Aggressive Representation & Personal Service – “A Courtroom Bulldog Who Won’t be Leashed”

Settlement of $3,450,000.00:

In a motor vehicle case involving a Guttenberg woman who was a driver involved in a head-on collision with a motor vehicle negligently operated by a car dealership's employee resulting in catastrophic injuries. Read More

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Settlement of $8,125,000:

In a motor vehicle case involving a New York man who was a passenger involved in a head-on collision in Cochecton, New York, causing him to sustain fractures and head injuries. Read More

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Settlement of $5,120,000:

After successfully obtaining a jury verdict of $7,400,000 in a case involving a Hackensack cardiologist who sustained catastrophic injuries after being forcefully knocked down as a pedestrian by a motor vehicle. Read More

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Settlement of $3,000,000:

In a case involving an infant who sustained blindness after she bent down to pick up a toy and her left eye contacted a sharp protruding bar from a display rack. Read More

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Jury Verdict of $1,600,000:

In a case involving a man who sustained catastrophic injuries when a vehicle in front of him negligently ran over a tire, propelling it and knocking him off his motorcycle. Read More

Settlement of $1,500,000:

In a case involving a Teaneck woman who was injured when, as a pedestrian, she was struck by a vehicle causing her to become pinned between two vehicles. Read More

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Settlement of $1,800,000 :

in a case involving a Staten Island teenager who sustained injuries after having been shot in his eye with a BB-Gun pellet. Read More

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Settlement of $1,200,000:

In a case involving an East Rutherford woman who was injured when she was struck as a pedestrian lawfully crossing a crosswalk in Hackensack, New Jersey. Read More

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Settlement of $965,000:

In a case involving a Rochelle Park man who sustained injuries while he was working as a forklift operator when the forklift flipped over and pinned him underneath the roll cage. Read More

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Jury Verdict of $750,000:

In compensatory damages plus $10,000 in medical expenses in a case involving a Middlesex County woman who was sexually assaulted by two on-duty uniformed police officers employed by New Jersey Transit Police Read More

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Settlement of $1,300,000:

for four employees of the Township of Howell claiming discrimination and a hostile work environment against the township, the township municipal court, and Court Administrator. Read More

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Settlement of $4,000,000:

In cash and benefits for her client in a lawsuit filed against Bergen County, New Jersey for allowing their employee to force Arnold’s client to perform fellatio on him. Read More

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Confidential 7 figure settlement:

In a suit brought on a behalf of the brother of world renowned playwright Leonard Melfi whose dead body was desiccated and buried in a mass grave. Read More

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MANHATTAN, NY – BIAS SUIT AGAINST UPSCALE JEWELER

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Manhattan, NY – An Orthodox Jewish photographer slapped upscale jewelry retailer Michael C. Fina with a $2.5 million discrimination lawsuit, claiming company bosses – who are non-observant Jews – mocked her religious observances and kosher diet before canning her without cause.
“You think the Finas give a – – – – about Shabbat?” manager Jacklynn Manning allegedly growled to Sandy Rockind when she tried to leave a photo shoot one Friday to be home by sundown to observe Shabbas. “No one cares about your beliefs. Get it done, and then you can leave!” she said.

Rockind, 35, said that the bosses at Fina “were degrading and they were extremely sarcastic, and they were constantly demeaning my beliefs.” They caused her to nearly miss the start of Shabbas a number of times by demanding she finish photographing the retailer’s high-priced baubles for ads, she said.

Her lawsuit claims the Finas gave Rockind grief about religious obligations – even after agreeing in writing when they hired her in April to “allow you time off to observe the Jewish holidays” and Sabbaths, if she made up the time. Rockind also said Steven Fina would “wave non-kosher food in my face” at the company’s Fifth Avenue offices. And, Rockind said, Fina and his brother Jeffrey “made fun of the diamond dealers that came in that were Orthodox. They made comments about their dress, what they could serve them as far as food goes.”
Rockind, of the Upper West Side, was fired Oct. 31 with no explanation about a week after telling bosses she would need to go home earlier on Fridays because of the end of daylight savings time.

Company president George Fina, Steven and Jeffrey’s uncle, said, “Basically, as a Jew, I am totally insulted by these false allegations. The company intends to vigorously defend itself against these spurious claims.”
Rockind’s lawyer, Rosemarie Arnold, said, “The worst discriminators are the ones who are of the same faith, but they don’t practice, because they say, ‘I’m a Jew and I don’t do that, so why does she have to?’ “

posted by Shlomah Shamos @ 12/21/2006 07:47:00 AM

Source: VOS IZ NEIAS