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12/11/2025

Warshaw Burstein Announces Election of Thomas Filardo To Serve as Co-Managing Partner With Frederick R. Cummings, Jr.

Warshaw Burstein announces that Partner Thomas Filardo, Chair of Litigation, has joined Frederick R. Cummings, Jr. as Co-Managing Partner effective Dec. 1, 2025. Together they will lead the firm’s continued growth and innovation.

12/03/2025

HARVEY KRASNER GIVES CLE PRESENTATION ON NEGOTIATING CONTRACTS FOR REAL ESTATE

Harvey Krasner gave a Continuing Legal Education presentation on negotiating real estate contracts.

12/08/2025

Chambers Recognizes Warshaw Burstein for Real Estate and Trusts and Estates Practice Groups

Our Real Estate and Trusts & Estates practice groups are recognized in the Chambers New York Spotlight Guide for 2026 for their continued excellence.

Featured Attorneys

Meryl E. Wiener

Ms. Wiener advises financial institutions, investment managers and hedge funds on a broad range of regulatory, compliance, securities, registration, inspection, organizational and structural matters.
Robert Fryd

Since joining the firm in 1981, Mr. Fryd has concentrated his practice on complex commercial litigation.
Michael Zukerman

Mr. Zukerman practices real estate law, concentrating in the areas of real estate secured lending, from both the lender and the borrower side, and real estate development and acquisitions. He has experience in private offerings of securities with emphasis on real estate.
Russell W. Rosen

Mr. Rosen focuses his practice on complex commercial, real estate, partnership and corporate matters, including business litigation.
Marc A. Lavaia

Mr. Lavaia represents clients in a broad range of real estate and corporate transactions across industries. He counsels his clients on mergers, acquisitions and corporate formations, and oversees the expansion of established businesses.
Robert P. Wittes

For more than 50 years Mr. Wittes has concentrated his practice on estate and trust planning and administration, using a variety of techniques to reduce estate and gift taxes and to assure that assets are transferred by his clients to their beneficiaries with minimal cost and delay.
Ally Hack

Mr. Hack is a member of the firm’s real estate and litigation groups.
Sarah A. Steckler

Sarah A. Steckler is a partner in our Trusts and Estates Group.
Felicia S. Ennis

Ms. Ennis has worked on cases involving discrimination, sexual harassment, breach of contract, retaliation, wage/hour laws, family medical leave laws, wrongful discharge, misappropriation of trades secrets, business/shareholder disputes and partnership dissolutions.
Thomas Filardo

Mr. Filardo represents clients in a wide variety of complex commercial matters as both a seasoned litigator and corporate advisor. He takes a hands-on, creative approach and enjoys developing practical strategies to achieve client objectives.
Grant R. Cornehls

Mr. Cornehls has broad experience representing clients in financial services and other industries in litigation, arbitration and regulatory investigations.
Peter L. Lese

Mr. Lese has focused his practice on trusts and estates law since 1988.
Patrick Calella

Patrick Calella practices in the firm’s real estate department negotiating and closing commercial real estate transactions on behalf of purchasers, sellers, joint venture participants, landlords, tenants, borrowers and lenders.
Martin S. Siegel

Mr. Siegel is a partner in our firm’s litigation department. He specializes in complex commercial, business, securities and bankruptcy litigations.
Steve R. Graber

Steve R. Graber is a partner in our Trusts and Estates Group and our Tax Group.
James Anthony Wolff

Mr. Wolff is an experienced corporate and transactional lawyer whose practice focuses primarily on corporate and business counseling, corporate governance, securities, and transactions.
Marvin J. Fortgang

For the past 50 years, Mr. Fortgang has practiced real estate law, concentrating his practice in the areas of real estate secured lending and commercial leasing.
Peter Figdor

Mr. Figdor concentrates his practice in the areas of real estate and banking and finance.
BoBi Ahn

Ms. Ahn specializes in immigration and nationality law and focuses on various corporate and employment related immigration issues and on strategic immigration planning for U.S. and international companies in connection with the international relocation of personnel coming into the U.S.
Kevin M. Hirson

Mr. Hirson has extensive experience representing developers, owners & investors in a wide variety of real estate transactions throughout the U.S. He represents clients in connection with the acquisition, sale, financing, leasing and licensing of real property and remains a corporate advisor to clients.
Bruce H. Wiener

Mr. Wiener has been a practicing lawyer and litigator for over 45 years, and remains actively engaged in all aspects of real estate and general commercial litigation.
Slava Hazin

Mr. Hazin concentrates his practice in commercial and real estate litigation, including trial and appellate practice.
Chaya R. Shafran

Ms. Shafran has been involved in the practice of real estate law for over 35 years.
Frederick R. Cummings, Jr.

Mr. Cummings has in depth experience in a wide variety of corporate and business matters for individuals and both publicly and privately owned entities, ranging from start ups, to family held, to Fortune 500 clients, involving jurisdictions across the United States and around the world.
Harvey I. Krasner

Mr. Krasner has over 30 years of broad based experience in complex transactional real estate matters advising developers, owners and investors in all aspects of real estate transactions, including purchases, and sales and financing.
Alan M. Pollack

Mr. Pollack is a partner in the firm's litigation department. His practice focuses on federal and state court commercial and civil litigation, including business disputes, partnership dissolutions, class and shareholder derivative actions, stock fraud and manipulation cases, wage and hour and labor and employment matters.
Marshall N. Lester

Mr. Lester has over 50 years experience in the corporate arena, concentrating primarily in the areas of joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions (both domestic and international), corporate finance and securities law matters.
Allison Simmons Prouty

Ms. Simmons Prouty concentrates her practice in real estate law.

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