Laura Fischer

Company: Fischer Harbage & Associates
Profession: Trust & Estate Attorney
Power Team: Legal
Phone: 917-501-3411
Business Address: 137 Cambridge Place, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Email: laura@laurafischerlaw.com
Website: http://www.laurafischerlaw.com/

Products and/or services offered:

Basic and Complex Estate Planning, Probate, Estate Administration, Tax Planning, Trust Funding, Guardianship and Medicaid Planning

Ideal Referrals:

Anyone who just had a baby and doesn't have a Will in place, persons who own property or who have recently purchased property, and anyone who has recently lost someone and needs help with the probate process or related Courts & Estates matters

Professional Bio:

Laura is a '98 graduate of Duke Law School. She has over 20 years of experience as a lawyer and has had her own practice for over 10 of those years. Her practice focuses primarily on Estate work, comprised of Basic and Complex Estate Planning, Probate and Administration.  

She was educated in mediation at the Peace Institute in New York City and trained in the Civil Court of Brooklyn. 

Flat rate packages are offered for Basic Estate Plans. Rates are hourly for Complex Estate Planning. Sliding scale rates and payment plans are always offered as well.  

Laura maintains offices in both downtown Manhattan and the Fort Greene area of Brooklyn. Please contact our office to make an appointment at either location.

Randi L. Karmel

Company: Randi L. Karmel, PLLC
Profession: Matrimonial Attorney
Power Team: Legal
Phone: 212-755-0224
Business Address: 780 Third Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10017
Email: rkarmel@randikarmel.com
Website: www.RandiKarmel.com

Products and/or services offered:

Litigation, mediation and settlement of matrimonial and family law matters, including, but not limited to Divorce, Parenting Time,  Custody, Maintenance, Child Support, Equitable Distribution, Orders of Protection, Restraining Orders, Abuse and Neglect matters

Ideal Referrals:

Attorneys, therapists, owners of businesses

Professional Bio:

Matrimonial and Family Law Attorney from 1999-present.  Assistant District Attorney, District Attorney's Office, Kings County, litigated cases assigned to the Domestic Violence Bureau, Investigations Bureau, Felony Trial Bureau and Major Narcotics Investigations Bureau, 1991-1996. Examining Attorney, 1996, Special Counsel and Deputy Inspector General, City of New York Department of Investigation, 1996-1997. Private Practice defense litigation, 1997-1999. Law Offices of Randi L. Karmel, Esq. Matrimonial and Family Law litigation, 1999-2005. Partner, Karmel Miller, P.C., 2005 - 2006; Randi L. Karmel, PLLC, 2006-. Certified to represent children in the First and Second Judicial Departments. Certified to represent clients in Domestic Violence matters in the Integrated Domestic Violence Court.

Joshua J. Spiegel

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Company: Horzepa, Spiegel & Associates, PC
Profession: Business Law (Corporate, Employment, IP)
Power Team: Legal
Phone: 212-710-9510 
Email: Jspiegel@horzepalaw.com
Business Address: 30 Wall Street 8th Floor, New York, New York 10005
Website: www.horzepalaw.com/index.php

About Joshua J. Spiegel:
Mr. Spiegel is a co-founder of the firm and serves as counsel to a diverse corporate and private clientele on matters related to general corporate, commercial business, employment and real estate law, including the structuring, negotiation, and execution of deals, and the drafting of agreements. Mr. Spiegel has extensive transactional experience in the areas of entity formation and governance, shareholder rights, employment matters, technology and content licensing, business development, partnerships and joint ventures, resolving business disputes, and commercial and residential real estate transactions. Mr. Spiegel represents businesses in industries including media (television, film, music, and publishing), technology and software, real estate development and investment, construction, retail/e-commerce, fashion/textile and business consulting.

Prior to founding the firm, Mr. Spiegel held director-level positions at The Princeton Review, Inc., a leading international education publishing company, and Cybersettle, Inc., a premier online dispute resolution company, where he focused primarily on complex business transactions, government contracting, and operational initiatives. Additionally, Mr. Spiegel engaged in the practice of law as both a sole practitioner and an associate of The Law Offices of Fredrick Harrison Kaplan, LLP. Mr. Spiegel received his JD from Brooklyn Law School and his B.S. degree (magna cum laude) from New York University where he graduated as a Founders Day Scholar. Mr. Spiegel is admitted to practice law in the State of New York.

In addition to practicing law, Mr. Spiegel is involved in the New York City music scene. Mr. Spiegel serves as a mentor to emerging artists and writers in addition to being a published songwriter.

Danielle Diaz

Company: Update Legal
Profession: Legal Staffing, Placement & Recruiter
Power Team: Legal
Phone: 212-993-2225
Email: ddiaz@updatelegal.com
Website: updatelegal.com

Products and/or services offered:

Legal staffing- attorneys and paralegals.  Contract assignments, temp to perm and permanent placements. We specialize in eDiscovery- providing the attorneys, the space, the technology and Project Managers if needed.  We provide legal staffing of foreign language attorneys as well.

Ideal Referrals:

Decision makers at law firms ( any size ), litigation attorneys especially, but any practice area, whether it's litigation or corporate, is a great referral.  Also, General Counsel and in house counsel within companies of all sizes.

Professional Bio:

For over 20 years, law firms and corporate legal departments have depended on Update Legal to provide them with superior candidates for temporary and permanent assignments. Update Legal is your contact for attorneys, paralegals and litigation support staff. And if you are a legal professional, we're your contact for new opportunities. 

With offices in ten locations across the US, Update Legal is one of the preeminent legal recruiting and placement firms in the country. But we never forget what made us that way. 

At Update Legal, we pride ourselves on responsiveness. Our clients have ever-changing staffing needs, so we're available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We provide clients with temporary, temporary-to-permanent and permanent placements as their needs dictate. And we've established long-term relationships that, in some cases, have existed as long as we've been in business. Specialties: Contract attorney and paralegal placement, Discovery Management, Legal placement.

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