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Timestamp: 2019-04-26 06:30:05+00:00

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The following case summaries illustrate the breadth of her experience and the complexity of some of the issues she has successfully presented on appeal.
Mawere v. Landau, 130 A.D.3d 986 (2d Dep't 2015) (reversing dismissal of a complaint involving breach of an oral joint venture agreement to purchase a nursing home and legal malpractice).
Perl v. Meher, 18 N.Y.3d 208 (2011) (holding, inter alia, that in a threshold personal injury case, a plaintiff is not required to proffer "contemporaneous" numerical measurements of range of motion in order to defeat summary judgment).
Natiello v. Carrion, 73 A.D.3d 1070 (2d Dep't 2010) (annulling determination that mother failed to provide adequate supervision of her 16 year old autistic son and had committed educational neglect of her other emotionally disturbed son).
Verdugo v. Seven Thirty One Ltd. Partnership, 70 A.D.3d 600 (1st Dep't 2010) (dismissing the "act of God" affirmative defense, and determining that the existence of 30 mph winds, which caused plywood to become airborne and strike Plaintiff in the head, was not an "unusual, extraordinary and unprecedented event").
Valdez ex rel. Donely v. U.S., 518 F.3d. 173 (2d Cir. 2008) (reinstating a plaintiffs' medical malpractice action as timely based upon federal accrual and equitable estoppel rules).
Ellis v. Chao, 336 F.3d 114 (2d Cir. 2003) (finding that candidate for a union election raised a question of fact whether the Secretary of Labor's decision not to sue to set aside a union election was arbitrary and capricious).
Galanos v. Galanos, 20 A.D.3d 450 (2d Dep't 2005) (disqualifying the husband's counsel in a matrimonial action who had represented the wife's father in prior proceedings; the first case in New York to find that a father and child's finances were so inextricably intertwined as to justify disqualification).
Massimi v. Massimi, 35 A.D.3d 400 (2d Dep't 2006) (ruling that the husband had commingled marital and separate property, thereby entitling the wife to a distributive award of that property).
Xiao Yang Chen v. Fischer, 6 N.Y.3d 94 (2005) (as amicus curiae counsel for the Women's Bar of the State of New York) (ruling that joinder of tort claims in a matrimonial action is permissive, not mandatory).
Felty v. Felty, 66 A.D.3d 64 (2nd Dep't 2009) (the mother, who was a victim of domestic abuse and had lied to the father in order to safely flee from Kentucky to move to New York, started a custody action in New York after living there for six months. However, she allowed the children to visit the father for two weeks of that period. The motion court ruled that this absence from New York was not temporary and so the mother did not prove that New York had jurisdiction because the children had not resided there for six months. The appellate court reversed because the children's visit was temporary and because the mother never intended to return to Kentucky; she had maintained ail of her New York licenses and voting registration, while the father never prepared a permanent home for the children in Kentucky. Further the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act, the mother should not have been penalized for taking actions, like lying to the father, in order to protect her and the children from abuse).
Lazy S Group I v. Gomez, 660 A.D.3d 999 (2d Dep't March 31, 2009) (reversing the grant of summary judgment to vendor in specific performance action where questions of fact remained whether the communications between the parties to the sale of real property and the parties' conduct at the closing constituted a counteroffer or a repudiation of the original contract, whether there was an actual agreement between the parties regarding the updated certificate of occupancy and whether there was a breach, and if so, which party was in breach, whether the conduct of parties to contract for sale of real property waived breach of contract, or whether actions were taken to further the negotiation of a new contract between the parties rather than as a continuation of performance under the original contract).
Pesantes v. Komatsu Forklift USA, Inc., 58 A.D.3d 823 (2d Dep't 2009) (reversing the denial of summary judgment to a forklift manufacturer where, in opposition, the plaintiff had raised a new theory of liability and had presented no evidence supporting that theory).
Valdez ex rei. Donely v U.S., 518 F.3d.173 (2d Cir. 2008) (reinstating the medical malpractice action as timely based upon federal accrual and equitable estoppel rules).
Ellis v. Chao, 336 F.3d 114 (2d Cir. 2003) (finding that a candidate for a union election raised a question of fact whether the Secretary of Labor's decision not to sue to set aside a union election was arbitrary and capricious).
Galanos v. Galanos, 20 A.D.3d 450 (2d Dep't 2005) (disqualifying the husband's counsel in a matrimonial action, where counsel had represented the wife's father in prior proceedings. This is the first case in New York to find that a father and his adult child's finances were so inextricably intertwined as to justify disqualification).
Massimi v. Massimi, 35 A.D.3d 400 (2d Dep't 2006) (ruling, inter alia, that the husband had commingled marital and separate property, thereby entitling the wife to a distributive award of that property, totaling more than $500,000).
Northbay Const. Co., Inc. v. Bauco Const. Corp., 38 A.D.3d 737 (2d Dep't 2007) (directing a new trial in a breach of fiduciary duty action for the court's failure to properly charge the jury on proximate cause).
Xiao Yang Chen v. Fischer, 6 N.Y.3d 94 (2005) (appearing as amicus curiae counsel for the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York, the Court of Appeals ruled that joinder of tort claims in a matrimonial action is permissive, not mandatory).

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