Uniondale, June 7th, 2012 — Partner Russell G. Tisman Honored by the Nassau County Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Committee with the 2012 Distinguished Professional Achievement Recognition. He was recognized for possessing the highest professional qualifications and ethical standards, professional expertise, leadership and integrity among other notables in his day-to-day practice of law.

Founded in 1899, the Nassau County Bar Association is the leading source for legal information and services for the legal profession and the local community in Nassau County, Long Island, New York. NCBA enjoys a membership of nearly 6,000 private and public attorneys, judges, legal educators and law students, making it the largest suburban bar association in the United States.

Russell G. Tisman specializes in complex corporate, commercial, defense, employment, labor and Surrogate’s Court litigation. He has tried cases and argued appeals in Federal and State courts and administrative agencies throughout the United States, and in arbitration and other alternate dispute resolution fora. Mr. Tisman also actively counsels management and human resource professionals on employment and labor matters. He represents public companies, privately held businesses, insurers, financial institutions and individuals in all types of business related disputes.

Mr. Tisman is a member of the American Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the Nassau County Bar Association, where he is active on the employment and labor committee. He has served as President of the Lawyers Club of Huntington and currently is a board member of the Theodore Roosevelt American Inn of Court. He has published articles in various journals including the Journal of the American Corporate Counsel Association, and the National Law Journal, and treatise sections on litigation and employment topics, including chapter updates for BNA’s Employment Discrimination Law treatise, and has lectured on employment and litigation law and alternative dispute resolution. He is AV-Rated by Martindale Hubbell and has been selected for a third year by Long Island Business News as one of Long Island’s leading employment and labor lawyers in its “Who’s Who in Law” edition, among other honors he has received.