Blog Posts in July, 2013

Representing Physicians

“When anytime you represent a physician or anyone who is a licensed individual, you have to understand that whatever happens in the criminal court will certainly have an impact on their ability to maintain their license and to practice medicine, so it’s critical that whatever defense you put forward has to be one that allows them to continue to practice if at all possible. Oftentimes what you’re ...

Defending Prescription Drug Abuse Cases

“What we’ve seen lately is there certainly has been a rise in the prosecution of prescription drug abuse . Oftentimes the calendars in the drug court have an equal number of people who are legally or lawfully initially prescribed drugs as they do illegal or illicit drugs. I think it’s because of the unfortunate ease of getting prescription medication. That is a defense to cases where it’s not ...

Mortgage Fraud

Mortgage fraud , can be as simple as falsifying information from the homeowner who wants to get a mortgage, or it can be professionals in the mortgage industry that on a wholesale basis are falsifying documents and instruments in connection with mortgages. We have seen mortgage fraud prosecution grow exponentially over the state and federal level, but these are defendable cases. Certainly, from a ...

Can Forensic Evidence Always Be Trusted?

“I think unfortunately too many attorneys take for granted forensic evidence. They don’t question it. They don’t put on their own experts. Assuming the evidence of the government is satisfactory is a tremendous mistake that should never be made. Here in Nassau County, we brought the first case to essentially attack the credibility of the Nassau county crime labs . The case was instrumental in ...

Personal Injury in the Winter Months

“We’ve handled cases where people have been injured due to icy conditions at a building or in a parking lot. Generally those cases involve situations where there has been a snow or ice event. Time has gone by, but the building owners did nothing to fix that condition and somebody has been injured. A lot of times those can be very significant injuries because a person’s cold out, fall on hard ...