Legal Alerts

Two amendments passed the legislative session: one requires a defendant to choose before trial whether to take the liability offset of the monetary amount of the settlement or the still unknown liability percentage of the settled defendant to be determined by the jury; the other amendment permits a plaintiff to recover directly against a third party defendant found to be liable to the defendant in certain actions. 

He or she who hesitates [may be] lost or laches may result in dire consequences.

Clients want files closed, efficiently, effectively and as soon as possible. 

Additional insight from attorneys across the country about what being professionally generous means.

Insight from attorneys across the country about what being professionally generous means.

As a lawyer, we can use our time and talents to help those in our profession as well as those we represent.

Social media, if used effectively, can generate business contacts.

The point is just as important today as it was almost 30 years ago.  Want to keep clients?  Want to get clients?  Connect with them personally.  Emails are great.  Phone calls are fine.  Personal contact trumps them all. 

Congratulations to Hurwitz & Fine, P.C. Members Michael F. Perley and Dan D. Kohane who have been sworn in as Mediators and Neutrals for the United States District Court, Western District of New York.

Clients want and need their lawyers to understand their business. Do not guess at it. Learn it and know it.

A new law passed just last week, which repeals religious exemptions to New York’s otherwise mandatory vaccination requirements for children entering schools and daycares throughout the state.  We've provided clarification on the details of this law and what it may mean to you.

"Adjusting Just Fine--attorneys enjoy the intellectual challenges of appellate law. And new specifics for briefs and filing seem like a natural progression" in June 17, 2019 Buffalo Law Journal.

Bar and defense organizations play an important role in developing relationships and networks and in giving you opportunity to publish articles and present to your peers and to others.

Defense counsel deal with a myriad of issues in tort and premises liability cases which lead to undue delays. However, there is one type of delay that can seem to progress eternally slow, one where the named plaintiff has died.

Networking: It’s all about relationships. Networks built on friendship, on common areas of practice, on similar backgrounds or personal interests, THEY are critically important for the development of business.

Write and publish. If you do so, a number of wonderful things begin to happen.  People read what you write.  They are impressed that you have been published.  You have demonstrated subject matter expertise.  You begin being known as a thought leader.  Someone who reads what you have written may have a matter to refer to you on that self-same subject.  An organization that sees your article may contact you and ask you to speak at their next conference on that subject or one similar.

Attorney Anastasia M. McCarthy was presented with the Excellence in Law award by The Daily Record in the category of Up & Coming Attorneys on June 6, 2019. Winners were selected based on their dedication to the legal profession, their commitment to their clients and the community, and letters of reference.

To be a great marketer, you need to have a very important quality: responsiveness.