David J. Abeshouse
Member
Email: Davidlaw@optonline.net

Practice Areas: Arbitration; Mediation; Business Litigation; Business Arbitration; Business Mediation; Business Dissolutions; Commercial Litigation; Commercial Arbitration; Commercial Mediation; Contract Litigation; Corporate Litigation; Real Estate Litigation; Civil Litigation; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Unfair Competition; Franchise Arbitration; Franchise Litigation.

Admitted: 1983, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1993, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 2004, U.S. Supreme Court

Law School: Vanderbilt University, J.D.

College: University of Pennsylvania, B.A.

Member: Nassau County (Member, ADR and Commercial Litigation Committees; Chairperson, ADR Committee, 2004-2006), New York State and American (Member, Litigation and ADR Sections) Bar Associations; New York City Bar; New York County Lawyers Association (Member, ADR Committee). The New York Virtuosi Chamber Symphony (Board Member and General Counsel, 1988-2007 and President, 2000-2002); Health and Business Alliance, Inc. (Board Member, 2004-); Long Island Entrepreneurs Group, Inc., (Member and VP/Legal Counsel, 2000-); East Meadow Chamber of Commerce; Gotham Networking; University of Pennsylvania Secondary Schools Committee, Alumnus Admissions Interviewer, 1995-2009.

Biography: Business Litigator, Arbitrator, Mediator. The practice is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs, professionals, and small to medium-sized companies resolve their business disputes and conflicts creatively through negotiation, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) forums such as arbitration and mediation, or court litigation. American Arbitration Association (Arbitrator, Commercial Panel of Neutrals, 2002-); National Arbitration Forum (Arbitrator, 1999-; Mediator, 2006-); International Centre for Dispute Resolution (Arbitrator, Commercial Panel of Neutrals (2004-); Private ADR practice (2003-). 0020Extensive CLE and ACE training in Alternative Dispute Resolution. Completed special transformative mediation further certification training 35-hour course through the Hofstra University School of Law Mediation Clinic and the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation, January 2009. Senior Advisor, International Legal Malpractice Advisors, LLC, Washington, District of Columbia, 2004-2007. Co-founder, Attorney Round Table (Nassau County, 2001-present).

Reported Cases: Living Music Records, Inc. v. Moss Music Group, Inc., 827 F.Supp. 974 (S.D.N.Y. 1993); Sheldon Rabin, M.D., P.C. v. Gary S. Hirshfield, M.D., 223 A.D.2d 535, 636 N.Y.S.2d 117 (2d Dept. 1996); Marshall Rattner v. Village of Pleasantville, 611 F.Supp. 648 (S.D.N.Y. 1985); Bishop v. Rubin, 228 AD.2d 222, 643 N.Y.S. 2d 108 (1st Dept. 1996); DeSouza v. Sbarro, Inc., 221 A.D.2d 309, 635 N.Y.S.2d 475 (2d Dept. 1995); Di Paolo Machine Works, Ltd. v. Prestige Equipment Corporation, 998 F.Supp. 229 (E.D.N.Y. 1998); Sciarra v. Medical World Communications, Inc., 728 N.Y.S. 2d 748 (2d Dept. 2001).

Born: Brooklyn, N.Y.

ISLN: 909566225