Our Litigation Team has earned our firm a reputation for excellence in complex litigation. We have represented clients in virtually every type and size of case in state and federal court actions. Our attorneys have been litigating disputes - large and small - with the benefit of over 90 cumulative years experience. This experience, coupled with the resources available to the firm, has made J&G one of the region's foremost litigation firms.

In all matters, the Litigation Team takes an interdisciplinary approach and, where appropriate, works closely with members of our real estate, tax, municipal, environmental, and creditors' & debtors' rights teams to efficiently address our clients' needs.
A sensitive balance of legal expertise and practical judgment has been and continues to be the hallmark of our litigation practice. J&G's goal is to offer creative and innovative solutions and the highest quality service at a reasonable cost to clients.

• Personal injury
• Employment discrimination
• Real property reduction
• Contracts
• Corporate partnership disputes
• Environmental litigation and regulation (CERCLA, RCRA, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act)
• Insurance coverage
• Civil rights
• Product liability and toxic torts
• Real estate disputes
• Landlord tenant disputes
• Divorce, custody, adoption, and guardianship litigation

If you have a litigation matter that does not appear to be covered by this list, please e-mail our department at info@jacobowitz.com or call us at (845) 778-2121. We will help you or, in the unlikely event that we cannot meet your need, we will refer you to someone who can.

The following are representative cases that reflect some of our accomplishments and illustrate the extensive scope of our experience:

• A cable TV installer in an uninsulated bucket suffered massive electrical shocks from power lines while installing cable on utility poles in Ulster County.
• A construction worker sustained life altering injuries resulting from electrical shocks received while removing vines from a power line at a job site in Rockland County.
• A wrongful death and personal injury action for the family of an engineer, killed in an airplane crash in the Catskill Mountains while en route from a meeting.
• A young boy sustained serious eye injury while participating in a little league baseball game wearing an inadequate batting helmet, when state-of-the-art safety equipment was not made available.
• A federal jury returned a substantial verdict of compensatory and punitive damages against two New York State Troopers in favor of an African-American man and woman based upon an illegal stop and search on Route 17.
• Automobile accident cases, including injuries to a husband and wife when there was a failure to provide adequate warning signs and lane markings; wrongful death of the wife and severe personal injuries for the husband caused by an intersection made hazardous by vegetation obscuring a stop sign.

• A group of condominium owners was awarded significant reductions in their real property taxes because the Tax Assessor had failed to properly apply the law that requires condominium units to be assessed as a rental apartment project.
• A newly constructed industrial plant secured a 50% exemption for its assessment under the Real Property Tax Law.

• A college professor was awarded back pay and counsel fees based on sex discrimination in pay.
  
• Substantial settlement realized for a woman in the transportation industry in a federal sexual harassment case.
  
• Back pay and damages obtained in Family and Medical Leave Act actions.
  
• Significant severance packages negotiated sex and age discrimination claims.
  
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) actions taken due to failure to pay required over time pay.
  
• Unemployment insurance benefit hearings.
  
• Numerous other examples of discrimination claims based on disability, age and sex.
  

• Defense of CERCLA and RCRA based multi-million dollar claims of buried debris, hazardous wastes, and petroleum products
• Defense of RCRA based claims of on- and off-site pollution by an urban gas station
• Clean Water Act claims based on construction storm water drainage and soil disturbance