Attorney Profiles:

Anthony Michael Sabino

Mary Jane Sabino

Anthony Michael Sabino

Anthony Michael Sabino, J.D. began the firm of Sabino & Sabino, P.C. in 1995 and is experienced in all aspects of litigating matters in the federal, bankruptcy, and state courts, from initial pleadings, depositions, discovery, arguing motions, conducting trials, and appeals.

He possesses special expertise in antitrust, securities, bankruptcy, international law, admiralty, maritime, arbitration, mediation, government regulation, constitutional law, corporate, banking, tax litigation, and white collar crime and has a national reputation as an authority on antitrust law, securities regulation and litigation, bankruptcy, arbitration and mediation.

Anthony Sabino's Background:

• Former judicial law clerk for a prominent federal judge.
• Published well over one hundred articles for the nation's leading law journals, which in turn have been cited by some of the country's highest federal appellate courts, including the Fifth and Seventh Circuits (twice), and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg while she was on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, numerous district and bankruptcy courts, and leading law reviews across the nation.
• Expert legal commentator on television, including CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, Fox News Channel, and the BBC, on radio by Bloomberg Business Radio, AP Radio, CNN Radio, WCBS, WINS, WWOR, WABC, Voice of America, and others, as an expert on the Martha Stewart trial and sentencing, the Enron bankruptcy, the Arthur Andersen collapse, the Tyco trial, and the Microsoft antitrust case.
• Print quotes include the New York Times, New York Post, Daily News, Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Dow Jones, Newsday, Los Angeles Daily News, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Houston Chronicle, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun Times, the Miami Herald, and other newspapers and publications across the nation and the world.
• Expertise in actual legal practice and as a teacher includes complex business litigation, securities fraud, antitrust, bankruptcy, accountants' liability, international law, maritime law, and arbitration and mediation, representing a variety of corporate and individual clients in the federal and state courts, and in arbitrations and mediations at the stock exchanges and elsewhere.
• Fully trained and experienced arbitrator (including chair) and mediator for the stock exchanges and other organizations.
• Organizes and lectures at continuing legal education seminars on the aforementioned subjects.

COURT ADMISSIONS - Admitted to the practice of law before the following courts:

United State Supreme Court (1999)
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1991)
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1991)
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1997)
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (2001)
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1999)
United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (1999)

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1984)
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (1984)
United States District Court for the District of Arizona (1997)
United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas (2001)
United States Court of Federal Claims (1999)
United States Tax Court (1984)

State of New York (1984)
State of Pennsylvania (1985)

ACADEMIC AWARDS & HONORS:

Professor of the Year, 2004, Peter J. Tobin College of Business, St. John's University

1997 - Certificates of Recognition, Nassau Academy of Law for outstanding work as chair and lecturer at numerous continuing legal education seminars and public service speaking engagements).

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

Chair, 2003-05, Federal Courts Committee, Nassau County Bar Association (former Vice Chair, 2001-03).

Chair, 2000-02, ADR Committee, Nassau County Bar Association (former Vice Chair, 1998-2000)

ADR Tribunal, Nassau County Bar Association

Nassau County Bar Association (Committees on Bankruptcy, Banking & Securities, ADR, and Federal Courts)

Chair, 1995-96, Bankruptcy Section, Federal Bar Association
Member, 1995-96, National Council, Federal Bar Associationi
American Bankruptcy Institute
Commercial Law League of America
Maritime Law Association
Association of Law Clerks to Bankruptcy Judges
Association of Trial Lawyers of America

FULL-TIME COLLEGE TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

1995 - Present St. John's University, The Peter J. Tobin College of Business
Tenured Associate Professor of Law
Graduate and Undergraduate Divisions
(application for Full Professorship pending)

1988 - 1995 St. John's University, College of Business Administration
(Part-Time) Adjunct Professor of Law
Graduate Division (1990-1995)
Undergraduate Division (1988-1990)

Mary Jane Sabino

Mary Jane Sabino began the firm of Sabino & Sabino, P.C. in 1995 and is fully experienced in all aspects of real estate, commercial transactions, trademark, copyright, intellectual property, trusts, wills, and estates, and general representations.

She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Law at The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, St. John's University, New York. She received her J.D. in 1983 at St. John's University School of Law, after having graduated in 1980 from Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York (B.A., History Cum Laude, History Honors).

Mary Jane Sabino presently teaches part time at St. John's University (The Peter J. Tobin College of Business) and is a Substitute Instructor, Guest Lecturer for various undergraduate and graduate law courses, including Law 150, 253, and 4313

1986-1994 Mary Jane C. Sabino, Attorney at Law
1984-1986 BUCKLEY, KREMER, O'REILLY, PIEPER, HOBAN & MARSH
1982-1983 Intern, New York State Attorney General's Office
1981-1982 Intern, New York City Landmark's Preservation Commission

PUBLICATIONS - ARTICLES - PEER REVIEWED LAW REVIEWS:

"Restoring The Necessity of Timely Court Approval For The Assumption Or Rejection Of Unexpired Leases Under Bankruptcy Code Section 365(d)(4)," 27 Duquesne Law Review, Fall 1988, pp. 35-71 ("Leases II").

Cited by In re Windmill Farms Management Corp., 116 B.R. 755 (Bankr. S.D. Cal. 1990).

PEER REVIEWED LAW JOURNALS - PERIODICALS:

"The Battle Between 'True Lease' and Disguised Security Interest Rages on as Courts Add New Chapters," 57 The Secured Lender September/October 2001, pp. 42-50 and 76

"Defamation Law: The 'Wilkow' Decision," 23 The National Law Journal August 13, 2001, p. A19

"7th Circuit Curtails Businesses' Ability To Sue for Unfavorable Media Reports," 16 The Corporate Counsellor June 2001, pp. 1-3 (lead article)

"Preserving the Nondischargeability Of Debts From Pre-Bankruptcy Settlements," 17 The Bankruptcy Strategist, December 1999, pp. 5-8

"The Death of Liman? The Second Circuit in Prudential Strikes a Blow, But Not a Fatal One," 11 Maritime Law Reporter, 1999, pp. 21-25 (lead article)

"Fifth Circuit Teaches Many Lessons in Associated v. Alexander's Unity," 7 Maritime Law Reporter, 1995, pp. 41-43

"1994 Changes To The Bankruptcy Code: Reformation or Mutation?" 51 The Secured Lender, July/August 1995, pp. 20-26

"Secured Lenders Still At Risk From Transformation Rule," 50 The Secured Lender, July/August 1994 pp. 38-40

"An Express Air Flight to Dual Status for Purchase Money," 48 The Secured Lender, July/August 1992, pp. 44-46

"The Gemini Principle: Secured Lender' Security Interest Under the 'Dual Status' Rule," 47 The Secured Lender, September/October 1991, pp. 22-24

"The Role of the SEC in Bankruptcy," 2 Bankruptcy Law Review, Winter 1991, pp. 5-12 (lead article)

Memberships:

1995-2001 Member, Nassau County Chapter, St. John's Law School Alumni
1984-1994 Member, St. John's Law School Alumni Association

COURT ADMISSIONS

United States Supreme Court (1999)
Federal Court of Claims (1999)
Court of Military Appeals (1999)

State of New York (1984)
State of Pennsylvania (1985)