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Matt Steinberg focuses his practice on employment law, both by advising clients on day-to-day workplace matters and defending clients on all aspects of employment-related litigation. Matt represents clients in various sectors, including technology, media, financial services, real estate, aviation, retail, and hospitality. As a litigator, Matt represents employers in individual and class/collective litigation matters before federal and state courts, administrative agencies, and arbitrators. Ma...

Michelle Murray-Bertrand concentrates her practice on domestic and international franchising and licensing matters. Michelle advises both newly emerging and globally renowned mature domestic and international franchisors in the planning, structure, development and implementation of their franchise programs. Her experience includes drafting and negotiating franchise agreements, master franchise agreements, multi-unit development agreements and other ancillary agreements; securing franchise reg...

Tara L. Vance is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Immigration Law. Tara L., who practices law in New York, New York, has been recognized since 2023. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Tara L. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Daniel Brown is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Energy Law. Daniel, who practices law in New York, New York, has been recognized since 2025. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Daniel is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Peter Allan Atkins is an internationally recognized leading attorney involved in the firm’s corporate and securities practice areas, with extensive experience in the mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance fields. He has represented acquirors (both U.S. and non-U.S.), targets and investment banks in a large number of mergers, acquisitions, takeovers (negotiated and contested), leveraged buyouts, spin-offs and joint ventures. He also counsels clients on a broad range of corpor...

Randi Seigel is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Health Care Law. Randi, who practices law in New York, New York, has been recognized since 2021. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Randi is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Joseph Brasile focuses his practice on complex commercial real estate transactions for owners, developers, institutional and private lenders, borrowers, landlords, and tenants. Joe has broad real estate financing experience with respect to permanent loans, acquisition loans, construction loans, mezzanine loans, note financings, loan sales, and underlying cooperative loans. With regard to distressed assets, Joe handles loan workouts, forbearance agreements, deed-in-lieu of foreclosure agreemen...

Stephen J. Murphy joined Block O’Toole & Murphy as a personal injury trial attorney after a successful career as a homicide prosecutor for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office. Now a managing partner at the firm, Mr. Murphy handles a wide variety of personal injury cases, primarily focusing on serious construction accidents, motor vehicle accidents, and other catastrophic personal injury cases. To date, Mr. Murphy has returned some of New York’s most significant resul...

Paul Sarkozi is Chair of Tannenbaum Helpern's Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. Recognized by Super Lawyers in the New York Times since 2012 as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in the New York Metro area, Paul is a savvy litigator and negotiator who focuses on results for his clients. Equally adept in federal and state court, Paul has nonetheless developed a particularly strong reputation in New York's Commercial Division, the branch o...

Jeffrey B. Bloom is a nationally recognized trial attorney with over four decades of experience representing plaintiffs in complex medical malpractice and personal injury claims . Since joining Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf in 1979, Mr. Bloom has secured numerous multi-million-dollar verdicts and settlements, earning a reputation as one of New York’s most formidable advocates. Mr. Bloom’s case results include a $120 million jury verdic...