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STEPHEN E. TURMAN is a highly respected trial attorney and appellate advocate with more than 20 years of experience practicing for large national corporate law firms. From his first day as an attorney, Mr. Turman has been representing clients in complex commercial litigation and has extensive experience representing both debtors and creditors in pre-bankruptcy workouts and in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy process. Mr. Turman has also earned a reputation in Surrogate's Courts throughout New York as a tenacious advocate for fiduciaries and beneficiaries in contested probate and estate and trust accounting proceedings

Neil P. Diskin is an Associate at Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, P.C. where he is a member of the Commercial Litigation Department, Insurance Law Group, White Collar Crime & Investigations Department and Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Practice Group. Neil is called upon to handle all manner of cases spanning the gamut, including business disputes and breaches of contract, litigation arising out of real estate transactions, employment matters, and regulatory violations. He has represented insurance companies and their insureds in both insurance coverage and defense matters, with an emphasis on professional liability claims. He has substantial experience representing individuals, businesses, and municipalities in civil litigation in state and federal court. He also has significant criminal defense experience from his time as a public defender with the Legal Aid Society of Suffolk County.. Neil received his Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center where he was the Managing Editor of the Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives, and he received honors for the pro bono work he performed as a law student. He received his undergraduate degree from Adelphi University.. Neil is a member the Trademark & Unfair Competition Committee of the New York City Bar. He is also a member of the Nassau County Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, and the Chaminade High School Alumni Lawyers Association.. Neil is admitted to practice law in the State of New York and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

Adam H. Russ is a partenr at Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, P.C., where he is a member of the firm's Commercial Litigation Department, Insurance & Insurance Litigation Department, Alternative Dispute Resolution Department, and Fine Art Law Practice Group.. Adam is an experienced AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rated litigator.  He has been selected to the 2013 - 2015, and 2021 - 2024 New York Metro Super Lawyers lists.  Adam has litigated and arbitrated matters for clients throughout the United States.. Adam represents clients in a wide range of state and federal suits, arbitrations, and mediations involving insurance runoff and agency disputes, art ownership, authenticity, and title disputes, complex contract and commercial claims, business torts, declaratory actions, bad faith and insurance/reinsurance coverage claims, real-estate disputes, wrongful termination and employment matters, and estate litigation.. Adam has prosecuted and defended actions for clients in a variety of industries, including insurance, art dealers/auctions, title insurance, electronics, technology, manufacturing, banking, health care, real estate, construction, and sanitation.. He has litigated various types of cases from class actions and multi-jurisdictional complex commercial cases to simple collection matters. In addition, Adam provides clients with pre-litigation advice and strategic planning, he conducts and supervises all aspects of litigation including pre-litigation investigations, discovery, alternative dispute resolution, motion practice, trials, and settlement negotiations. Adam recently successfully arbitrated a matter and, following a hearing, he obtained a $1.125 million award for his client, a ceding insurance company, against a reinsurer who refused to pay its share of certain losses and related expenses. In addition, the arbitration panel awarded Adam's client interest, attorneys' fees, and other damages.. Mr. Russ also performs a broad range of legal activities in areas complementary to his litigation practice, such as commercial and business transactions, including corporate formation, acquisition and governance, purchases and sales of assets, insurance agency and claims administration agreements, leasing and the purchase and sale of real estate, and estate administration and probate.  Recently, Adam represented a property and casualty insurer and reinsurer in connection with the sale, transfer, and reinsurance of another insurer's specialty property book of business to a managing general agent.. Mr. Russ graduated from the University of Illinois (Champaign/Urbana) with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and from DePaul University College of Law with a Juris Doctor dehree.. BAR ADMISSIONS:. New YorkMassachusetts (Inactive)Illinois (Inactive). U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second CircuitU.S. District Court Southern District of New YorkU.S. District Court Eastern District of New YorkU.S. District Court Northern District of IllinoisVarious Pro Hac Vice Admissions