Larchmont Business Lawyers

Our firm handles legal matters in the following practice areas:

Sean J. McGowan is a partner in Kaufman McGowan PLLC, Long Island’s Corporate & Securities Law Firm™ and Corporate & Securities Counsel to the Cannabis Industry™. He is a leading corporate cannabis lawyer in New York and the USA and represents emerging growth, middle market and public companies and investment firms in their corporate, securities, financing, borrowing, merger & acquisition and other legal matters. Mr. McGowan is: - President of the Columbian Lawyers' Association of Suffolk County. - Secretary of the Confederation of Columbian Lawyers of New York State. - Member of the New York State Bar Association and its Cannabis Law Section. -...

Engaged in private law practice in New York and Connecticut 1987-1997 and 2019 to date. Served as District Court Judge (1998), County Court Judge (1999-2018), Acting Family Court Judge (1999-2018) and Acting Supreme Court Justice (2006-2018) in Suffolk County, New York. Author of over 250 judicial reported and published decisions, official and unofficial, in multiple areas of the law.

Corporate, Securities and Business Law Board Advisory Services Compliance/Governance/Best Practices Regulatory Representation Internal Investigations Over 20 years experience in business, legal and management positions, most recently as Executive Vice President and US Corporate and Securities Counsel of a Fortune 50 company, with significant management, supervisory and oversight responsibilities in the areas of risk assessment, strategic planning, corporate governance, legal and regulatory compliance, mergers and acquisitions, privacy issues, and all aspects of corporate, securities, intellectual property and employment law, as well as primary liaison with Management Board and key members of senior management.

Mr. Palermo has over 35 years of diversified business experience including 25 years in the practice of Law. His professional career began at The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., where he was a middle market lending officer for several years. After completing his MBA at Adelphi University, Mr. Palermo left Chase to take the position of Vice President , Finance for The Neil Automotive Group. He then returned to school full time on a full scholarship, earning his JD from Hofstra Law in December, 1993. Combining his business experience with his law degree, Mr. Palermo practiced corporate law at the New...

Cassandra H. P. Donovan is an accomplished Attorney with a comprehensive background in complex civil litigation. She utilizes her diverse professional background and legal experience to represent clients in various phases of the litigation process. Ms. Donovan’s practice currently focuses on business litigation, trusts and estate, family law, civil litigation and insurance defense. Ms. Donovan has an extensive complex litigation background. For more than a decade, Ms. Donovan defended and managed an extensive caseload, on behalf of major corporate clients, in the Upstate New York Asbestos Litigation. Furthermore, Ms. Donovan has successfully defended officers and directors of housing...

Issac focuses his practice on civil litigation, consumer bankruptcy, commercial collections, and judgment enforcement. Issac also represents clients in a variety of real estate matters, creditors' and debtors' rights, and helping clients plan for the need of advance directives, healthcare proxies, powers of attorney, and wills.

Issac received his law degree from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2015 where he was the editor in chief of the Cardozo Public Law, Policy, and Ethics Journal, and received the Jacob Burns Medal for unusual achievement in various law school academic/professional activities. He also received a Certificate in Bioethics and Medical Humanities...

Madison A. Gregg is an Associate at Miller Shah LLP, based in the firm's New York office. Madi earned her J.D. from the University of Chicago in 2023, where she served as Vice President of the Law Students Association. During law school, she worked with the Exoneration Project Clinic, assisting with Actual Innocence petitions in Illinois. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University, with minors in Psychology, Classical Civilizations, and Law & Society. While at Cornell, she was a Writing Tutor with the Knight Institute and a Lewis J. Perl Fellow and Groos Family Fellow...

I practice Tax litigation litigating Federal tax cases in the Tax Court, Federal Court and NYS tax matters.

Worked for the Internal Revenue Service Chief Counsel's Office in New York for 14 years litigating tax cases in Tax Court; and also worked in the IRS Criminal Division of Chief Counsel's Office. After leaving the Chief Counsel's Office, I have been in private practice.

Education: Graduated Washington University, St. Louis, business school and law school. Graduated NYU Tax Program and received an LLM in Taxation.

Mark Xiao is an Associate at Miller Shah LLP, based in the firm's New York office. Mark graduated from the University of Washington School of Law in June 2020, where he served as Executive Comments Editor for the Washington International Law Journal and was a Research Associate at the Technology Law and Public Policy Clinic. During law school, Mark also clerked for two Administrative Law Judges at the Social Security Administration and interned with a private investment management firm. Before pursuing his legal career, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a minor in Business from the University of...

I am an experienced lawyer in the areas of Private International Law, Russian and European Commercial Law, investments and doing business in Russia, Europe and other countries of the former USSR. I also advise clients on Contract law, company formation, dispute resolution and international arbitration and litigation in Russia, other former USSR countries and Europe. I graduated from the MGIMO (University) Law School - Moscow State University of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, 1988-1993, and hold Master Degree in Russian Civil, Commercial and Private International Law. Further education: - MGIMO University, 1993 - 1996, Advanced legal...

Mr. Westenhoefer is an attorney admitted to practice law in the state of New York. In 1997, he joined the U.S. Air Force, and in the years that followed, studied the Russian language at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and lived and worked in Japan. As part of his regular duties as an airborne cryptologic linguist, he was a computer systems operator, a UNIX-based systems administrator, and a security manager in a sensitive compartmented information facility. He developed and maintained resources on his squadron’s classified intranet, supervised and trained individuals on computer systems, and revised the training program...

HAROLD A. STEUERWALD, LLC., Bellport, New York 11713 January 2004 to Present PARTNER TO THE FIRM OF AUGUSTINE & STEUERWALD, LLP. June 1995 to December 2003 DEPUTY TOWN ATTORNEY, Town of Riverhead, New York February 2006 to February 2010 DEPUTY TOWN ATTORNEY, Town of Brookhaven, New York October 2002 to February 2006 SENIOR ASSISTANT TOWN ATTORNEY, Town of Brookhaven, New York September 1998 to October 2002 ASSISTANT TOWN ATTORNEY, Town of Brookhaven, New York January 1998 to March 1991 October 1993 to September 1998 VILLAGE ATTORNEY, Village of Patchogue, New York June 2000 to February 2004 ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY, COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, New York March 1991 to October 1993

I am an Immigration Attorney in NYC, that assists businesses, individuals and families with their U.S. immigration needs.

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