New York Lawyers

Family and Divorce Law

8279 River Street, PO Box 38, Elizabethtown, NY 12932

For the first half of her career, Debra was a prosecutor, and she spent the latter half specializing in matrimonial and family law. She is an experienced mediator and collaborative divorce practitioner as well as a recognized expert in working with victims of domestic violence. Debra believes that legal battles are more harmful to families than helpful, and is passionate about helping people find ways to make their own decisions for their families, rather than leaving their outcomes in the hands of a stranger in a black robe. When court is unavoidable, Debra aims to educate and support people to make the legal process less costly, scary, uncertain, and stressful. In her spare time, Debra works with Zonta International to improve the lives of women and girls in her local community and around the globe. She loves travel, good food and wine, tennis, and spending time with her husband and children enjoying all of the outdoor activities available in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State where they make their home.

Bankruptcy Law

707 Westchester Ave suite 302, White Plains, NY 10604, USA

Area of Practice: Default Management & Financial Litigation

Intellectual Property Law

1075 Central Park Avenue, Suite 306, Scarsdale, NY 10583

Dennis Angel is a noted authority on United States and foreign copyright law as well as the highly specialized area of legal protection of literary titles. Prior to founding The Law Offices of Dennis Angel in 1977, he was an associate for four years at the law firm of Johnson & Tannenbaum. Since 1977, Mr. Angel has given legal opinions as to the availability of titles for numerous television shows and motion pictures as well as opinions involving the ownership of motion picture and related rights in the United States and abroad.

Civil Litigation

55 Broadway, FL 23, New York, NY 10006

Managing Partner Derek Sells began his legal career at the prestigious Washington, D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and continued on to the Washington, D.C. Defender Service as a Senior Trial Attorney. In 1995 Derek joined what is today known as The Cochran Firm. He successfully represented, as co-lead counsel with firm founder Johnny Cochran, a diverse list of clients covering a wide variety of legal matters. In 2002 Derek was selected as Managing Partner of The Cochran Firm and since then he has amassed an extraordinary record of million dollar verdicts and settlements, exceeding over $300 million to date. Derek is a graduate of Dartmouth College (Class of 1985) and Yale Law School (Class of 1988). In addition to his leadership role at The Cochran Firm he has taught trial advocacy at various seminars, including those sponsored by the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, the New York State Bar Association and Harvard Law School. He is a member of the New York and Washington, D.C. bars. Derek resides in Queens, New York with his wife and two sons.

Criminal Defense Law

111 Broadway suite 701, New York, NY 10006, USA

Area of Practice: White Collar Criminal Defense & Complex Civil Litigation Mr. Janey has substantial litigation experience that is on regular display at courthouses across the country where he is either admitted to courts in those jurisdictions or admitted for those particular cases. In addition to New York State and Federal courts within the Second Circuit, Mr. Janey is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Eastern District of Michigan, the Western District of Michigan and the District Court for Colorado. He has also appeared pro hac vice in federal and state courts in Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Alabama, as well as California and Nevada. Mr. Janey’s litigation experience in financial services and securities litigation is noteworthy and has been reflected in his ability to successfully navigate challenging legal issues in both complex civil matters, including SEC investigations that were resolved prior to any enforcement actions being filed, and white-collar defense matters involving allegations based on intricate financial transactions. Mr. Janey is defense counsel in the largest automotive-oriented private equity fund fraud in the history of the United States. In 2018, Mr. Janey co-led with his former partner Robert Gottlieb the Ponzi scheme trial of sports radio talk show host, Craig Carton, resulting in a substantially reduced sentence from the Government’s recommendation to the court. Over the past 8 years, Mr. Janey has increasingly become a “go-to” lawyer by individuals and wholesale distributors across the United States from the healthcare industry in either complex civil matters where they have been sued by large pharmaceutical companies for trademark infringement or trafficking in counterfeit product as well as those charged by law enforcement in federal prosecutions for violating healthcare fraud statutes, such as violating the federal anti-kickback statute. In this area, Mr. Janey has successfully blocked the attempt by a large pharmaceutical company to seize assets of a judgment debtor in the post-judgment collection phase of the litigation. He also successfully defeated civil RICO and fraud claims by large pharmaceutical companies. In the white-collar context, in 2022, Mr. Janey co-led the historic criminal trial of Larry Doud, the former chief executive officer of Rochester Drug Cooperative who was charged with drug-trafficking in connection with his business selling controlled substances to pharmacies in the face of what the Government alleged to be “red flags” of diversion. In 2022, Mr. Janey was recognized for excellence by Super Lawyers. He has been recognized as one of America’s Top 100 “high stakes” litigators. In both 2022 and 2021, Mr. Janey was listed in the New York Times as among the Lawyers of Distinction’s “Power Lawyers.” In 2017, the New York Law Journal named Mr. Janey as among the 22 “Distinguished Leaders” in the New York legal industry.