual Property Litigation, Kaye Scholer LLP, New York
Terry A. Myers ’74, Business/Corporate, Business Litigation, International, Gibbons P.C., New York
Larren M. Nashelsky ’91, Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights, Morrison & Foerster LLP, New York
Andrew L. Oringer ’84, Employee Benefits/ERISA, Employment & Labor, Tax, Ropes & Gray LLP, New York
Michael D. Patrick ’78, Immigration, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP, New York
Barry J. Peek ’77, Employment & Labor, Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C., New York
Rona L. Platt ’94, Insurance Coverage, Appellate, Congdon Flaherty O'Callaghan, Reid, Donlon, Travis & Fishlinger, Uniondale
Marc D. Powers ’80, Securities Litigation, Business Litigation, Criminal Defense: White Collar, Baker Hostetler LLP, New York
Alan D. Reitzfeld ’76, Aviation, Information Technology/Outsourcing, Holland & Knight LLP, New York
Eliot L. Relles ’94, Securities & Corporate Finance, Banking, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, New York
Keith Ian Rieger ’79, Family Law, Barrocas & Rieger, LLP, Garden City
Karen Robarge ’86, Family Law, Sheresky Aronson Mayefsky & Sloan, LLP, New York
Brad D. Rose ’85, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Litigation, Entertainment & Sports, Pryor Cashman LLP, New York
Andrew B. Roth ’75, Health Care, Non-Profit, Mergers & Acquisitions, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., New York
Ben B. Rubinowitz ’81, Personal Injury Plaintiff: General, Personal Injury Plaintiff: Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury Plaintiff: Products, Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigman, Mackauf, Bloom & Rubinowitz, New York
Donald L. Sapir ’75, Employment & Labor, Employee Benefits/ERISA, Sapir & Frumkin LLP, White Plains
Neal S. Schelberg ’79, Employee Benefits/ERISA, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York
Brad Eric Scheler ’77, Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, New York
Steven R. Schlesinger ’76, Business/Corporate, Business Litigation, Jaspan Schlesinger Hoffman LLP, Garden City
Nathan Schwed ’81, Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights, Zeichner Ellman & Krause LLP, New York
Mark J. Seelig ’89, Business/Corporate, Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports, Meister Seelig & Fein LLP, New York
Richard M. Steigman ’97, Personal Injury Plaintiff: General, Personal Injury Plaintiff: Medical Malpractice, Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigman, Mackauf, Bloom & Rubinowitz, New York
Scott D. Talmadge ’89, Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights, Kaye Scholer LLP, New York
Evan Torgan ’82, Personal Injury Plaintiff: Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury Plaintiff: General, Personal Injury Plaintiff: Products, Torgan & Cooper, P.C., New York
Norton L. Travis ’77, Health Care, Business/Corporate, Garfunkel Wild & Travis, PC, Great Neck
Cheryl P. Vollweiler ’88, Civil Litigation Defense, Environmental Litigation, Insurance Coverage, Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP, Hawthorne
Brian D. Waller ’93, Criminal Defense, Criminal Defense: White Collar, Business Litigation, Simon & Partners LLP, New York
Linda J. Wank ’90, Estate Planning & Probate, Non-Profit, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, New York
Gregg M. Weiss ’81, Estate Planning & Probate, Gardner Weiss & Rosenblum, LLP, New York
Perry Weitz ’83, Personal Injury Plaintiff: Products, Personal Injury Defense: General, Weitz & Luxenberg, PC, New York
Stephen I. Widlitz ’75, Personal Injury Plaintiff: Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury Plaintiff: General, Widlitz & Stern, P.C., Huntington
Michael D. Zarin ’85, Land Use/Zoning, Environmental Litigation, Environmental, Zarin & Steinmetz, White Plains
Steve Zissou ’82, Criminal Defense, Attorney at Law, Bayside
