NYC Civil Law Attorneys
The attorneys at LeBow & Associates, PLLC are committed to serving our clients with outstanding legal representation. We pride ourselves on our trial skills and creative approaches to legal problems of all types. Most of all, we believe we offer legal services with a difference. Plainly put, with James B. LeBow and Daniel Rubenstein representing you, including acting as your New York City discrimination lawyers, you can rest assured that we will care about you and fight to resolve your legal problems. When you are seeking a New York criminal defense attorney, you will be in good hands with LeBow & Associates, PLLC. Below you will find more information about our legal backgrounds. For a New York civil rights attorney you can count on contact:
New York State Trial Litigators and New York City Police Misconduct Attorneys
James B. LeBow
James B. LeBow is an experienced civil rights lawyer in New York City with excellent skills and proven results in more than 100 trials that he has taken to jury verdict in state and federal courts. He is highly regarded as a skilled New York criminal defense lawyer. Mr. LeBow has obtained a number of multimillion dollar verdicts on behalf of his clients. He is fully experienced in all aspects of trial practice, including civil rights, constitutional claims, products liability, medical malpractice, toxic tort, and white collar, business, and corporate crime in New York City. He is one of the top criminal attorneys in New York.
Representative Cases
- One noteworthy decision and Second Circuit Court of Appeals, holding Mail Fraud Statute to be unconstitutionally vague as applied. Decision cited in over 30 law review and other scholarly treaties and articles. Also briefed, argued and one other noteworthy appeals in the Second and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals.
- Obtained significant decisions in Public Employee First Amendment Right Cases, Employment Discrimination, and Federal Fair Housing Act Cases.
- Obtained $30,000,000 judgment for family of woman tragically shot and wounded by illegal handgun. Injuries rendered victim quadriplegic and ultimately resulted in her death.
- Obtained 7.5 million verdict against TNT trucking Inc. and wrongful death action.
- Secured $2.9 million recovery against Suffolk County, New York, on behalf of 29-year-old who was injured and rendered paraplegic and diving accident.
- Received $2.5 million settlement for one-year old child, who sustained second and third degree burns to his face, hands and arms. When a heater exploded in an illegally structured apartment.
- Obtained $1.375 million settlement in federal court for sexually abused foster child.
- Won $2,000,000 judgment for eye injuries to legally blind man.
- Tried numerous cases brought under 42 USC §1983, in United States District Courts, including highly publicized New York City police shooting of innocent cab driver, which settled during trial for $1.5 million; obtained verdict of $1.05 million in New York City police excessive force case; obtain significant settlement (confidential), for plaintiffs in Los Angeles Police Department corruption case, and a high-profile, pattern and practice, this use of deadly force case against Sacramento County, California Sheriff’s Department.
- Won $1.4 million judgment against Coney Island hospital in psychiatric malpractice case.
- Obtained $1,000,000 judgment in favor of motorcyclists against Budget Car Rental.
- Obtained $850,000 for a 15-year-old high school student who sustained injuries to his stomach, pancreas and spleen, during unsupervised weight-training, during his physical education class.
- Secured $800,000 judgment against New York City for injuries sustained by NYPD officer.
- Obtained over $750,000 judgment and wrongful death case involving toxic explosion.
- Received $750,000 for construction worker received multiple leg fractures while performing building demolition work.
- Won $635,000 medical malpractice judgment against New York City Metropolitan hospital and neonatology case.
- Obtained $500,000 verdict from New York City Board of Education for negligent supervision in case involving consensual sex between developmentally delayed youths on school premises.
- Obtained $520,000 judgment and wrongful death, medical malpractice, case for negligent performance of cardiac ablation against the Regents of the University of California.
- Secured judgment of $500,000 on behalf of Railroad employee under the Federal Employers Liability Act.
- Obtained verdict of $450,000 in product liability, elevator case against General Electric Corp.
- Try to verdict federal, white collar criminal cases including charges of mail fraud, money laundering, tax conspiracies, currency law violations and obstruction of justice in various United States District Courts.
- Tried serious felonies as a public defender in both state and federal courts including cases charging murder, and narcotics conspiracies, and continuing criminal enterprises. Secured acquittals and 27 of 43 cases tried to verdict, including 22 murder cases.
Daniel Rubenstein
Experienced attorney who brings a corporate lawyer’s insight to commercial litigation and contract disputes. Several years working on corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and technology licensing, and on securities matters, with specific experience in international business transactions and in the representation of emerging technology companies. Litigation experience including civil rights, employment discrimination, and constitutional cases as well as commercial matters.
Representative Transactions
Corporate Transactions
- Performed substantial research on reverse shell mergers in order to advise a manufacturer of rehabilitation devices on whether its proposed reverse shell merger would be advisable and how the transaction should be structured. Drafted acquisition agreement and related documents for the reverse shell merger.
- Drafted joint venture agreement and distribution agreement for a joint venture between an American manufacturer of medical devices and its American distributor.
- Drafted detailed letter of intent for an American manufacturer of medical devices’ sale of its distribution rights for the Middle East and North Africa to a United Arab Emirates-based company.
- Assisted a Japanese software company seeking to enter into a joint venture with a French software company, redrafting a substantive portion of the joint venture documents. Revised documents initially intended for a 50%/50% joint venture to protect our client’s interests as the minority partner in a 70%/30% joint venture.
- Drafted joint venture documents, researched issues of corporate law, and conducted due diligence for a $412MM joint venture between a major Japanese conglomerate’s energy division and two multinational energy companies.
- Drafted proxy materials for shareholder voting on the restructuring of a corporate group of child care-related companies in which six affiliated companies were combined into three.
Securities Transactions and Securities Law Projects
- Drafted S-1 registration statement for a company developing technologies for use in the oil industry. Performed substantial research on the oil industry in order to draft the registration statement.
- Drafted private placement memorandum for an independent movie studio. Performed substantial research on the film industry in order to draft the PPM.
- Represented a technology company in connection with a recapitalization transaction involving the redemption, reissuance, and sale of multiple classes of its preferred stock. Researched and drafted memoranda regarding the application of American federal and state securities laws, and drafted and negotiated corporate documentation.
- Advised a securities firm with respect to compliance with American federal and state securities laws. Duties included performing research and drafting memoranda, and assisted in the drafting of a compliance manual for distribution to that firm’s employees.
- Represented a major international law firm seeking to explain Japanese securities law to its English-language clients. Researched applicable laws, and assisted in drafting a document detailing foreign parties’ obligations under Japanese securities law, including many comparisons of Japanese securities law to American securities law.
- Drafted memorandum for a software company considering a stock dividend of third party stock it acquired in an acquisition. Researched and analyzed securities law issues arising with respect to the proposed stock dividend.
- Drafted memorandum for a child care company considering a buyback plan to acquire a significant fraction of its publicly held stock. Researched and analyzed securities law issues arising with respect to the proposed buyback plan.
Admitted to Practice
- New York State Bar (2000)
Education
- Juris Doctor, Harvard Law School (2000). Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Bachelor of Arts in Economics, magna cum laude, Carleton College (1997). Northfield, MN
