Focusing her practice on family law, Theresa Lechner keeps in mind the physical, emotional and financial needs of her clients and affected children. While managing cases from beginning to completion, she maintains daily client contact and appears regularly in court. Prior to joining DSWK, Theresa served as an associate attorney at another family law firm in Chicago, Illinois. She received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Wisconsin and the Master of Laws degree from IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. While attending the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Theresa served as an extern with the Honorable Judge Angela Bartell of the Dane County Circuit Court. In addition, she served as an extern at both the Family Court Assistance Project Restraining Order Clinic and the Wisconsin Department of Justice, Civil Litigation Unit. Theresa is licensed to practice law in Illinois and Wisconsin.

Elina Lecour is a highly motivated, Spanish speaking attorney with fifteen years of litigation experience in New York and New Jersey available for per diem coverage in the five boroughs of New York City. Lecour Law is a Multi-lingual firm focused on litigation in Supreme, Civil and Housing Court. Conveniently located across the street from the Richmond County Civil and Housing Court allowing last minute emergency coverage or filing.

Bruce H. Lederman is the head of the firm’s litigation practice. Mr. Lederman has extensive trial and appellate experience before both the Federal and New York State Courts and handles all aspects of commercial and real estate litigation. With over thirty years of experience, he has developed a particular expertise in construction disputes, mechanic’s liens, real estate contract enforcement and down payment disputes, real estate title issues, brokerage commission disputes, employee restrictive covenant issues and intellectual property cases. Examples of cases handled by Mr. Lederman can be found by clicking here. Mr. Lederman has written articles on a variety of matters, including time of the essence and closing issues, condominium sponsor liability, mechanic’s liens and federal preemption, which have appeared in the New York State Bar Association Journal, Real Estate Weekly and the New York Law Journal. A featured speaker throughout the legal community, he often lectures on topics including real estate contracts, construction defect litigation, RPAPL 881, access agreements and mechanic’s liens. Mr. Lederman’s experience as a litigator provides him with a unique perspective on transactional matters. He represents numerous developers in the acquisition and sale of multi-family properties, with both traditional and private placement financing. Mr. Lederman’s experience includes the closing of many individual properties as well as large portfolio refinances (involving up to approximately $100 million), securitized and Fannie Mae transactions and defeasance transactions. In 2007, Mr. Lederman represented the seller of the East Harlem Portfolio, one of the largest residential portfolio sales in Harlem’s history, consisting of 49 separate properties with a combined sales price in excess of $200 million.

Nancy is an AV-rated attorney with over 40 years of experience in the commercial litigation, class action defense, and the healthcare/health product defense field. She is national counsel to a Florida-based biotech company that produces allografts and xenografts for surgical transplantation, and to a national senior care provider offering all levels of care (SNF, AL, IL). She has considerable mass tort experience, having managed the litigation for an allograft producer in 1,000 lawsuits involving allograft recipients which arose after a recall of the product was necessitated by an independent (unrelated) recovery agency’s fraudulent activities. Similarly, she was lead counsel for an allograft distributor in a West Virginia MDL in the pelvic mesh arena, achieving excellent results for the company, which had no real presence as a tissue distributor in a product liability cluster. As national counsel to the senior living provider, her firm has, for the past eighteen years, supervised all litigation for its near 300 individual facilities She supervises all tort based litigation for this client, which has enjoyed an unparalleled success rate in low claims initiation and disposition values. Her firm, and litigation team, remains committed to resolving cases through the distinct modalities of trial, arbitration, mediation and substantive motion practice. Nancy also enjoys a long history in infertility litigation. She second-chaired in the trial of the first “test tube baby case”, DelZio v. Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, which was tried in the Southern District of New York in 1978. Since that time, she has been Counsel to several infertility programs for the purpose of risk-management (informed consent issues) and the defense of pending litigation, both commercial and tort-based. She has represented two distinct institutionally-based infertility programs in class actions involving allegations involving “success statistics”. She argued before the New York Court of Appeals the first General Business Law claim regarding infertility treatments (Karlin v. IVF America, 93 NY2d 282(1999)), and currently provides risk management and litigation services to individual infertility practices. She remains involved in litigation for infertility practices, having defended cases involving consent issues, genetic counseling, and cryopreservation issues. Her appellate practice has been diverse, and she has handled numerous appeals in all of the New York Appellate Division Departments, the New York Court of Appeals and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Her appellate practice has included not only products cases, but an array of commercial, professional liability (attorneys and accountants) and coverage matters

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