Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense
  Trusted Criminal Defense When Your Rights And Reputation Are On The Line While we are well known for our employment law representation, the largest threat to your rights may not be from your employer. When you or a loved one is investigated, subpoenaed or charged with a crime, it may put your career, reputation and future at risk.
• DUI/DWI
  Marissa Balonon-Rosen practices criminal defense as well as employment law. Prior to joining Vladeck, Marissa practiced public defense for over five years at the Bronx Defenders in the South Bronx, New Hampshire Public Defender in Manchester, and as a Rule 44b participant at the Alaska Public Defender in Ketchikan. She has defended hundreds of juveniles and adults charged with a vast array of misdemeanors and felonies, ranging from DUIs to kidnapping and homicide. She has served as a mentor to new lawyers and a supervisor to New York City law students from institutions such as Columbia Law, CUNY Law and Brooklyn Law.
• Robbery
  We won a complete reversal of conviction on a four-eyewitness robbery conviction in New York’s highest federal appeals court on the trial lawyer’s failure to adequately challenge wrongfully tainted police arranged identification procedures or consult an appropriate expert witness at trial, resulting in the client’s immediate release from custody. On remand, the charges against him were entirely dismissed.
• Misdemeanors
• Homicide
• Kidnapping

Business and Corporate Law

• Business Disputes
  Successfully resolved other discrimination, harassment, retaliation, equal pay, and contract disputes, both before and after commencement of litigation, resulting in amicable resolutions.
• Business Transactions

Employment Law

• Employment Discrimination
• Employment Litigation
  Excellence in Advocacy Our attorneys understand that pursuing employment litigation is often one of the most painful and stressful experiences an employee can face. Our clients enjoy the peace of mind of knowing that employees' rights are our focus; we never represent companies or managers.
• Severance Agreement
• Sexual Harassment
  The jury ruled in plaintiff’s favor on her claims of sexual harassment and retaliation and awarded $11.6 million in punitive damages. The case settled before the district court ruled on plaintiff’s claim for lost wages and benefits.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
• Disability Discrimination
  Goonan v. Federal Reserve Bank of New York We successfully defended a motion to dismiss the disability discrimination and retaliation claims of a 9/11 survivor who suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Plaintiff Bruce Goonan was forced to end his twenty-five year career at the NY Fed when the NY Fed refused to provide him with reasonable accommodations for his disability in violation of federal, state, and city anti-discrimination laws.