Family Law

• Divorce
• Child Custody and Visitation
  Rottenberg Lipman Rich’s Matrimonial & Family Law attorneys help clients prepare the appropriate legal documents to guide them through every aspect of family law, from prenuptial, cohabitation, and postnuptial agreements, through divorce, support, child custody, and paternity proceedings. Our attorneys guide clients through pre-litigation planning, negotiation, litigation, and any appeal and post-judgment proceedings.
• Paternity

Criminal Law

• Internet Crimes
  Rottenberg Lipman Rich advises clients on the registration, protection, prosecution, and defense of their intellectual property. On behalf of firm clients, attorneys in our Intellectual Property & Internet Law practice register trademarks and copyrights, draft and negotiate license agreements, and enforce client intellectual property rights through litigation before governmental agencies and in state and federal courts nationwide. The firm has successfully prosecuted claims of infringement and obtained injunctive and monetary relief against infringers in addition to successfully representing clients accused of infringing intellectual property rights.

Business and Corporate Law

• Mergers and Acquisitions
  Our Outside General Counsel practice permits clients to access the entire suite of Rottenberg Lipman Rich’s legal services throughout their business lifecycle – from entity formation and corporate government to hiring and firing employees/workers; buying, selling or leasing real estate; mergers and acquisitions; dispute resolution; and the dissolution or winding down of an entity.
• Business Disputes
  Rottenberg Lipman Rich’s Corporate, Commercial & Business Law practice is focused on furthering client business goals. Attorneys at the firm negotiate and prepare business agreements across a broad range of subjects for corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, and other business operations. We regularly handle and prepare new business formations, acquisitions, joint venture agreements, shareholder and operating agreements, employment manuals and handbooks, and licensing, franchising, and financing agreements. For corporate clients, the firm advises on the legal aspects of business planning and strategy. We also counsel business executives on a host of individual matters, including employment contracts and compensation.
• Limited Liability Companies
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property
  Rottenberg Lipman Rich’s attorneys also have deep experience working with quantitative traders, coders, portfolio managers and other professionals in the electronic and algorithmic trading industry, frequently counseling employers and employees on employment and related matters, including the protection of proprietary trading algorithms and intellectual property issues, and in litigation and arbitration.

Employment Law

• Wrongful Termination
  Rottenberg Lipman Rich regularly counsels companies in structuring employment agreements, creating employee manuals and handbooks, and addressing executive compensation, wrongful discharge, plant closings, downsizing and workforce restructuring, noncompetition and trade secrets agreements and litigation, and employment-related torts.
• Employment Discrimination
  Rottenberg Lipman Rich also has a long history and active current practice of protecting the interests of employees, such as Wall Street executives, investment bankers, traders, and hedge-fund professionals, in connection with employment agreements and employment-related matters spanning complex compensation and non-compete issues, as well as severance and termination matters, including matters involving claims for employment discrimination and other forms of company misconduct. In the employment arena, as in others, Rottenberg Lipman Rich handles each matter in accordance with the client’s needs and objectives; and while avoiding legal action is often the desired goal, the firm’s litigators are experienced trial lawyers and, where necessary, prosecute and defend claims on behalf of employee clients in arbitration forums and court.
• Employment Contract
  With extensive and varied experience in prosecuting and defending lawsuits, Rottenberg Lipman Rich’s litigators are skilled not just in handling formal litigation and other legal proceedings but also in counseling clients to avoid such proceedings. Our litigators have represented individuals, and small and large entities, across a wide variety of industries and subjects, and in all types of venues, from federal court, to state court, to arbitration and mediation hearing rooms. Rottenberg Lipman Rich’s litigation and alternative dispute resolution practice includes matters relating to all aspects of business, corporate and commercial law; employment contracts, restrictive covenant, discrimination and trade secrets; real estate and construction; securities and banking; defamation; entertainment and fashion; copyright and trademark; insurance; creditors’ rights; preference and fraudulent-transfer actions; enforcement of judgments; dissolution; and accounting matters – domestically and internationally.
• Severance Agreement
• Sexual Harassment
  Clients rely on us to help them develop compliant employment processes and procedures, including job posting and interviewing, training, job performance reviews, and promotion, termination, and post-termination dispute resolution, litigation, and arbitration. Rottenberg Lipman Rich attorneys advise clients on best practices and, when necessary, defend companies against claims for sexual harassment and other forms of employment discrimination under Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), as well as claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).

Property Law

• Construction Litigation
  Rottenberg Lipman Rich represents developers, individuals, contractors, institutional and individual investors, landlords, tenants, and lenders involved in the purchase, sale, lease, development, financing, workout, and restructuring of real estate properties. Our attorneys advise clients on commercial leases, joint ventures, and residential and commercial lending. We provide strategic counsel on all matters of real estate and construction law from shovel-ready design through completion, sale, and leasing. With significant experience in real estate and construction law, we know how things get done and are well-positioned to help clients take a project from design through completion, sale or leasing.
• Condominium Law
  Rottenberg Lipman Rich represents cooperative housing corporations, condominiums, and their boards, as well as individual shareholders, unit owners, developers, sponsors, and managing agents throughout the greater metropolitan area.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Rottenberg Lipman Rich provides legal services relating to art law and, specifically, the artist/dealer relationship, tax consequences surrounding art transactions, collecting and investing, and tax and estate planning for artists. We regularly represent art dealers, artists, galleries, art advisors, museums, auction houses, appraisers, art foundations, collectors, restorers, and publishers and have significant experience in handling art-related disputes and litigation, both in court, including Surrogate’s Court, and in the context of alternative dispute resolution procedures, such as mediation and arbitration.
• Wills
  Rottenberg Lipman Rich helps clients establish and preserve their business and personal legacies. Our Wills, Trusts & Estates attorneys provide sophisticated trusts and estates planning for clients, their families and their businesses. Such planning includes the development and implementation of buy-sell succession plans and the preparation of wills and trusts, such as revocable trusts, life insurance trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, education trusts and charitable remainder trusts. The firm also assists clients in protecting their assets in contemplation of long-term medical care and nursing home planning and counsels clients respecting living wills and advanced directives for medical care.
• Trusts
  To minimize gift, estate, and income tax exposures, Rottenberg Lipman Rich advises clients of potential tax ramifications and counsels on the distribution of charitable contributions, as well as the establishment of private foundations and not-for-profit corporations. We administer the probate of wills, as well as intestate estates, in addition to preparing income and estate tax returns, representing estates in tax audits, providing post-mortem income and estate tax planning, and preparing accountings and trust administration.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Foreclosure
  Attorneys in our Cooperative & Condominium Law practice advise cooperative and condominium boards and managing agents on matters including dispute resolution and litigation, workouts with defaulting sponsors, proxy fights regarding control of boards of directors and managers, as well as disputes with managing agents and contractors, lien and mortgage foreclosures, enforcement of nonpayment of maintenance and common charges claims, sales of defaulting owners’ shares and proprietary leases, labor/union arbitrations and litigations and employment discrimination claims, claims relating to alleged failure to approve sales of cooperatives apartments, disputes with contractors, design and engineering professionals, and sponsors in connection with claims for construction and design defects, fraud claims and litigation against sponsors and others relating to the conversion of cooperatives and condominiums, and defending claims against boards and/or board members.
• Tax Law