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Jeffrey A. Horwitz is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Corporate Law, Leisure and Hospitality Law and Real Estate Law. Jeffrey A., who practices law in New York, New York, has been recognized since 2005. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Jeffrey A. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
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...
John A. Pappalardo is a Partner in the Pappalardo Law Group, PLLC, with offices in White Plains, New York and Roseland, New Jersey. The firm is involved in arbitration, mediation, and litigation. John has been an active Arbitrator, Mediator, and litigation attorney for 39 years. John has extensive experience in alternate dispute resolution (ADR), having served as an arbitrator and mediator in over 2,000 domestic and international matters. Throughout his career, John has presided over a broad ...
Sandra Goldstein is a litigation partner in Kirkland’s New York office and a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. She has a broad litigation practice, with a particular focus on securities, M&A, and commercial disputes. Her clients have included 3G Capital, Barnes & Noble, Grubhub, Honeywell, IBM, J. Crew, Novartis, Pitney Bowes, Qualcomm, Six Flags, Starwood Hotels, United Airlines and Xerox. In recent years, Sandra has represented clients in litigation relating to m...
Scott T. Baken is a principal in the White Plains, New York, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. He has participated in numerous wrongful discharge and employment discrimination trials and appellate proceedings in both state and federal courts. Scott also defends employers in administrative proceedings before fair employment practice agencies, lectures and advises clients on subjects such as sexual harassment, reductions in force and the implementation of preventive personnel practices designed to i...
Sean C. Doyle is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Corporate Law. Sean C., who practices law in New York, New York, has been recognized since 2016. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Sean C. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
Jamie Hutchinson is the firm’s Chief Administrative Partner and the partner-in-charge of the New York office. As Chief Administrative Partner, Jamie is responsible for the firm’s finance, business development, information technology, human resources and administrative functions, and assists the managing partner and governing Partners’ Committee with strategic direction and lateral partner acquisitions. Jamie is a member of the firm's Employee Benefits & Executive Compens...
Peter Connors is a distinguished tax professional concentrating his practice on cross-border transactions and tax controversy matters and has more than four decades of experience in related areas of tax law, including financial transactions, corporate reorganizations, renewable energy investments, controversy matters, and providing legal counsel and tax strategies for multinational clients. A portion of Peter’s innovative practice is focused on the intersection of renewable energy and t...
David L. Nagler is a partner in Skadden’s New York office. His real estate practice emphasizes financings, acquisitions and sales, joint ventures, recapitalizations, workouts and development projects. Mr. Nagler advises owners, developers, real estate funds, investors, REITS and lenders. His practice encompasses both counseling traditional real estate clients and representing clients in a wide range of real estate-related businesses. Since 2012, Mr. Nagler’s significant transactio...
Laurie Ruckel concentrates her practice on estate planning, succession planning, estate and trust administration and estate taxation. Her experience encompasses wills and trust agreements, estate and gift tax audits, succession planning for closely held businesses and prenuptial agreements. Laurie's principal clients are high net worth individuals, closely held businesses, real estate clients and executives of publicly held companies. Laurie also lectures on the subject of estate planning and...
Christiana Lazo is a partner in the Trusts and Estates Practice Group of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Christiana concentrates her practice on representing ultra-high net worth individuals, their family offices and closely held businesses in developing and implementing sophisticated domestic and international tax and estate plans. Christiana regularly works with principals of private equity and venture capital funds on their estate planning and also has significant experience counseling global cl...