New York, NY Lawyers

Health Care Law

113 E 39th St, New York, NY 10016, USA

Joanita Gakami is a New York and New Jersey attorney whose practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, healthcare litigation, regulatory compliance, employment disputes, and high-stakes business disputes. She currently serves as General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer for Dr. Keloid – Scar & Cosmetic Center and the Jones Family Office, where she oversees litigation strategy, regulatory and compliance matters, transactional advisory work, collections and reimbursement disputes, and enterprise-wide legal risk management. Ms. Gakami has extensive experience representing businesses, physicians, healthcare entities, and executives in state and federal litigation, arbitration proceedings, and pre-suit negotiations. Her practice includes commercial contract disputes, business torts, restrictive covenant litigation, wage-and-hour matters, healthcare reimbursement disputes, fraud and misrepresentation claims, and complex motion practice.

Maritime Law

88 Pine St suite 700, New York, NY 10005, USA

John Nicoletti is the managing partner of the firm with more than 46 years of domestic and international insurance coverage litigation experience. John represents the interests of major international and domestic underwriters in federal and state courts throughout the United States. He advises clients on a full range of insurance and reinsurance matters, with a focus on marine, inland marine, commercial property & casualty and energy insurance. John also counsels clients following pollution incidents on how to respond to the incident in compliance with federal and state law (e.g., Oil Pollution Act of 1990, Clean Water Act, CERCLA and state equivalents), on coordinating with governmental agencies responding to the incident, and on how to manage third-party claims arising out of the incident. In addition, John regularly represents a variety of interests in the shipping and transportation industries in federal and state courts, as well as in arbitration, throughout the United States in connection with lawsuits arising out of maritime casualties, pollution incidents, cargo damage, charter party disputes, maritime liens, salvage, personal injury and commercial disputes. John has also authored or reviewed and supplemented many open cargo policy forms for multiple domestic underwriters and upon request reviewed and at underwriters’ request prepared risk assessment reports on cargo policy forms offered by the major brokers. Further, John has been, and is, lead counsel for multiple insurers on COVID claims and litigations, riot/vandalism, weather-related and terrorism catastrophes, flood/wind/named storm/deductible/hurricane and sublimit controversies, home owners’ policy litigation defense, corrosion analysis, fire losses, cyber risk, allocation, exhaustion and occurrence analysis, all-risk and builder’s risk policies, policy and reinsurance wording and forms analysis, building and crane collapses, transportation accidents, boiler and machinery, utility and power generation loss, contamination, arson and fraud, defense of insurers against public transportation agency first-party lawsuits, reinsurance arbitration, federal multi-district disaster litigation, chemical plant loss, oil company claims, refinery loss and related energy loss, on shore and off shore energy loss, coal and gold mining loss, satellite loss, defense of officers and directors, whistle blower defense, defamation defense, products liability defense, commercial marine coverage disputes, warehouse liability, marine cargo, bills of lading disputes, construction accidents, construction project sequence analysis, defense of serious personal injury, litigation of commercial and real estate disputes, bankruptcy, employee-related issues, land use, financial guaranty, retrospective premium, advertising liability, and product recall. John Nicoletti argues motions and appeals in various federal and state courts. He has litigated as U.S. counsel in international commercial, insurance and reinsurance disputes, applying U.K., Bermudian, French and Spanish law, represented U.S. clients in foreign insurance and commercial disputes, and assisted foreign clients seeking discovery in the U.S. regarding foreign litigations. John has represented foreign clients in commercial disputes. John has litigated cases in federal and state courts throughout the United States, including New York, New Jersey, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Hawaii, the U.S. Virgin Islands and West Virginia. John has authored articles, made presentations as part of industry panels, and lectured on multi-layer approaches to ambiguity questions, weather related catastrophes, ensuing loss, punitive damages, business interruption, occurrence issues, cyber and CGL insurance trends, and claims leadership.

Tax Law

620 8th Ave,, 33rd Floor, New York, NY 10018

John is a member of the firm's executive committee, the co-managing partner of Seyfarth’s New York office, and also co-chairs the firm’s national tax practice. John practices federal, state and local tax law, and advises public and private clients on tax issues relating to corporate mergers and acquisitions, international transactions, restructurings, consolidations, financing, real estate (including REITs), tax free like kind 1031 exchanges, subchapter S corporations, partnerships, joint ventures, and limited liability companies. He is highly skilled in shaping tax-efficient real estate transactions, including the formation, operation, and liquidation of REITs and UPREITs.

Medical Malpractice Law

600, 217 Broadway, New York, NY 10007, USA

[email protected] Trial attorney John Beatty limits his practice to a small number of clients and to significant medical malpractice and negligence matters, including construction accidents, burn injury cases, motor vehicle accidents, premises liability cases and defective products cases. Since starting his own firm in 2019 John has already helped recover nearly $15 million dollars for injured New York families in verdicts and settlements.* In a 2020 settlement prior to filing suit John helped recover over $10,000,000.00 for a young girl scalded in a hair salon. Whenever you call BEATTY LAW, you will get John himself on the phone. Not an associate or paralegal. John’s experiences before becoming an attorney as a construction laborer and a NYPD supervisor give him a unique perspective and skills to investigate difficult cases and achieve justice for our clients. John has been called a “Matador in the Courtroom”, and “Fierce”, “deadly”, and “elegant” by his jurors. John’s dedication to serving clients and helping them achieve the justice they deserve is legendary. Many clients have become like family. Notably, John has multiple seven figure verdicts and settlements during trial for unwitnessed slip and falls. In each case the injured party had a previous injury to their leg or feet. In each case the defendants had refused to settle the case, arguing at trial that the victim was already badly injured. John has been featured in the New York Law Journal and New York Verdicts and Settlements and in the press related to construction worker safety. John earned one of the highest premises liability verdicts in New York State in 2016, and has been recognized repeatedly for helping litigate some of New York State’s highest verdicts and settlements through 2020. As a police supervisor John oversaw hundreds of vehicle accident preliminary investigations, including those involving fatal pedestrian collisions. John has proven time and time again that eyewitness accounts can be disproved by irrefutable evidence, such as videotape, often despite a guilty motorist’s claim that vehicle accidents were the fault of the deceased. John’s investigative skills have also uncovered multiple instances of corporate cover-ups, falsification of official accident and incident reports, and other wrong-doing. Achieving justice for innocent, injured victims –especially those who cannot speak for themselves–motivates John to look harder, dig deeper, and not accept assurances that everything was done properly, safely, as required by law or “by the book.” Coming from a large police family, John worked his way through college first as a construction laborer in Local Union No. 79 –on construction and building projects here in New York City. The grandson of a Union Sandhog, treasurer of Local 47, John has been around the construction industry for decades. John graduated magna cum laude from the City University of New York, received his Masters from Harvard, and his law degree from Fordham Law School, where he graduated with honors. John is admitted to practice law in state and federal courts in New York and Massachusetts. John is also proud to be trial counsel to reputable and well respected law firms in NYC. *Recoveries include verdicts and settlements as Trial Counsel and annuity payments to injured parties. Areas of Practice Significant medical malpractice and negligence matters, including construction accidents, burn injury cases, motor vehicle accidents, premises liability cases and defective products cases Honors, Awards and Achievements Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Million Dollar Advocates Recognized as a Top 25 Brain Injury Attorney, New York State National Board of Trial Advocates, Trial College Fellow New York State Trial Lawyers Association, Elected Board Member (Former) NYPD Honor Legion, Member Recognized as an NYPD Community Police officer of the Year by Police Commissioner Nat’l Assoc of Distinction Counsel, Fellow Recognized by Best Attorneys of America Lectures and Writings Adjunct Professor of Trial Advocacy, Fordham University Law School Disclaimer: Past results are not an express or implied prediction of future success, and should not be construed as such. Past results cannot guarantee future performance or case outcome. Any result in a single case is not meant to create an expectation, promise, guarantee or prediction of a similar result in a future case. Each case has many different factors, including different facts and different applications of law. Verdicts may be reduced by comparative fault, contributory negligence or following appeal. Results will always differ on a case-by-case basis.

Securities Law

233 Broadway suite 2020, New York, NY 10279, USA

JOHN D. STEWART [email protected] Download John's vCard John is a Senior Associate in the firm's New York office. John joined the firm in 2015. He specializes in litigation and arbitration, concentrating in the areas of business and commercial litigation; employment and securities law, including CRD expungement arbitrations; and criminal defense. John has successfully represented clients in Federal Court, State Court and in AAA and FINRA arbitrations. Before joining Baritz & Colman LLP, John was an active duty Officer in the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, where he served as a military prosecutor and defense attorney in Colorado, Korea and Afghanistan, earning a Bronze Star and two Army Commendation Medals. He is currently a Major in the United States Army Reserve where he serves as a Brigade Judge Advocate for a medical unit in Massachusetts. As a Judge Advocate, John has appeared before more than 30 courts-martial and negotiated dozens of pre-trial agreements on behalf of the government as well as individual clients. Prior to his military service, John was an Associate at a prominent large law firm in Manhattan where he concentrated his practice on bankruptcy litigation and transactional lending work. John also does pro bono work on behalf of veterans in the New York area. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Tufts University in 1995, a Master of Social Work from New York University in 1998 and his Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Fordham Law School in 2007. John is admitted to the New York State Bar and the United States District Courts for the Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York.