Practice Areas

Sabino & Sabino is experienced in a wide variety of practice areas and is available to assist you with your legal challenges. Contact us online or call 516.294.3199 to set up a confidential appointment with our legal specialists.

Securities Litigation & Arbitration

We have over twenty years of experience in litigating and arbitrating securities cases before the courts, the government, and the major stock exchanges. As securities lawyers, we have represented individual and business investors victimized by securities fraud and manipulation. We have represented corporations, broker-dealers, and securities industry professionals in court cases, arbitrations, SEC and exchange investigations and proceedings.

We have represented firms and brokers in industry disputes and have advised in major shareholder class actions. Our lead securities lawyer litigator is an experienced NASD arbitrator, and has chaired numerous arbitration cases. He is a published and cited author and lecturer on securities law topics, has frequently appeared on TV, radio, and in print to comment on major securities fraud trials such as Martha Stewart, Tyco, Enron, and the like, and teaches securities litigation and arbitration at a major New York university.

Admiralty and Maritime Personal Injury, and Airline Passenger Liability

In the highly specialized field of admiralty law, we have years of experience representing injured cruise ship passengers and merchant seaman in federal court lawsuits for personal injuries sustained at sea. Our attorneys have published scholarly articles for the most prestigious maritime law journals in the U.S. and internationally, and have litigated in the Staten Island Ferry disaster, and against numerous cruise ship lines and maritime shipping companies and vessel owners.

Representation for Injuries at Sea:
Cruise ship passenger injuries
Fishing accidents
Offshore drilling and oil rig accidents
Barge, Tanker, Water Taxi, Tug Boat, Riverboat Casino, Trawler, Shrimper Accidents
Drowning, explosion or injury on any type of ship

In the field of airline passenger liability, we have represented injured passengers against major airlines for personal injury claims. Our attorneys have contributed scholarly writings concerning the new and comprehensive "Montreal Convention" that governs passenger injury cases in the federal courts.

Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy

With twenty years of experience as bankruptcy lawyers, the law firm of Sabino & Sabino specializes in creditors' rights. After having clerked for a federal bankruptcy judge, our leading creditors' rights attorney is a nationally recognized authority on bankruptcy law, having published a well received book on bankruptcy, authoring dozens of articles on bankruptcy law that have been cited by courts across the nation, and teaching bankruptcy law both to professional groups and at a major New York university. His appearances on TV, radio and in print on the Enron, WorldCom, and other megabankruptcy cases are well known to judges and adversaries alike.

As bankruptcy lawyers, we have represented all manner of creditors, including banks, financial institutions, corporations, trade vendors or lessors, in major bankruptcies across the nation, including virtually every airline bankruptcy and "megabankruptcy" in the last two decades. We have pursued claims as bankruptcy lawyers for creditors, defended creditors against claims for preferences and fraudulent conveyances, worked with creditors and interested parties seeking to buy out bankrupt companies, and represented bankruptcy trustees. Sabino & Sabino bankruptcy lawyers are here to assist you with your bankruptcy and creditors' rights questions.

Arbitration & Mediation

We have years of experience representing both claimants and defendants in complex arbitration and mediation cases before various regulatory and other panels. Our lead attorney is an experienced and trained arbitrator and mediator, including chairing many arbitration panels, including select assignments given by our local judges to resolve complex issues. Our contribution to the scholarly body of work on arbitration and mediation is well known and accepted.

Oil and Gas Law, Energy Law, Public Utilities

Our lead partner in these fields is regularly published in Natural Gas Magazine, the leading monthly publication of that industry, and each year contributes a chapter on legal developments to the Natural Gas & Electrical Power Industries Analysis Yearbook, the leading annual publication of the energy industry. Additionally, our partners routinely appear on television, radio, and in print to comment on gasoline prices, the energy market, industry bankruptcies, and other energy industry news. For over twenty years, we have acted as legal counsel to major oil and gas industry players in significant securities litigations, bankruptcy cases, and the like, building on a wealth of experience with energy companies and public utilities.

Real Estate

Our lead real estate attorney is a member of the prestigious American College of Mortgage Attorneys, and possesses over twenty years of experience and expertise representing commercial and individual clients as buyers, sellers, lenders, sponsors, and developers. We are proficient in every aspect of real estate transactions, from all conceivable sides.

Corporate Law and Governance, and Accountants' Liability

Often quoted in the media on pressing corporate law issues, such as Comcast's bid for Disney, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and government investigations and reforms in the stock exchanges and in corporate boardrooms, our lead attorney has a wide range of knowledge and nationally recognized expertise in corporate law, governance, Sarbanes-Oxley issues, and accountants' liability, to name a few. We also assist small businesses with routine "start up" issues such as incorporation, the creation of limited liability entities, and other advice.

Personal Law

We specialize in assisting individual clients with important legal documents such as will preparation and drafting, durable powers of attorney and health proxies, estate planning, and house purchases and sales.

International Law

Our lead attorney has taught international business law at a major New York university, including all important topics such as CISG ("Contracts for the International Sale of Goods"), COGSA ("Carriage of Goods Over the Sea Act"), and international arbitration. We have advised foreign clients on doing business and litigating in the United States, "hi- tech" overseas clients on their US operations and subsidiaries, participants in multinational transactions, and parties to complex arbitrations.

Commercial Transactions

Both of our lead attorneys teach the Uniform Commercial Code and commercial transactions at a major New York university, and possess a wealth of experience in UCC and CISG transactions. Both are routinely published in the leading publications of the commercial transactions, secured lending, and leasing industries.

And If the Name Sounds Familiar...

Our lead attorneys teach law at a major New York university...are frequently seen and quoted on TV, radio, and print as expert legal commentators...often write scholarly and practical articles for major legal and business publications...are involved in local bar and professional organizations, and frequently lecture to attorney and other business groups.