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Phil is a partner in the Firm’s Litigation Group. Phil practices in all phases of business litigation in the Federal and New York State court systems, including trial level and appellate practice, and conducts arbitrations before FINRA, previously known as the NASD. Phil provides counsel to and represents both institutional clients and individuals in several areas of commercial litigation, including employment and labor law matters, unfair competition, restrictive covenant and trade secret law, securities arbitrations, real estate disputes, shareholder and partnership disputes, intellectual property litigation, Section 1983 discrimination claims, and other business torts.
Phil has extensive experience in securing expedited and equitable relief for his clients, particularly in connection with obtaining emergency temporary restraining orders and injunctions for the purpose of protecting intellectual property rights and proprietary information of businesses from departing key employees and competitors, and otherwise enforcing post-employment rights.
In addition, Phil actively counsels private and non-for-profit entities along with individual clients on a wide variety of employment matters, both in connection with litigation and with fashioning and implementing strategies and policies aimed at protecting business proprietary information, and otherwise preventing and avoiding potential employment related litigations of all types.
In June 2007, Phil was recognized as one of the prominent attorneys on Long Island by the Long Island Business News with his inclusion in its Who’s Who in Intellectual Property and Labor Law edition.
Phil received a Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics from Brown University in 1992. While attending Brown, Phil was a pitcher on the varsity baseball team. He received his Juris Doctor from Hofstra University School of Law in 1997, where he was on the Dean’s List and served as a senior staff member of the Hofstra University Law Review. Since graduating law school, Phil has co-authored a number of articles and commentaries in the New York Law Journal, analyzing New York court decisions that touch upon novel issues and recent developments in business litigation. Phil is admitted to practice before the Courts of the State of New York, as well as the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He is an active member of the New York State and Nassau County Bar Associations.
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