Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, P.C.

Focus and practice areas

The firm practices business law from a base in Uniondale, on Long Island in New York, and dates its founding to 1968. That gives it a long run of work in the region. It sorts its lawyers into practice groups, and those groups cover the main areas a company tends to need over its life.

The core groups the firm names are corporate and securities, commercial litigation, real estate, health law, commercial lending, corporate restructuring and bankruptcy, employment, and trusts and estates. Each maps to a distinct kind of work. Corporate and securities handles the formation, financing, and sale of companies. Real estate covers the purchase, sale, leasing, and development of property. Commercial litigation handles the disputes that reach a courtroom. Trusts and estates helps owners plan how assets pass to the next generation.

The range of work the groups cover

Beyond the core groups, the firm lists a wider set of practice areas. These include intellectual property and technology, cybersecurity and data privacy, environmental law, construction, and zoning and land use. The list also names tax certiorari and condemnation, securities disputes and enforcement, and white collar crime and investigations.

That spread tells you something useful about how the firm is built. A company can bring its financing work, its property matters, and its regulatory questions to one place. Health law sits next to corporate work, which matters for medical practices and hospital systems that face both business and licensing questions. In my opinion, a firm that keeps this many groups under one roof aims to serve clients across the full course of a business relationship.

How matters in these areas usually proceed

Naming a practice group says little about how the work runs, so some context helps. Corporate restructuring and bankruptcy matters move through federal bankruptcy court, where a debtor files a petition and creditors organize to protect what they are owed. The process turns on deadlines, disclosure statements, and a plan that a judge must approve.

Tax certiorari work follows a different track. A property owner who thinks an assessment is too high files a challenge with the local assessing authority, and the matter can proceed to court. Zoning and land use work runs through town boards and planning boards, where an applicant presents plans and neighbors get a chance to respond. These are general descriptions of how such matters proceed, and they show why a client gains from lawyers who handle them often.

Advice work and dispute work

Employment matters, another of the firm's groups, cover both advice and disputes. On the advice side, a lawyer drafts handbooks, reviews contracts, and guides an employer through hiring and firing rules. On the dispute side, the work can reach agencies such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or a state court when a claim is filed. Health law runs on a parallel track of rules, since medical providers answer to licensing boards and to state and federal regulators as well as to ordinary business law.

Commercial lending and corporate restructuring often meet in the same matter. A lending lawyer documents a loan and the security behind it, and if the borrower later runs short, the restructuring group steps in to renegotiate terms or to work through a bankruptcy filing. A client with both needs can move between the two groups inside one firm.

Team size and the people named

The firm reports about 70 attorneys, which places it among the larger business practices on Long Island. A group that size can staff a single matter with more than one lawyer and can keep people who concentrate on narrow fields such as securities enforcement or environmental law.

A few of the firm's lawyers appear in its news items. Michael Faltischek, whose surname forms part of the firm name, features in a published interview. Nicole E. Osborne is named as a partner who presented at a Women's Bar Association of the State of New York convention. Those mentions give a small window into the people behind the practice groups.

Clients and community ties

The firm describes its clients as large and mid-sized corporations, privately held businesses, institutions, and individuals. That mix fits the group structure. A large corporation might use the securities and litigation groups, while a privately held business might lean on corporate, real estate, and trusts and estates work as its owners plan ahead.

Serving individuals alongside corporations gives the firm a second kind of client. Trusts and estates work, together with estate and fiduciary litigation, reaches families and individual owners who need to plan or to settle a dispute over an estate. The firm also states that its attorneys take part in professional groups, corporate and civic boards, and community organizations across Long Island. As a reviewer, I read this as a sign that the firm keeps close ties to the Long Island business community it serves.

What the record shows

Ruskin Moscou Faltischek has practiced since 1968, works from two Long Island offices, and fields about 70 attorneys across a broad set of business practice groups. The firm handles corporate and securities work, litigation, real estate, health law, and a range of regulatory and specialized matters.

A prospective client will want to ask which lawyer would handle a given matter and to learn about that lawyer's background and experience. The firm's own material sets out its groups and its client base plainly, and it gives a solid picture of a full-service business firm on Long Island. In my opinion, the record here is that of a settled, broad-based practice that a Long Island business can approach for most of its legal needs.