Melville, NY Lawyers

Personal Injury Law

445 Broadhollow Rd suite 232, Melville, NY 11747, USA

Ian Chaikin is the founding member of Chaikin Trial Group and a licensed attorney in NY, NJ, and FL. He began his career at a top NYC personal injury firm, quickly earning a reputation as a fierce advocate. Known for saying, “You come in as a client, but you leave as a friend,” Ian has secured numerous Million- and Multi-Million-Dollar recoveries. He’s been named a New York Super Lawyer and is a proud member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. His work has been featured in New York Magazine’s “Personal Injury Leaders,” and his firm is recognized as one of NYC’s top boutique trial firms. With over 20 years of experience, Ian combines hard work, strategy, and personal attention to get results. He holds finance and law degrees from Hofstra University, where he won the oral argument competition. A Long Island resident, Ian is fluent in English, Hebrew, and Spanish, and enjoys family time, snowboarding, and weightlifting.

Personal Injury Law

145 Pinelawn Rd suite 130n, Melville, NY 11747, USA

Jessica Kronrad is a senior trial associate with The Odierno Law Firm, P.C. and a year 2000 graduate of Hofstra University Law School. She has a diverse background in law practice and vigorously advocates on behalf of negligence victims. Throughout her career, Ms. Kronrad has obtained millions of dollars in trial verdicts and settlements. She has dedicated her career to holding insurance companies accountable and ensuring injured victims receive just compensation. Ms. Kronrad has over 20 years of experience with a wide variety of negligence cases from inception through trial verdict. She appreciates the importance of prosecuting each case expeditiously while making sure our clients receive maximum value. Ms. Kronrad is admitted to practice law before all the Courts of the State of New York and is admitted to Federal Court in the Eastern, Southern and Western Districts of New York State.

Securities Law

58 S Service Rd, 200, Melville, NY 11747

Mario Alba is a partner in Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP’s Melville office. He is a member of the Firm’s Institutional Outreach Team, which provides advice to the Firm’s institutional clients, including numerous public pension systems and Taft-Hartley funds throughout the United States, and consults with them on issues relating to corporate fraud in the U.S. securities markets, as well as corporate governance issues and shareholder litigation. Some of Mario’s institutional clients are currently involved in securities cases involving: Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc.; Reckitt Benckiser Group plc; Livent Corporation; Ryanair Holdings plc; Southwest Airlines Co.; Impax Laboratories Inc.; Super Micro Computer, Inc.; Skechers USA, Inc.; and XPO Logistics, Inc. Mario’s institutional clients are also involved in other types of class actions, namely: In re National Prescription Opiate Litigation, In re Epipen (Epinephrine Injection, USP) Marketing, Sales Practices and Antitrust Litigation, Forth v. Walgreen Co., and In re Humira (Adalimumab) Antitrust Litigation.

Personal Injury Law

145 Pinelawn Rd suite 130n, Melville, NY 11747, USA

Michael A. Spector was born Mineola, New York in 1977. He obtained a Bachelor Arts Degree in Marine Affairs with minors in Economics and Chemistry from the University of Miami in 1998. In 2003, Michael graduated from Hofstra University Law School. Michael worked at Tell, Cheser & Breitbart LLP as outside counsel for several insurance companies. Michael has also worked in-house at The Robert Plan and as staff counsel, then trial counsel in the no-fault litigation department of Travelers Insurance Company. Michael joined the no-fault litigation department in 2007, and since then has appeared in every civil court in the City of New York and in every district court on Long Island. Michael’s outstanding success in settling cases and ability to obtain Plaintiff verdicts has prompted him in being lead counsel on all AAA arbitration and motion-calendar matters. In 2025, Michael was recognized as one of the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 in New York

Intellectual Property Law

576 Broad Hollow Road, Melville, NY 11747

Ray Farrell is a senior partner and co-founder of the firm with extensive experience in advising U.S. and international clients of all sizes on the effective development and utilization of their patent and trademark portfolios, with an eye towards achieving optimal return on the resources dedicated by a given client to its intellectual property strategy. Additionally, he advises clients on navigating freedom-to-operate issues to help them minimize risks while executing product launches or brand development. This experience was acquired over twenty-five years working with clients on the development of complex IP portfolios and commercial product launches in highly litigious environments. After first learning what each client’s unique business goals and objectives are, he then works with the client to formulate an overall intellectual property strategy to achieve those milestones. He continuously works with the clients to ensure that any changes, either to the client’s vision or the laws potentially affecting that vision, are addressed by advising the client of appropriate options, thereby ensuring a highly efficient and continuously optimized plan of execution. With a continuous attitude of “we are just getting started,” Mr. Farrell enjoys perfecting client service delivery processes and developing the careers of aspiring IP professionals as well as learning alongside them in order to offer the most effective and efficient team to best serve the needs of the firm’s clients. Mr. Farrell also has a strong belief in mentoring startup entrepreneurs so they can receive the early guidance necessary to set them on a sound trajectory for their venture’s success. To this end, he continuously donates extensive amounts of time educating startup entrepreneurs on the benefits of a sound intellectual property strategy to optimize their venture’s growth and either their continued development or ultimate exit. To help expand upon his individual mentoring efforts, he was principally involved in organizing participation in the MIT Venture Mentoring Outreach Program, a consortium made up of prestigious scientific research laboratories, academic institutions, business incubators, and a business accelerator.

Personal Injury Law

145 Pinelawn Rd suite 130n, Melville, NY 11747, USA

Long Island accident lawyer Scott F. Odierno was born in Bronx, New York, in 1967, and moved to Long Island in 1973. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Medieval and Renaissance History from Brown University in 1989. At Brown, Scott was captain of the Baseball team and a First Team All-Ivy catcher. Scott joined The Odierno Law Firm, P.C. upon graduating from New York Law School in 1992. His practice is concentrated in two fields: Personal Injury and No-Fault litigation. He is admitted to practice in Federal Court in both the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York in addition to all New York State Courts. Scott is a partner in The Odierno Law Firm, P.C. and his practice includes all manner of personal injury representation, from intake to trial. He has successfully resolved or tried cases in every major area of personal injury practice, including motor vehicle and truck accidents, labor law and scaffolding injuries, premises falls, and lack of security cases. Scott oversees all motion and appellate practice in the personal injury department. In 2003 Scott engineered the firm’s no-fault litigation department, which has successfully represented over a thousand medical providers in obtaining no-fault benefits prematurely denied by insurance companies.

Wills and Trust Law

290 Broadhollow Road, Suite 220E, Melville, NY 11747

Scott G. Kaufman is an attorney and founding partner of Heitner Kaufman P.C. in Melville, New York. Surrogate’s Court litigation and administration are central to his practice, which also includes Article 81 guardianship proceedings. He leads the firm with fellow founding partner Brian R. Heitner; its office is on Broadhollow Road. Guardianship work has brought Kaufman appointments in several capacities: court evaluator, guardian ad litem and counsel for alleged incapacitated persons. Courts have also appointed him as counsel to the Public Administrator. In a separate role, he served as a court examiner in the First Judicial Department. That assignment involved reviewing the annual accountings filed by guardians. Queens County figures in his earlier public service. His first position in that work was as an assistant district attorney. Before entering private practice, he worked in the Law Department of the county’s Surrogate’s Court as a court attorney. His professional activities also include writing and teaching. Kaufman has written articles for the Queens County Bar Bulletin on Surrogate’s Court practice and lectures at continuing legal education seminars. He serves as vice chairman of the Queens County Bar Association’s Committee on Surrogate’s Court Practice. Kaufman’s undergraduate degree is from Queens College. He earned his law degree, a Juris Doctor, at the City University of New York School of Law.

General Practice Law

68 S. Service Road, Suite 100, Melville, NY 11747

Personal Injury Law

395 N Service Rd suite 302, Melville, NY 11747, USA

Zandra D’Ambrosio is the Managing Attorney. Ms. D’Ambrosio is admitted to practice law in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Florida. Ms. D’Ambrosio completed her Bachelors Degree in only three years from Hofstra University, where she repeatedly made the Dean’s List and graduated Magna Cum Laude. Ms. D’Ambrosio received her Juris Doctor from Hofstra University School of Law, where she was the Managing Editor of Family Court review and was published in the Family Court Review. Currently, Ms. D’Ambrosio works closely with each paralegal and oversees each case from inception to resolution or trial. In addition to her management role with the firm, Ms. D’Ambrosio manages and maintains a large caseload. She is responsible for drafting the majority of legal documents in connection with the firm’s personal injury cases. Ms. D’Ambrosio is a member of the American Bar Association and New York Bar Association.