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Geoffrey A. Bass
Paul T. Darcy
Alvin M. Feder
Martin J. Hertz
Jonathan D. Honig
Leonard A. Isaacson
Ronald S. Itzler
Gabriel Kaszovitz
Saul Kaszovitz
Larry Miller
R. Jeffrey More
Howard I. Rhine
Bruce Robins
Irving Rothstein
David Sack
Ezio Scaldaferri
Murray L. Skala
Marcel Weber
GEOFFREY A. BASS
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Mr. Bass's expertise includes broad experience in a variety of corporate, commercial and real
estate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and commercial and residential real estate
acquisition, leasing and financing. Mr. Bass has broad experience in all phases of business
transactions, including the organization and financing of corporations, partnerships, and joint
ventures. Before joining the firm in July 1991, Mr. Bass was a partner in the firm of Blodnick,
Abramowitz, Newman & Bass and its predecessor from 1987 until July 1991, prior to which Mr.
Bass was a partner in the firm of Murray, Hollander, Sullivan & Bass from its founding in 1978
until 1987. Upon graduating from law school, Mr. Bass joined the firm of Lovejoy, Wasson,
Lundgren & Ashton, where he was employed as an associate from 1974 until 1978.
Mr. Bass received his undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester in 1968, where he
was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and his law degree from the Harvard Law School in 1974.
PAUL T. DARCY
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Mr. Darcy has extensive experience in all aspects of corporate, securities and business
transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, public and private offerings of securities,
secured and unsecured corporate finance transactions, and bankruptcy reorganization. Mt. Darcy
graduated summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Albany in 1992, where he
was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and received his J.D. degree cum laude in 1995 from the State
University of New York at Buffalo School of Law, where he was a member of the Buffalo Law
Review. Mr. Darcy was previously associated with the firm of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan from
1998 to 2004, and with the firm of Kronish, Lieb, Wiener & Hellman from 1995 to 1998.
ALVIN M. FEDER
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Mr. Feder's major areas of practice are personal injury,
medical malpractice and commercial jury and non-jury trials in the State and
Federal Courts, as well as preparation of the appellate briefs and argument
of appeals. Mr. Feder also participates in mediation and arbitration. A
co-founder of the firm with Gabriel Kaszovitz, Mr. Feder received his
undergraduate degree from Columbia College in 1952, and his law degree from
Columbia Law School in 1954.
MARTIN J. HERTZ
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Mr. Hertz's expertise includes extended and wide experience in litigation in state and federal
lower courts and appellate courts in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as
well as practice in state administrative agencies, including New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
and Connecticut Insurance Departments, and federal agencies, including the SEC, FDA, FTC,
and NLRB. Mr. Hertz is also an experienced practitioner in real estate, commercial and
corporate transactions, having represented the issuer in a public offering of a drug company in
1963 and a public offering of a mortgage real estate investment trust (a Mortgage REIT) in 1969,
as well as in Surrogate, wills and trusts and estate planning.
Mr. Hertz received his B.A. from New York University in 1950, his LL.B. from Harvard Law
School in 1953, and his LL.M. in Trade Regulation from New York University Law School in
1958. Mr. Hertz was previously a partner of Friedlander Gaines (1971 – 1989) and Morrison
Cohen Singer & Weinstein (1989 – 2003).
JONATHAN D. HONIG
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Mr. Honig specializes in all aspects of litigation, arbitration and mediation, including, securities,
real estate and construction, bankruptcy and international matters and has tried many cases. Mr. Honig has extensive experience in employment law issues, including issues related to age, gender and race discrimination as well as retaliation claims. Mr.
Honig has served as an AAA and Eastern District of New York arbitrator and as a mediator for
the New York State Supreme Court, New York County. He is admitted to practice in the district
courts of New York and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and has appeared in the United
States District Courts for the Central District of California, the Western District of Pennsylvania
and the District of Rhode Island.
Mr. Honig has published a number of articles relating to real estate and bankruptcy, including
"Adherence to Plain Meaning Rule Slips on Issue of Legal Fees in Bankruptcy", New York Law
Journal, March 26, 1999. He has also been a speaker on international arbitration at an ABA
conference on dispute resolution, and was included in the Euromoney listing of the world's
leading experts and lawyers in commercial arbitration. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Honig was
a partner of Wolf Block Schorr & Solis-Cohen, LLP. Mr. Honig graduated from Cornell
University in 1978 and from the University of Chicago Law School in 1982.
LEONARD A. ISAACSON
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Mr. Isaacson specializes in real estate, consumer and commercial banking, and estates. He
supervises the loan closing department for one of the lending institutions represented by the firm
and has extensive experience in drafting consumer and commercial loan documents. He also has
extensive experience in land subdivision law, having represented numerous subdivision
developers before regulatory agencies and in the preparation of the required filings for the
Department of State of the State of New York and the Office of Interstate Land Sales (HUD).
Before joining the firm in 1983, Mr. Isaacson was a partner in the firm of Schiffren, Schnapper
& Isaacson from 1964 to 1983, where he concentrated on the same areas of practice. Mr.
Isaacson is a member of the Board of Directors of the New York City Chapter of the Association
for the Help of Retarded Children. He is active in various other philanthropic and charitable
organizations.
Mr. Isaacson received his bachelor's degree in business from the City College of New York in
1949. He received his LLB degree from New York University in 1951.
GABRIEL KASZOVITZ
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Gabriel Kaszovitz's major areas of practice are corporate, commercial, and real estate. A
founding partner in the firm, he started his legal career as a staff attorney with the Securities and
Exchange Commission. Mr. Kaszovitz has broad experience in real estate transactions,
corporate and other business transactional work, leasing, bankruptcy, UCC, general corporate
matters, and commercial law and estate planning. Mr. Kaszovitz has also been primarily
responsible for the conduct of the firm's securities practice, including the preparation of
registration statements for public offerings and documents for the private placement of securities,
and has also been primarily responsible for the compliance by the firm's clients that are publicly
held companies with federal, state, and regulatory laws and rules and reporting requirements. He
has an additional specialty in the area of estate administration and estate planning.
Mr. Kaszovitz received his undergraduate education and his law degree from Columbia
University in 1954. He is admitted to practice in both the State of New York and the State of
New Jersey.
SAUL KASZOVITZ
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Mr. Kaszovitz' expertise includes broad experience in a variety of securities, corporate and real
estate transactions, including all aspects of the public and private offerings of securities, mergers
and acquisitions and commercial and residential real estate acquisitions. Mr. Kaszovitz is also
actively involved in all areas of corporate law, including the formation and maintenance of
corporate, partnership and limited liability entities.
Mr. Kaszovitz received his BA in political science with honors from Yeshiva College in 1990,
and he graduated from Cardozo Law School in 1993, where he was a Berg Scholar. Mr.
Kaszovitz is admitted to practice in the states of New York and New Jersey.
LARRY MILLER
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Mr. Miller has experience in both litigation and corporate matters, with special emphasis on
matters related to intellectual property. Mr. Miller also has experience in employment law issues, including sexual harassment and age discrimination, and served as a mediator for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He graduated with honors in Classics from Princeton
University in 1975, from which he also earned a Ph.D. in 1984 in Near Eastern Studies. Mr.
Miller received his law degree in 1993 from New York University School of Law, where he
served as Articles Editor for the NYU Journal of International Law & Politics. Mr. Miller is
admitted to practice in the states of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
R. JEFFREY MORE
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Mr. More's area of specialty involves all phases of litigation, both corporate and civil, including
appellate courts and arbitration panels. Mr. More's litigation experience includes dispute
resolution - commercial corporate, and securities litigation and arbitrations. Mr. More received
his bachelor of arts degree from Columbia University in 1972 and his law degree from New
York University in 1975. While at law school, he was the Editor for the New York University
Law Review. Mr. More was a partner with the law firm of Coleman, Rhine & Goodwin LLP
until March 2001.
HOWARD I. RHINE
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Mr. Rhine's practice encompasses all areas of litigation and dispute resolution - commercial
corporate and securities litigation and arbitrations, in which he specializes, as well as advising
corporate and business clients on U.S. and international commercial matters, including a large
clientele that is Israel based. He received his undergraduate degree from Yeshiva University in
1960 and his law degree from New York University in 1963 (Order of the Coif; Public Law
Editor, 1962 Annual Survey of American Law.) He then served as law clerk to U.S. District
Judge Charles H. Tenney, from 1964-1966.
Mr. Rhine began his career in private practice at the firm of Zimet Harris Moss & Friedman,
where he was the partner in charge of the litigation group, and in 1981 was a founding partner of
the firm of Coleman, Rhine & Goodwin LLP, where he continued his litigation and commercial
law practice until joining our firm in March 2001.
BRUCE ROBINS
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Mr. Robins specializes in all aspects of litigation, including mortgage foreclosures. He has done
extensive research for the firm on complicated legal questions. Mr. Robins received his BA in
business from Hofstra University in 1985 and he graduated with honors from the Hofstra
University School of Law in 1988. Mr. Robins is admitted to practice in the states of New York,
New Jersey, and Connecticut.
IRVING ROTHSTEIN
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Mr. Rothstein's practice is concentrated in corporate and business transactions, including matters
involving the public and private offerings of securities, proxy statements and reporting and other
filing requirements under the federal securities laws, mergers and acquisitions, and financing of
public and private entities.
Mr. Rothstein received his undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Brooklyn College in
1985 and his J.D. degree from Harvard University in 1988, where he was an editor of the
Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. Following his law school graduation, Mr. Rothstein
was associated with the firm of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan until 1991, followed by the firms
Nathan & Brecher LLP until 1992, and Heller, Horowitz & Feit, P.C. until 2003.
DAVID SACK
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David Sack is a senior litigation associate, with diverse experience in all phases of civil litigation
matters in the state and federal courts. Prior to joining the firm he was a litigation associate at
the New York office of Torys, and at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. Mr. Sack received his
undergraduate degree in economics summa cum laude from Yeshiva University in 1992, and his
law degree from Columbia University School of Law in 1995, where he served on the Columbia
Journal of Law and Social Problems. He is the co-author of the article Litigation Stemming from
Hiring Decisions, published in the New York Law Journal, and the author of Recent Changes to
the Rules Governing Pre-Trial Discovery published in the North American Corporate Lawyer.
Mr. Sack is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of New York.
EZIO SCALDAFERRI
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Mr. Scaldaferri specializes in all phases of litigation, in all forums, including appellate courts and
arbitration panels. Mr. Scaldaferri has extensive litigation experience arising in many areas of
the law and different industries. Mr. Scaldaferri received his liberal arts degree from Fordham
University in 1977 and his law degree from the same school in 1980. While at law school, he
was the Commentary Editor for the Fordham Law Review. Prior to joining Feder, Kaszovitz,
Isaacson, Weber & Skala in 1987 he was associated with Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
from 1980 to 1984 and with Botein, Hays & Sklar from 1984 to 1987.
MURRAY L. SKALA
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Mr. Skala's specialties include transactional matters and civil litigation. He concentrates on
counseling a number of the firm's large business clients on an almost daily basis.
Mr. Skala has been associated with the firm since 1972. He became a partner in 1976. Prior to
his association with the firm, he was employed by the United States Department of Justice from
1971 to 1972. He received his undergraduate degree from City University of New York in 1967
and his law degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1971.
MARCEL WEBER
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Mr. Weber's practice covers all phases of civil litigation, real estate, estates, and estate planning,
as well as commercial and corporate matters. His clients include the State of
Israel, which he represents on estate matters in the United States.
Before joining the firm in 1974, Mr. Weber was in private practice, specializing in the same
areas. Mr. Weber received his undergraduate degree from Yeshiva University in 1956 and his
JD from New York University Law School in 1960. He is Chairman of the Board of the Union
of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, and is also active in other communal
organizations.
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