About this office:
Bucking the 21st century's bigger-is-better evolution, Pryor Cashman successfully balances the highly professional with the personal. As a premier, mid-sized law firm in New York, we are known for getting the job done right and doing it with integrity, efficiency and élan. We have assembled the finest legal minds and business acumen in 12 different practice groups encompassing 88 different practice areas.
We consider ourselves an entrepreneurial law firm, unencumbered by bureaucracy - able to break new ground with unique approaches. An environment where lawyers make independent, informed and creative decisions on behalf of their clients - eliminating logjams and avoiding wasteful over-lawyering. We are known for our expeditious and creative handling of complex challenges, our accessibility, practicality, and equally important, our cost-sensible solutions. We know that solutions don't happen in a vacuum. Problems cannot be solved without a deep understanding of the business and circumstances under which the problem arose. This is why we become specialists in your business, acting as valuable partners to you with impressive legal expertise.
Throughout our 44-year history, Pryor Cashman's attorneys have made it a priority to focus on clearing the path for our clients to achieve their distinct goals while at the same time reducing risk and gaining competitive advantage.
Specific Practice & Industry Groups Details:
| Acquisition Financings | Alternative Dispute Resolution (Arbitration and Mediation) |
| Antitrust and Trade Regulation | Apparel, Fashion and Textile |
| Appeals | Asset-Based Lending |
| Bank Mergers and Acquisitions | Bank Regulatory and Administrative Law Issues |
| Banking and Finance | Bankruptcy Court Litigation and Appeals |
| Bankruptcy and Workouts: Tax | Bankruptcy, Reorganization and Creditors' Rights |
| Bankruptcy-Related Counseling and Support In Commercial and Business Transactions | Celebrity Branding |
| Cemetery Law | Charities and Tax-Exempt Organizations |
| Class Action Defense | Complex Contract and Commercial Litigation |
| Condominiums and Cooperatives | Construction Lending |
| Contested Administrative Proceedings and Litigation: Banking | Copyright |
| Corporate Trust: Defaults and Bankruptcies | Corporate Trust: General Representation |
| Corporate | Criminal, Administrative and Regulatory Defense |
| Development, Acquisitions and Sales | Discrimination and Harassment Issues |
| ERISA | Elder Care |
| Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and ERISA | Employment - Executive Talent: Entertainment |
| Employment Agreements and Compensation | Entertainment Litigation |
| Entertainment and Film Production Financings | Entertainment, Film and Sports: Tax |
| Entertainment, Media and Communications | False Advertising |
| Family Law | General Business Law (including choice of entity) |
| Human Resources Counseling | Intellectual Property |
| Intellectual Property, Copyright and Trademark Litigation | International Tax Planning |
| Internet and E-Commerce Law | Investment Company Financings |
| Labor and Employment | Labor-Management Relations |
| Leasing | Licensing |
| Life Sciences | Litigation |
| Mergers, Acquisitions and Private Equity Investments | Mergers, Acquisitions, Buyouts and Dispositions: Tax |
| Mezzanine Lending | Middle Market Lending |
| Motion Picture and Television Talent | Motion Picture, Corporate Media and Entertainment |
| Music | Music Litigation |
| Partnerships and Joint Ventures: Real Estate | Partnerships, Limited Liability Companies and Other Pass-Through Entities: Tax |
| Patent Litigation | Patent Prosecution |
| Personal and Wealth Planning | Plans Relating to Benefits, Stock and Compensation |
| Privacy and Defamation | Private Equity and Hedge Funds: Tax |
| Private Investment Funds | Publishing |
| REITs | Real Estate Development Tax Incentives (New York) |
| Real Estate Financing | Real Estate Litigation |
| Real Estate | Real Estate: Tax |
| Regulatory and Corporate Compliance Investigations | Residential Real Estate |
| Restaurant, Food and Beverage | Restrictive Covenants, Trade Secrets and Duty of Loyalty |
| Securities Litigation | Securities and Corporate Finance |
| Securitizations | Special Representations: Debtors, Creditors Committees, Trustees and Special Fiduciaries |
| Sports | State and Local Tax |
| Syndicated Lending | Tax |
| Tax Controversies | Tax-Exempt Bond Financing |
| Technology | Terminations and Severance Arrangements |
| Theater | Trade Secret Litigation |
| Trademark | Trusts and Estates |
| Trusts and Estates: General Representation | Trusts and Estates: Litigation |
| Wage and Hour Claims | |
Statement of Practice Summary:
Banking and Finance, Bankruptcy, Reorganization and Creditors' Rights, Corporate, Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and ERISA, Entertainment, Media and Communications, Intellectual Property, Labor and Employment, Litigation, Personal Representation, Real Estate, Tax, Trusts and Estates.
Documents by Lawyers at this office
FTC Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising Brad D. Rose, Howard Siegel, Melissa M. Tomkiel, November 18, 2009
Earlier this October, the Federal Trade Commission (the "FTC") released its final Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising (the "Guides"). The Guides revise the FTC's initial guidelines published in 1980, providing advertisers and spokespeople...
New Wage Rate Notice Requirements Affecting All New York Employers
Richard M. Betheil, Joshua Zuckerberg, November 18, 2009
Effective October 26, 2009, New York employers are required to provide written notification to all new hires of their hourly rate, overtime rate (if applicable), and payday. Employers must receive a written acknowledgment from each new hire of said notification. The Department of Labor has now...
Year Established: 1963
Law Firm Affiliations: INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF LAW FIRMS