Criminal Law

• Wrongful Death
  Roberta Ashkin is a New York personal injury attorney and wrongful death lawyer who represents victims and their families throughout New York City and state. She has helped victims of car accidents, work injuries, slip and fall incidents and more. Our law office strives to help the injured and to win compensation that will help them through their time of need and beyond. To learn more about our practice areas within the field of personal injury, please choose a link above. To contact our law offices about a potential personal injury case today, please fill out the form at the right or call our Manhattan office at (646) 779-8520.
• Traffic Violations
  Some causes of trucking accidents include: high bumper height or lack of bumpers on tractor trailers (which can lead to underride accidents), truck speeding, aggressive driving, jackknifing, unsafe lane changes and maneuvers, truck driver fatigue, truck driver drug and alcohol abuse, and unsafe trucks or truck parts (poor maintenance).
• Sex Crimes
  Others claim that the expansion of transgender rights presents safety concerns for cisgenders, (women biologically identified as female at birth), in all female spas, gyms, domestic violence safe- havens, rape centers and prisons. There is no shortage of news accounts reporting indecent exposure, rape and other offenses of men posing as transgender women to illegally gain access to such facilities with the intent of committing these egregious acts.
• Assault

Business and Corporate Law

• Business Formation
• Business Transactions
  John serves clients throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Westchester, and Long Island. His years of experience have enabled him to form hundreds of connections with other Real Estate Professionals, including Real Estate Brokers, Mortgage Professionals, Home Inspectors/Engineers, Architects, Tax Specialists and 1031 Intermediaries to offer you all comprehensive services for your residential and commercial transactions.

Employment Law

• Employment Contract
  John also represents and assists his clients in all aspects of business formation, management and development, ranging from the creation of a new entity to the sale or purchase of an ongoing business enterprise. John has assisted his clients with contract review and negotiation, employment agreements, shareholder and buy-sell agreements, leases, property acquisitions and compliance with legal and business formalities. John is also well-versed in representing clients in all forms of business transactions, small and large.
• Sexual Harassment
  Women’s issues run the gamut, from sexual harassment and discrimination and equal pay in the workplace, to the quality of medical care women receive, and the toxic substances to which they are exposed through the use of common household products, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals often with deadly results.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  He is a contributor to real estate law publications such as Landlord v. Tenant and Apartment Law Insider and has been published in the New York Journal.
• Premises Liability
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes
  John also has extensive experience litigating civil, commercial and real estate matters in the New York Supreme Court and Civil Court. He has prosecuted and is well-versed in all Landlord-Tenant matters including non-primary residence, sublet and assignment, succession, illusory tenancy and Yellowstone injunctions. He has substantial knowledge and training in other areas, including second-hand smoke nuisance litigation, defamation, libel, Surrogate’s Court proceedings, and enforcement of by-laws and restrictive covenants in homeowners’ and property owners’ associations.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  The Ashkin Law Firm is a full service law firm uniquely dedicated to individualized client attention. Drawing upon over 40 years of experience in the courtroom in a wide range of cutting edge litigation, the Ashkin law firm has successfully advocated the rights of victims and their families in serious personal injury, pharmaceutical and workplace and environmental toxic contamination cases. What sets the firm apart is a commitment to highly effective personal representation with compassion and dignity.
• Medical Malpractice
  The legal standard of proof for medical malpractice is defined as "professional negligence where the healthcare provider deviates or departs from the accepted standard of care”. Medical errors that could be the basis of a lawsuit include...
• Auto Accidents

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning

Finance Law

• Foreclosure
  She also has extensive experience litigating commercial and real estate matters in the New York Supreme Court. Over the past ten years the firm has expanded its practice to include real estate and transactional matters with a concentration on commercial and residential leases and sales. She has substantial knowledge and training in distressed property foreclosures and sales and has by judicial appointment served as Receiver in pending foreclosure proceedings in the fiscal oversight and management of commercial enterprises, multiple dwellings, and distressed hotels.