Lewis Silverman
Rutherford & Christie, LLP
Practice focuses on constitutional law, education law, employment litigation, and premises liability. Serves as counsel for municipalities and school districts in constitutional, special education, sexual misconduct and employment discrimination cases.
Representative Experience:
-- Has extensive trial experience in New York State and Federal Courts-- Serves as counsel for school districts and municipalities in employment discrimination cases, civil rights cases, land use and zoning disputes, student discipline cases, special education cases and tuition reimbursement cases
-- Served as Special Counsel for a school district in an administrator’s disciplinary hearing
-- Representation of indicted police officer in civil aspect of manslaughter case
Bar Admissions:
Appellate experience in Federal and New York State CourtsNew York, 1993
Southern District of New York, 1993
Eastern District of New York, 1993
Northern District of New York, 1996·
Author, Defense Of Psychological Injury Claims In Warsaw, Aviation Litigation Quarterly, 2000
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New York Civil Rights Lawyers
