Eisenberg & Baum, LLP

Where the firm puts its focus

Employment law is the core of this practice. The firm handles discrimination, sexual harassment, and wrongful termination cases, along with whistleblower and workplace retaliation claims. It also takes personal injury and nursing home abuse matters. Real estate work and trusts and estates fill out the list of areas named on the firm's own pages.

That range covers two different kinds of client need. Some people arrive after something went wrong at a job or in a care setting, and they want a claim pressed. Others come with a property deal or an estate plan that calls for careful paperwork and clear timing. The firm lists attorneys across these areas on its Our People page.

Employment discrimination claims tend to follow a defined route. A worker often files a charge with a state agency or the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission before a lawsuit can move forward. That first step sets the clock for much of what follows, which is why early fact-gathering carries weight in this kind of case.

Nursing home abuse and personal injury work runs on a different track. These matters turn on medical records, incident reports, and the accounts of people who saw what happened. A firm handling them has to act quickly to preserve records and reach witnesses while memories stay fresh.

The real estate and estate planning side asks for a quieter kind of care. Real estate matters run on contracts, title, and closings, where the aim is to keep a transaction clean and on schedule. Trusts and estates work rewards precise drafting and, later on, steady help for families administering an estate. Both reward close attention to detail.

The attorneys the firm names

Douglas Eisenberg and Eric M. Baum lead the firm as co-founding partners and co-managing partners. The roster lists ten more lawyers: Joseph P. Gaffney, Lorenzo V. DeLillo, Dov Goldman, Brian Ullman, Andrew Rozynski, Juyoun Han, David John Hommel, Adriana Alcalde, and Michael Quinn as partners, with James A. Goldstein listed as of counsel. The Our People page gives names and titles.

The firm states that some of its lawyers hold an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell. That mark comes from a peer review process tied to legal ability and ethical standards. As a reviewer, I read a stated rating like this as a measure of how other lawyers view the attorneys, and I weigh it as one input among several a client would gather.

A roster of a dozen attorneys puts real depth behind a firm this size. It means a client's matter can draw on more than one lawyer's background, and it lets the firm keep several practice areas running at once. The titles on the page show a settled partnership with two people at the top and a clear line of counsel behind them.

A law center for deaf and hard of hearing clients

Andrew Rozynski co-directs a part of the firm that represents people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Staff work in a signing environment that includes a CODA attorney and a deaf liaison. The firm delivers its services in English, American Sign Language, and Spanish.

This setup answers a practical access problem. Legal work moves through interviews, document review, and hearings, and each of those depends on clear communication. A firm that keeps signing staff in house can take a client's account directly, so the client's words reach the lawyer in the client's own language. In my opinion this is the most distinctive thing the firm puts forward.

The three-language service reaches Spanish-speaking clients too. Those clients can give their account in their own language from the first meeting. For matters that hinge on exactly what a person said or understood, that kind of direct communication can shape the record that a case rests on.

Disability rights and individual claims

David John Hommel founded the firm's Disability Rights group. Cases in this area often rely on statutes such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, which set out access rights and the process for enforcing them. A claim might involve a workplace, a public accommodation, or a service, and each path carries its own rules on notice and filing.

The employment and civil rights side of the firm points toward clients who bring claims as individuals. The firm describes trial lawyers who represent people in discrimination and harassment cases. I read the overall mix as a practice built around claimants who need someone to carry a case forward for them.

Offices and reach

The firm keeps offices in four places: Manhattan, Manhasset, and Rhinebeck in New York, plus Miami in Florida. Its attorneys hold licenses in states across the country, and the firm says it works with individual and business clients both nationally and abroad. A member of the Florida Bar meets clients there by appointment.

That multi-state footprint fits the work the firm lists. Employment and civil rights disputes arise wherever a client lives or works, so admission in several states widens who the firm can take on. The New York offices anchor the practice, and the Miami office extends its range into the Southeast.

Working with clients across states puts weight on remote intake and clear scheduling. The firm lists a video phone option, which lets a deaf client reach the office directly in sign even from a distance. For clients outside New York and Florida, the spread of state licenses decides which attorney can appear on a given matter.

How the firm presents its work

The firm's public material centers on the services it provides and the clients it serves. It names its practice areas, its attorneys, and its language capabilities in plain terms. For someone weighing options, that mix of employment focus, disability rights work, and signing staff gives a usable picture of what the firm does week to week.

A prospective client can weigh a firm like this on a few practical points: whether it handles the matter at hand, whether it can communicate in the client's language, and whether it has lawyers admitted where the case belongs. On each of those, the firm's pages give a direct answer a reader can check for themselves.

The site does not state a founding year, so the firm's age stays outside this review. What the pages do establish is concrete: a New York firm with a Florida office, a named group of partners led by two co-founders, and a law center built for deaf and hard of hearing clients.