September, 2015--- Litigation Partner Andrew E. Curto was named a Long Island Business News honoree of the Around 50 Award. Mr. Curto was selected because of his leadership in business, mentoring, and support of the Long Island community. Andrew E. Curto concentrates his practice in complicated commercial and employment litigation. Prior to joining the Firm in 1999, Mr. Curto was a partner in a Melville,…
November 19, 2015 --- Forchelli, Curto, Deegan, Schwartz, Mineo & Terrana LLP Partner and Chair of the Firm’s Corporate Department Joseph V. Cuomo will be honored by the Long Island Business News with the Leadership of Law award. The Leadership in Law Award recognizes experience, dedication, hard work, skill, and excellence and is dedicated to those individuals whose leadership, both in the legal profession and…
Uniondale, September 17, 2015 —Forchelli, Curto, Deegan, Schwartz, Mineo & Terrana, LLP (the Firm) is pleased to announce 6 attorneys to the 2015 New York Rising Stars® SuperLawyers list. SuperLawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers who have attained a degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a rigorous multi-phased process that includes a…
Uniondale, September 17, 2015 — Forchelli, Curto, Deegan, Schwartz, Mineo & Terrana, LLP (the Firm) congratulates its partners who have been chosen by their peers as New York Super Lawyers®. The Firm has a solid reputation for successfully representing clients in real estate, land use and zoning, tax, trusts and estates, tax certiorari, corporate and commercial law and litigation matters. Formed in 1976, the Firm’s…
Uniondale, Sept. 17, 2015 – Partner Joseph P. Asselta was honored by the Queens Courier chain of newspapers as one of 2015 Top Men in Business. The Queens Courier Top Men in Business award honors women who have provided special service to the New York Community over time as well as the ability to make a difference in the lives of the many people through…
August 10th, 2015 — Jeffrey D. Forchelli, Managing Partner and Founder of Forchelli, Curto, Deegan, Schwartz, Mineo & Terrana, LLP (the Firm), announced that Judge Peter B. Skelos has joined the Firm as a Partner. Judge Skelos recently retired from the New York State judiciary after 20+ years of distinguished service. For the past 11 years, Judge Skelos served as an Associate Justice of the…
Uniondale, July 30, 2015 – Partner Kathleen Deegan Dickson presented on ‘Zoning Considerations’, at the recent, “Attorneys’ Guide to Local Government Law,” seminar sponsored by the National Business Institute (NBI). Among the topics covered were Boundary and Variances Issues, Sources of Conflict between Counties and Municipalities, State Highway Jurisdictional Issues and Managing the Public Right of Way. Kathleen Deegan Dickson concentrates her practice in the areas…
Uniondale, NY - July 27, 2015 - Jeffrey D. Forchelli of Forchelli, Curto, Deegan, Schwartz, Mineo & Terrana and Steven E. Pegalis of Pegalis & Erickson were honored at the Nassau County Bar Association WE CARE Fund's annual Stephen W. Schlissel Golf and Tennis Classic. More than 400 lawyers, judges and business and civic leaders participated at this event, which each year raises more than…
Uniondale, June 18, 2015 — Partners, Judy L. Simoncic and Richard Blumberg, assisted by associate Danielle Tricolla obtained two favorable decisions in Nassau County Supreme Court in two separate Article 78 proceedings filed against the Village of Muttontown Zoning Board of appeals and the Village of Muttontown Site and Architectural Review Board (“SARB”). In the first decision, Justice John Galasso overturned the Zoning Board’s improper…
June 2015 — Partner Daniel P. Deegan of Forchelli, Curto, Deegan, Schwartz, Mineo & Terrana, LLP and Stuart Richner President and Publisher of Richner Communications were elected to the Board of Directors of the Long Island Association (LIA). Daniel P. Deegan, resident of Sea Cliff, heads up the Firm’s Industrial Development Agency (IDA), Municipal Incentives and Government Relations practices, with particular emphasis on facilitating and…