Practice Areas - Appellate Practice
- Medical Malpractice
- Personal Injury
- Employment Law
- Torts
- Civil Liability
- Civil Practice
- Federal Civil Practice
- Complex and Multi-District Litigation
- Child Custody
- Child Support
- Interstate Child Custody
- Parental Kidnapping
- Visitation Rights
- Civil Rights
| - Commercial Litigation
- Commercial Torts
- Uniform Commercial Code
- Commercial Contracts
- Contract Litigation
- Family Law
- Domestic Relations
- Equitable Distribution
- Interstate Support
- Spousal Support
- Insurance Defense
- Negligence
- Premises Liability
- Products Liability
- Wills
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| University | New York University, B.S., Political Science, 1987 |
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| Law School | Brooklyn Law School, J.D., 1991 |
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| Admitted | 1992, New York; 1993, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York; 1994, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 2006, U.S. Supreme Court |
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| Memberships | White Plains, Northern Westchester, Westchester County, Dutchess County and New York State Bar Associations; Women's Bar Association of the State of New York (Co-Chair: Judiciary Committee, 2006-2008; Legislation Committee, 2008—); Westchester County Women's Bar Association (Recording Secretary, 2010—; Director, 2007—; Chair, Appellate Practice Committee, 2007—). |
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| Born | New York, N.Y., December 14, 1965 |
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| Biography | Trustee Scholar. Honors, Moot Court. Assistant District Attorney, Kings County, 1991-1994. Assistant County Attorney, Westchester County, 1994-1995. Senior Associate, Lester Schwab Katz and Dwyer, 1995-1999. Sole Proprietorship of the Law Offices of Annette G. Hasapidis 1999—. Pace University Law School, New Directions Program, Lecturer on Civil Procedure, 2008—. Executive Board Member, Pace University School of Law's Women's Justice Center's "The Friends of Gail," 2007—.
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| Reported Cases | Natiello v. Carrion, --- N.Y.S.2d ---, 2010 WL 2000059, 2010 N.Y. Slip Op. 04397, N.Y.A.D. 2 Dept., May 18, 2010 (anulling determination that mother failed to provide adequate supervision of her 16 year old autistic son and had committed educational neglect of her other emotionally disturbed son); Verdugo v. Seven Thirty One Ltd. Partnership, 70 A.D.3d 600 (1st Dept., 2010) (dismissing the "act of God" affirmative defense, and determining that the existence of 30 mph winds, which caused plywood to become airborne and strike Plaintiff in the head, was not an "unusual, extraordinary and unprecedented event"); Donely v. Valdez, 518 F.3d. 173 (2d Cir. 2008) (reinstating a plaintiffs' medical malpractice action as timely based upon federal accrual and equitable estoppel rules); Ellis v. Chao, 336 F.3d 114 (2d Cir. 2003) (finding that candidate for a union election raised a question of fact whether the Secretary of Labor's decision not to sue to set aside a union election was arbitrary and capricious); Galanos v. Galanos, 20 A.D.3d 450 (2d Dep't 2005) (disqualifying the husband's counsel in a matrimonial action who had represented the wife's father in prior proceedings; the first case in New York to find that a father and child's finances were so inextricably intertwined as to justify disqualification); Massimi v. Massimi, 35 A.D.3d 400 (2d Dep't 2006) (ruling that the husband had commingled marital and separate property, thereby entitling the wife to a distributive award of that property); Northbay Const. Co., Inc. v. Bauco Const. Corp., 38 A.D.3d 737 (2d Dep't 2007) (directing a new trial in breach of fiduciary duty action for the court's failure to properly charge the jury on proximate cause); Xiao Yang Chen v. Fischer, 6 N.Y.3d 94 (2005) (as amicus curiae counsel for the Women's Bar of the State of New York) (ruling that joiner of tort claims in a matrimonial action is permissive, not mandatory). |
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| ISLN | 900492042 |
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