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Michael is a partner in the Firm’s Litigation and Employment & Labor Groups.. Relying on over twenty years of experience, Michael litigates trade secret, unfair competition, dissolution, slander, breach of contract and other commercial/transactional/real estate matters. Michael also regularly represents employers regarding discrimination, wage hour and other employment and labor issues.. Michael’s clients include technology, big data, communication, healthcare, online retail, entertainment, advertising, public relations, marketing, wholesale, insurance, securities, construction, real estate development and management, light and heavy manufacturing, not-for-profit, food service, hospitality, transportation, shipping, distribution and other businesses as well as educational institutions and real estate entities.. A “C-Suite” level advisor with long term client relationships, Michael offers litigation avoidance and risk management guidance. Michael works with companies ranging in size from family-owned businesses up to and including multi-national corporations.. Michael has appeared in Federal and State Courts as well as Administrative Government Agencies and Arbitration Panels throughout the country, including New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Puerto Rico, California, Virginia, Ohio, Florida, Washington DC and Maryland. Examples of Administrative Agency appearances include the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the New York State Division of Human Rights, the New York City Commission on Human Rights, the United States Department of Labor, the New York State Department of Labor and the New York State Workers Compensation Board.. Michael also counsels employers concerning separation of employment, reductions in force including mass layoffs, leave policies, computer use and electronic data policies, personnel practices, wage hour, union representation and (where appropriate) avoidance, collective bargaining, strikes, picketing including addressing picket line violence, OSHA and other matters.. Michael is frequently retained on an emergency basis to prevent our clients from suffering immediate irreparable harm absent court intervention.. Michael’s many successes include a complete win where he obtained a seven figure award plus attorneys’ fees in an unfair competition action. There, Michael successfully persuaded the Court to order forensic discovery of defendant’s computers in a case of first impression. He then demonstrated defendants destroyed “smoking gun” emails and other electronic data establishing an adverse inference against defendants.. In recognition of Michael’s extensive experience as a trial advocate, he is frequently asked to work with out-of-state lawyers in connection with representing their clients in New York Federal and State actions and/or has been retained as special counsel for a discrete area. In this regard, Michael has also served as a court-appointed electronic discovery referee.. Michael has drafted handbooks, employment agreements, trade secret agreements and separation agreements affecting over a hundred thousand employees as well as providing day-to-day human resources advice. Michael is often requested to provide management training for both large and small companies. In addition, Mr. Masri is regularly approved to defend insureds in connection with employment practice liability and related matters.. Michael is routinely invited to teach continuing legal and accounting education courses, to join symposia faculty and/or present to the business community concerning an ever-widening range of topics including computer forensics, electronic discovery, social media, employee relations, employment handbooks and policies, trade secret protection, ethical rules governing attorneys, New York civil procedure, the rules of the Commercial Part of the New York State courts and other matters. Michael is also frequently interviewed in connection with providing his opinions concerning social media, forensic recovery of electronic date, employment and other questions.. Before graduating law school, Michael worked as a Board Agent at the National Labor Relations Board where he investigated unfair labor practice charges and conducted union representation elections. Michael also served as a clerk for the Chief Administrative Law Judge for the Regional Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.. As an attorney firmly committed to charity and improving our community, Michael has been a long-standing member of the WE CARE Advisory Board of the Nassau County Bar Association. WE CARE finances much needed food, shelter and emergency support for children, the elderly and other less fortunate Nassau County residents. Michael is also a board member of the Long Island Bike Challenge, a one hundred mile cycling event that raises money donated to the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research.. Since 2010, Michael has completed almost twenty long distance obstacle races including Tough Mudders and Spartan Races to name but a few. Michael is a devoted father and the custodial parent of his beautiful teen daughters and looks forward to spending summers on the beach with his family and friends.

Jerry counsels a diverse group of ERISA, estate planning and closely held business clients. He has designed and implemented complex tax saving estate and asset protection plans for high net worth individuals; qualified pension and profit sharing plans (including 401(k), cash balance and ESOP) and executive compensation programs for Fortune 500 companies, hospitals, banks, law and medical firms, and closely-held businesses; and shareholder, partnership, and LLC agreements and executive employment contracts on behalf of closely held businesses. Jerry was the only Long Island attorney awarded Super Lawyer status in the New York Metro Region for 2010, 2011 and 2012 in the Employee Benefits/ERISA category, was awarded Super Lawyer status in the Corporate Counsel Edition for 2009, and is a Fellow of the prestigious American College of Employee Benefits Counsel.. Before founding The Wolf Law Group, P.C. in April of 1999, Jerry was a name Partner in the Mineola based law firm of Meltzer, Lippe et al. and prior to that he was a Partner in the Park Avenue law firm of Alexander & Green and an associate at Shearman & Sterling. He has served as an Adjunct Professor at Pace University and Long Island University and as Faculty Chairman of the Practicing Law Institute Continuing Legal Education Program on Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation Plans for 10 years. Jerry has lectured and written articles for the American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, Nassau and Suffolk Academies of Law, Practicing Law Institute, N.Y.U. Tax Institute, Trust and Estate Planning Council of Nassau County, the Nassau County Society of CLU, and numerous CPA Societies.. Jerry is a graduate of Brooklyn College (BA), University of Wisconsin (MS) and Fordham Law School (JD). He and his wife, Toby, are the proud parents of daughters, Dana, Erica, Amanda, and Debra and grandparents of Abe, Sam, Lily, Jessie, Joseph, Joey, Olivia, Naomi, Abby and Bella. Jerry is a published composer of popular and jazz music. One of his songs, “Adam,” received national radio play and appears on the jazz album, “Arthur Street.” His own album, “The Soul of the Wolf,” has been played on Long Island jazz stations and at local jazz events.

A highly regarded civil litigator, Stuart L. Finz is the senior trial attorney at Finz & Finz, P.C. Located in Mineola, New York, he focuses his practice exclusively on personal injury and wrongful death litigation, representing clients in Nassau and Suffolk and other parts of the greater New York City metropolitan area. Mr. Finz has been admitted to practice in New York since 1988, and he is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Southern and Northern Districts of New York.. Mr. Finz has been able to obtain hundreds of millions of dollars through both jury verdicts and settlements that he has negotiated out of court on behalf of his clients who have been harmed by the negligence of other parties. Some of his representative results have included a $20.5 million jury award against a tobacco company for a client who contracted lung cancer, a $14.7 million verdict for a worker who was injured on the job and a $24.5 million settlement for a victim of a truck accident. These and other successes have led to his being a member of the invitation-only Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum.. In addition to the foregoing, Mr. Finz has handled cases involving medical malpractice, defective products, auto-pedestrian accidents, toxic torts and premises liability. His successful track record and high degree of ethics have led to a great deal of recognition from his fellow attorneys, including being named to The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100. Mr. Finz’s professional affiliations include the American Association for Justice, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and the Nassau County Bar Association. He is a graduate of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California.

Experienced Corporate attorney serving clients in Mineola and surrounding areas.

Experienced Corporate attorney serving clients in Mineola and surrounding areas.

Experienced Corporate attorney serving clients in Mineola and surrounding areas.

Experienced Corporate attorney serving clients in Mineola and surrounding areas.

Experienced Corporate attorney serving clients in Mineola and surrounding areas.

Experienced Corporate attorney serving clients in Mineola and surrounding areas.

Experienced Corporate attorney serving clients in Mineola and surrounding areas.

Experienced Corporate attorney serving clients in Mineola and surrounding areas.

Experienced Corporate attorney serving clients in Mineola and surrounding areas.

Experienced Corporate attorney serving clients in Mineola and surrounding areas.

Experienced Corporate attorney serving clients in Mineola and surrounding areas.

Experienced Corporate attorney serving clients in Mineola and surrounding areas.

Experienced Corporate attorney serving clients in Mineola and surrounding areas.

Experienced Corporate attorney serving clients in Mineola and surrounding areas.

Experienced Corporate attorney serving clients in Mineola and surrounding areas.