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January 12, 2010 -
The U.S.
Estate Tax has unexpectedly been eliminated for 2010 only |
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The Herzfeld & Rubin Tax and Estates Department is
available to advise clients on the impact of this change on
their estate plans. Please
click here for details. |
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December 14, 2009 - NEW FACE,
NEW SPACE... SAME DOWNTOWN ROOTS |
we are pleased to announce the relocation of our New York
offices on December 14, 2009.
Our new address will be:
125 Broad Street,New York, NY 10004
All of telephone numbers and email addresses will remain the
same:
Main: 212-471-8500 Fax: 212-344-3333
*look for our move on YouTube this January* |
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November 10, 2009 |
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Lawton W. Squires will serve as a panelist and lecturer for
the New York City Bar, Center for CLE on their “Everyday Ethical
Challenges in the Practice of Law” program on Thursday, November
19th, 2009. Mr. Squires portion of the program will focus on
“Avoiding a Disciplinary Complaint”. His presentation will be
based upon his experience as Senior Trial Attorney and
Investigator for the State of New York Grievance Committees in
the 2nd and 11th and 10th Judicial Districts and his experience
in the defense of disciplinary matters following his work with
the Grievance Committees. He has also defended disciplinary
matters involving doctors, dentists, judges and other New York
State licensed professionals in addition to defending medical
malpractice and legal malpractice claims. |
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October 22, 2009 |
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HR Attorneys Named Super Lawyers by New York Times: Congratulations to
Ed Birnbaum,
Jeffrey L. Chase,
Joseph E. Donat,
Michael B. Gallub,
Daniel V. Gsovski,
David B. Hamm,
Michael Hoenig,
James Kaplan,
Mark A. Meyer,
Michael B. Sena,
Miriam Skolnik and
Howard L. Wexler for being named as New York's "Super Lawyers" by The New York Times on October 4, 2009. |
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October 22, 2009 |
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HR Attorneys Named Super Lawyers by New York Times: Congratulations to
Ed Birnbaum,
Jeffrey L. Chase,
Joseph E. Donat,
Michael B. Gallub,
Daniel V. Gsovski,
David B. Hamm,
Michael Hoenig,
James Kaplan,
Mark A. Meyer,
Michael B. Sena,
Miriam Skolnik and
Howard L. Wexler for being named as New York's "Super Lawyers" by The New York Times on October 4, 2009. |
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October 22, 2009 |
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Mark A. Meyer will be the keynote speaker at the annual dinner of the Congress of Romanian-Americans on November 20th at the Hilton Garden Inn in Vienna, Virginia. |
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September 16, 2009 |
Congratulations to our colleague,
Mark A. Meyer, on his selection as Co-Chair of the New York
State Bar Association’s Committee on Public International Law.
The Committee on Public International Law covers issues
involving the structure and conduct of sovereign states,
intergovernmental organizations and multinational corporations.
The New York State Bar Association has a membership of more than
70,000 lawyers, representing every town, city and county in the
state, and is the oldest and largest voluntary state bar
organization in the nation.
Mr. Meyer is also Chair of the Committee on Foreign &
Comparative Law of the New York City Bar Association. |
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September 1, 2009 |
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Our warmest congratulations to our colleague,
Mark A. Meyer, Esq., who
yesterday received the 2008-2009 Dean’s Teaching Award from St. John’s
University School of Law. Professor Meyer teaches “Transactions in
Emerging Markets” at the Law School. The course examines the various
issues faced by attorneys when representing clients in business
transactions in emerging markets, including doctrinal issues such as the
regulation of mergers and acquisitions, the variety of business
organizations recognized by U.S. and foreign jurisdictions, different
aspects of cross-border contracting, how cultural differences affect
business negotiations, how cross-border deals are structured in order to
achieve business goals, and how workflow is managed in a complex
business transaction. |
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August 20, 2009 |
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The latest supplement to the New York Trial Notebook, authored
by firm members Ed Birnbaum
and Carl Grasso, and the Second
Department’s Justice Ariel Belen has just been released. In the
words of the publisher, James Publishing, “New York Trial
Notebook has outgrown its single binder. To solve the problem,
we [James] have added two replacement binders to your regular
annual update,” the cost of which the publisher absorbed. The
book, originally published in 2005, was updated in 2006 and
2008, and is now in its fourth edition. It is a comprehensive
resource for civil trial practitioners trying cases in New York. |
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July 16, 2009 |
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A front page New York Law Journal
article reports that the New York State Supreme Court
dismissed a claim to remove Martin
Evans as the Guardian of an incapacitated woman who was
being financially exploited by her family and others. The Court
lauded Judge Evans and H&R, as his counsel, for recovering
millions of dollars for the incapacitated person. Click
here to read the New York Law Journal’s report of
this decision. |
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April 21, 2009 |
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Lawton W. Squires was honored
by New York Law School at the Spring Faculty Luncheon, on April
21st, 2009, for his twenty years of service as an adjunct
faculty member at his alma mater. |
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March 29, 2009 |
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Mark Meyer will address the Iuliu
Maniu Foundation on March 29th at 3 PM at the 3 West Club in
Manhattan on current political and economic developments in
Moldova. |
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March 17, 2009 |
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Andrew M. Roher, an associate in
the firm's Insurance Defense Practice Group has authored an
article entitled: “New York Insurers Must Now Show Prejudice
to Disclaim for Late Notice”, which has been published in
Winter 2009 Issue of The Defendant, The Defense Association of
New York’s magazine. |
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March 16, 2009 |
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Cary Stewart Sklaren, a member
of the firm’s Litigation, Products Liability and Toxic Tort
Practice Groups and an Adjunct Professor of Law teaching New
York Practice at New York Law School, authored an article
entitled: “New York State Courts and Electronic Discovery,”
which was also published in The Defendant’s Winter 2009 issue |
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February 24, 2009 |
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Mark A. Meyer will address
students at the Graduate School of Fairleigh Dickinson
University in New Jersey on February 24, 2009 at 6 PM on the use
of the rule of law in resolving the Frozen Conflicts. |
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