Dorf Nelson & Zauderer LLP is pleased to announce that Ira. B. Stechel has joined our firm as a partner and will lead the firm’s Tax Department. Ira is a veteran tax lawyer with more than four decades of experience representing individuals, partnerships, and corporations. Clients value his comprehensive experience in navigating the wide range of tax issues encountered in both business and personal contexts, from simple issues to the most complex. Ira’s diverse practice includes significant experience structuring tax efficient transactions and representing taxpayers involved in tax disputes and controversies before various taxing authorities at the federal, state, and […]

Longtime Zeidel & Associates client Major Food Group (MFG) has partnered with renowned hotel brand Hard Rock International on the design and opening of food and beverage facilities in new and existing luxury hotels and resorts. Under multiple master contracts, which Zeidel & Associates was hired to negotiate, MFG will provide guidance on the design and opening of those facilities in the U.S. and abroad. Zeidel & Associates’ attorneys leveraged their years of experience working on master agreements that involve numerous disciplines such as hotel and restaurant development, consulting contracts, branding, publicity rights and other intellectual property protections, and contracts […]

Fullerton Beck Partner Jason Aaron secured summary judgment in a high-exposure New York Labor Law case on behalf of the firm’s client, a waterproofing and restoration contractor who was impleaded into the case by defendant-contractor, seeking contractual and common law indemnification and asserted breach of contract claims for our client’s purported failure to procure insurance. Our client was hired to perform waterproofing and steelwork at a large commercial property in Manhattan, New York. Our client’s employee, the plaintiff, filed suit against the property owner for alleged violations of Labor Law sections 200, 240(1) and 241(6) after his hand was pinned […]