New York, NY Lawyers

Civil Litigation

One Battery Park Plaza, 97 Harvard Drive, New York, NY 10004

Mercedes has defended thousands of cases throughout the country to a favorable result and won over ninety percent of her numerous trials and arbitrations. She regularly litigates business disputes and defends corporations and executives of Fortune 500 companies accused of wrongdoing, including claims of sexual misconduct. Prior to private practice, Mercedes served as an Administrative Law Judge for the New York State Division of Human Rights. During these nine years of service, while a partner at a major regional New York law firm, she presided over three thousand cases brought under federal and state discrimination laws. Mercedes has received several significant honors. Forbes Business American Airlines named Mercedes one of the six most influential women in America. The list includes dignitaries such as former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Notre Dame Law School presented Mercedes with the prestigious Graciela Olivarez Award for outstanding achievement as a leading Hispanic lawyer of the highest ethical and moral standards. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor received the same award. MultiCultural Law magazine also profiled Mercedes in a Leadership Interview titled, Reaching Back to Diversify the Legal Professional. Human Resources Magazine named Mercedes as one of the Nation’s Most Powerful Rising Employment Attorneys. Law Dragon selected Mercedes as one of the leading corporate employment lawyers in the country. This distinction celebrates her illustrious and exceptional contributions to the legal profession. Widely regarded as a top national legal analyst, she regularly appears on television to discuss critical legal issues affecting the nation.

Corporate and Transactional Law

201 W 85th St, 16D, New York, NY 10024

Labor Law

600 Third Avenue, 22nd Floor, New York, NY 10016-1915

Area of Practice: Labor and Employment Law A graduate of Columbia Law School (1962) and the University of Michigan (Economics) (1959), Michael is a labor and employment law attorney who began his career with the New York Regional Office of the National Labor Relations Board. Since entering private practice in 1965, he has represented management in all facets of labor and employment law, both in for-profit and not-for-profit settings, including in his capacities as Partner with Aranow, Brodsky, Bohlinger, Benetar, Einhorn & Dann; Partner with Benetar Isaacs Bernstein & Schair; Managing Partner with Benetar, Bernstein, Schair & Stein; and Senior Partner and now Of Counsel with Bond, Schoeneck & King. He is a frequent lecturer and, as well, contributing editor and author to major federal and state labor and employment law treatises and periodicals, and to Chambers Global Practice Guide, USA Regional Employment. In 2015 Michael was honored with a “Lifetime Achievement Award” by the New York State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section. He also has been elected as a Fellow of the American Bar Association; a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers; and a Fellow of the New York Bar Foundation. In 1992, his firm, Benetar Bernstein Schair & Stein was the recipient of The Reliance Award for Excellence in Education, Outstanding Small Business in New York City. Michael has chaired the Labor & Employment Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and is a member of its Executive Committee. He has chaired, as well, both the Labor Committee of the New York City Bar Association and the Federal Labor Standards Legislation Committee of the American Bar Association. Michael also is a long-standing member of the New York State Bar Association Committee on Diversity and Inclusion and the NYU Labor and Employment Center’s Board of Advisors. He has served as well as a member of the New York City Bar Association Committee on Minorities in the Profession and as a judge in its annual Michael Oshima Essay Competition; as a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Special Committee on Youth Outreach; and as a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Section Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Law School Liaisons, including as a judge in its annual Emanuel and Kenneth Stein Law School Essay Competition. Michael has also served as a member of the Departmental Disciplinary Committee, Appellate Division, First Judicial Department; as a member of the Privacy Initiative Task Force, New York State Bar Association; a member of the Governor’s Advisory Panel on Economic Development, New York State (Project 2000); a member of the Law Committee (Labor Section), American Arbitration Association; a member of the Lt. Governor’s Task Force on Plant Closings, New York State; Chair, Subcommittee, Project on Simplification of the Law, New York State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section; and Chair, Committee on Intake and Investigation, Task Force of New York State Division of Human Rights.

Insurance Law

45 Broadway, STE 740, New York, NY 10006

Personal Injury Law

112 Madison Ave 10th floor, New York, NY 10016, USA

Michael Rose has spent his entire career representing accident victims. He is relentless in pursuing justice on behalf of his clients and has become a trusted advisor and a passionate advocate. He has tried numerous cases to verdict and settled many claims resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in recovery for clients, many of which have resulted in seven and eight figure jury verdicts and settlements. Michael’s successes include a jury verdict of over $13 million for a construction worker injured at his place of work; a verdict in excess of $12 million for a retired New York City corrections officer who was injured during her work at a hospital due to faulty construction work; a verdict of $8 million for a woman injured during an auto accident; a verdict for $6 million for a construction worker hurt in a fall and a $8.2 trial win in a medical malpractice case. During one six-month time span, Mr. Rose tried three cases; each independently resulted in a seven-figure jury verdict. His cases are frequently included as among the top results in the state of New York by the New York Verdict Reporter. His jury verdicts and settlements are always amongst the highest reported in the State of New York.