I am a lawyer with more than twenty five years experience. I have been admitted in New York, Washington, D.C. and a number of federal courts. I have handled matters outside those jurisdictions in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, California and Massachusetts. I have also been lead counsel for matters in the Bahamas and Germany. During the 1960s I was active in the Civil Rights movement as a member of C.O.R.E. doing the voter registration of impoverished African-Americans. Some of my other clients have included large and small business such as Twin County Steel, Inc., Brooklyn Welding Co., Inc., and W.R. Grace. In 1987, at Lybia’s request I was licensed by the U. S. Treasury as the attorney for the nation of Lybia, for matters in the U.S.My experience and expertise as a lawyer includes corporate governance, fiduciary responsibility, contracts, trademarks, the constitution, civil rights, employment, torts, trial advocacy and criminal defense. Some of that which has been most visible are high profile “white collar crime” and “organized crime” defenses. Otherwise I have been and am in the media as a legal commentator on Fox, CNN, MSNBC and Court TV/Tru TV. Also, I acted for petroleum traders Chem Oil Industries and the Crispin companies, in the eighties. In the oil and gas arena I performed a number of functions including, but not limited to, being the attorney for Denis barn who was a VP at Mobil who rose to be a member of the board of Mobil of the Orient.I served for several years as a committee Vice Chairman for the Trial Techniques Committee of the Tort and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association, and I served for two (2) years as Chairman of the Banking Law Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association. Presently, and for more than twenty (20) years, I have been an Adjunct Professor at the Hofstra University School of Law teaching the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (N.I.T.A.) Course “Trial Techniques.” When he was a New York State Senator, I was a senior advisor to Gov. David A. Paterson. For more than twenty (20) years I served as a member of the Nassau County Democratic Judicial Screening Committee. I served as a member of the Board of Directors of the United Service Organization (“USO”) of Greater New York. I presently serve both as a Commissioner of the Board of Zoning Appeals for the City of Long Beach, New York and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Concerned Citizens for Roslyn Youth. Regarding discrimination matters as an outside counsel, I successfully defended the Times Mirror Co. and its subsidiary Newsday, and the Nassau County Board of Elections. As a plaintiff’s attorney, I successfully prosecuted a number of discrimination law suits and, in 2008, handled an action against NYS’s Roslyn school district which resulted in that school district adopting its first an anti-discrimination policy in its entire history. Other enjoyable cases were defeating Heublein when it claimed that my client’s trademark, “Club Beer,” infringed on their use of the term Club. Another was defeating a landlord and H.U.D. in their efforts to wrongly evict impoverished, but very hard working, tenants. Perhaps the most satisfying was years ago when I resoundingly defeating Cravath, Swaine and Moore after one of its lawyers tried to intimidate me. Two well publicized criminal defense cases were: 1) my successful defense of, Roland Davis, a member of the Board of Directors of the Guardian National Bank, after it was seized by the F.D.I.C. and F.B.I. in June of 1990. Prior to that, in 1988, I successfully defended a now deceased Joseph Gambino in a case referred to as the “AKA Gas Scam Case.”