Family Law

• Divorce
• Child Support
  Sarah R. Gersowitz is an associate at Gallet Dreyer & Berkey, LLP. Her practice includes all aspects of family law, including divorce, equitable distribution of business and financial assets, spousal and child support, contested child custody cases, and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. View Profile
• Child Custody and Visitation
  Allen A. Drexel concentrates his practice on complex family law issues, including divorce, equitable distribution of business and financial assets, spousal and child support, contested child custody cases, paternity proceedings, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, and same-sex family law matters.
• Paternity
  Allen A. Drexel concentrates his practice on complex family law issues, including divorce, equitable distribution of business and financial assets, spousal and child support, contested child custody cases, paternity proceedings, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, and same-sex family law matters. View Profile
• Premarital Agreement
  Prenuptial agreements: This is an often controversial approach that spells out what assets each spouse brings to a new marriage and how assets should be treated if there’s a divorce or if one spouse dies. As the name suggests, a prenuptial agreement is inked before a marriage takes place. Many people object to these agreements, believing they get a marriage started with a lack of trust.

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  At Gallet Dreyer & Berkey, LLP, we’re more than lawyers. We are trusted business advisors. We have a keen understanding of how closely held, entrepreneurial businesses operate. This means that we can offer practical, business-savvy legal advice that will help your company thrive – and allow you to take home more money at the end of the year.
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  Gallet Dreyer & Berkey, LLP has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and other forms of business...
• Business Disputes
  This practice area is headed by partner Asher Rubinstein, Esq. and assisted by other attorneys in the firm’s real estate, corporate, intellectual property, and litigation groups. Asher Rubinstein is an avid wine collector and food aficionado. Asher was also a national blind wine tasting finalist, and is a member of the Wine, Beer and Spirits Law Committee of the Business Law Section of the New York State Bar Association. He is on the board of directors of the Knights of Alba, NYC, an officer of the New York Wine & Food Society, and a past member of the Chaînes des Rôtisseurs.
• Business Transactions
  Scott represents buyers and sellers of commercial properties, residential homes, cooperative apartments, condominium units, air rights, and vacant parcels; and his commercial transactions regularly involve 1031 tax-deferred exchanges.
• Limited Liability Companies
  Limited liability companies (LLC): An LLC can protect assets by separating personal and business liabilities. For example, if a business faces legal action or debts, the owner’s personal assets are generally not included in the list of assets available to creditors or to satisfy judgments.
• Construction Contracts
  Contracts with third parties – We prepare, negotiate and review construction contracts, commercial leases and license agreements (for laundry rooms, storage facilities, parking lots, advertisements, cell towers, etc.), among other types of contracts and agreements.
• Intellectual Property

Employment Law

• Employment Contract
  Preparation of joint venture and other operating agreements, offering memoranda, subscription agreements, employment contracts, vendor contracts, etc.;
• Employment Litigation
  Gallet Dreyer & Berkey, LLP assists restaurateurs, wine and spirits importers and retailers, and others in the food, beverage, restaurant, and hospitality industries. We assist our clients with their legal and business needs, including business entity formation, governmental regulation, employment issues, tax issues, litigation, real estate, intellectual property, and other legal matters. Our clients include Michelin-starred chefs and restaurateurs, award-winning winemakers, bar and club owners, and their partners and financiers.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  For the past two decades, Scott's practice has focused primarily on transactional real estate matters — Cooperative and Condominium Board Representation; Buying and Selling of Properties; Commercial Leasing and Neighbor Access Agreements.
• Construction Litigation
  Gallet Dreyer & Berkey, LLP is home to one of the most experienced and effective construction law and construction litigation practices in the New York area.
• Real Estate Transactions
  Even modest-sized legal matters often demand skills in a variety of different practice areas. For example, we recently handled a real estate transaction that required expertise in four areas: real estate, litigation, tax, and trusts and estates. We managed to secure the most advantageous terms for our client because we were able to instantly assemble a team of lawyers with expertise in all four relevant areas.
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes
  Michelle P. Quinn represents cooperative and condominium boards, businesses, and individuals regarding issues with shareholders and owners in commercial and residential landlord-tenant litigation, including summary proceedings, administrative agency hearings, and Supreme Court actions and appeals. She has substantial experience with Mitchell-Lama cooperatives, redevelopment companies, and tenancies protected by New York State Rent Regulation. View Profile
• Property Damage
  Insurance is another way of protecting assets or transferring risk by covering potential financial losses from events such as accidents, lawsuits or property damage.
• Condominium Law
  Gallet Dreyer & Berkey, LLP is synonymous with cooperative and condominium law. Since 1978, our attorneys have acted as general counsel to thousands of co-op and condo boards, successfully handling every type of legal and business matter related to all phases of the operation of their buildings and related litigation. We work hand in hand with board members and individual unit owners to deliver the most sophisticated, advantageous, and cost-effective legal strategies. Our clients are our family, for whom we will go above and beyond in our representation.

Immigration Law

• Citizenship and Naturalization

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Umbrella insurance: Umbrella insurance offers an extra layer of liability protection beyond standard policies, safeguarding assets against significant claims or lawsuits. It covers situations such as personal injury, property damage and even defamation, which may be excluded from or exceed the limits of typical home or car insurance. Umbrella insurance often includes legal defense costs to cover costs of a legal battle.
• Auto Accidents

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  At Gallet Dreyer & Berkey, LLP we offer highly sophisticated, personalized advice regarding estate planning, business succession, and related matters. Our attorneys have decades of experience helping families preserve wealth, protect dependents, and ensure smooth transitions from one generation to the next. Additionally, if you are involved in a dispute involving an estate, we offer aggressive, intelligent estate litigation services.
• Wills
  Document Preparation – We offer highly skilled preparation of documents including wills, trusts, ILITs, GRATs, QPRTs, charitable trusts, living trusts, health care proxies, living wills, and durable powers of attorney, among others.
• Trusts
  He explained that in addition to a will, a proper estate plan should include a revocable living trust. “After the person passes away, his or her trust has a continuing duration on its own. This trust should include the same inheritance provisions usually contained in the will,” he said. “Whereas the will has to go through probate and becomes a public document, the trust may bypass probate and remain private.”
• Power of Attorney
  Giving someone your power of attorney is the ultimate sign of trust, since you’re empowering them to manage your financial affairs if you’re unable to do so. Choosing someone you know will honor your wishes and making your wishes clear to them is an essential part of making sure that everything goes smoothly.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Foreclosure
• Tax Law
  Through 2025, taxpayers who itemize their tax deductions can claim a deduction on their federal tax return up to $10,000 each year for local property taxes paid, according to Rubinstein. “When the tax law changed in 2017, this was very controversial, because taxpayers previously had an unlimited deduction. The $10,000 limit is significant for taxpayers in high-tax states like New York and California.” Asher Rubinstein, Partner Gallet Dreyer & Berkey, LLP