Firm Profile

While the firm is headquartered in our new Long Island facility we are well positioned throughout New York with offices in New York City, Westchester and Buffalo.

We are proud of the experience and distinctions our attorneys have gained at trial and view such experience as applicable, indeed critical, to all matters whether tried or not. Only by developing an understanding of how the various pieces of investigation and evidence may be used at trial, where they may fit, can a litigator develop a true sense of how to efficiently and effectively conduct the pre-trial process. Our trial experience has afforded us the tools we need and the wherewithal to judiciously apply them from the moment a claim is presented. Litigation needn’t be protracted when the moves that are likely to determine the ultimate outcome are properly planned and implemented early on. While not all cases go to trial, significant trial experience and the insights gained thereby play a critical role in the successful management of litigations in general

BSTS features a comprehensive insurance practice serving our clients in every segment of the insurance industry. Our insurance group is experienced in all types of insurance litigations and coverage disputes. We provide services to a broad spectrum of insurance clients ranging from insured to broker to insurer and all related specialties and specialists. The practice extends to all state and federal courts throughout the United States and abroad. BSTS serves as national litigation coordinating counsel to one of the largest and fastest growing construction insurance brokers/consultants in the country. We handle all insurance related litigation and disputes dealing with construction, products, catastrophic injury, insurance coverage, contracts, homeowners insurance property and liability coverage, life and disability claims, shareholder derivative suits, ERISA claims, brokers’ errors and omissions claims, RICO claims, product liability and unfair trade practices. Likewise, our partners have significant experience acting as appointed arbitrators and mediators in connection with the resolution of a wide variety of such lawsuits and claims.

BSTS features an experienced commercial practice group representing a variety of clients from small local companies to national institutions. Our attorneys handle transactions and disputes involving the businesses of insurance, construction, real estate matters, employment, equipment leases, unfair trade practices, restrictive covenant and non-compete issues, etc. Presently, our major clients range from some of the larger insurance institutions, brokers and consultants, to small insurance companies, insurance brokers and self-insured corporations and municipalities.

BSTS has achieved consistently excellent results in the field of appellate advocacy. We pride ourselves on the impact we have had on the development of law in areas of concern to our insurance and construction clientele. Within the last Five (5) years alone our firm has handled nearly 100 appeals and argued in every New York State Appellate Court, including numerous appearances in the Court of Appeals. We routinely handle appeals involving a wide range of issues including contractual indemnification, grave injury, product liability and general negligence. Attorneys from our Appellate Department are frequently invited to lecture before various bar groups and client gatherings regarding recent developments in the law. Likewise, our appeals group enjoys a unique synergy with the firm’s litigators and trial attorneys. The teams work in unison throughout the pre-trial and trial stages pro-actively confronting issues that are likely to be raised on appeal.

Our partners regularly lecture on a variety of topics before other attorneys, associations and insurance carriers. Our partners have served on the Executive Committee for the Torts, Insurance & Compensation Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, representing Nassau & Suffolk Counties and lecture extensively in that capacity. We recently served as Chairmen of the Torts, Insurance & Compensation Law (TICL) Section of the New York State Bar Association during their semi-annual meeting held in Killarney, Ireland. Our members have chaired the New York State Bar Association Seminar on Labor Law and Construction Accidents and lectured on topics including Construction Accidents, Premises Liability, Toxic Torts, Evidence, Trial Tactics, Insurance Coverage and Ethical Obligations of Counsel. We recently conducted a seminar on the topic of negotiation and settlement of injury claims at the Buffalo Claims Association's Annual Convention. Our attorneys have also been called upon to lecture at the New York State Trial Lawyers Institute, New York State Trial Lawyers Association, and the Bar Association of the City of New York and have judged Moot Court and Trial Advocacy contests at New York area law schools.

Our attorneys are admitted in all four Federal District Courts in New York and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. In addition to the Federal and State Trial, Appellate, Supreme, Civil and District Courts, we also practice before the United States Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, National Labor Relations Board, The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, The New York Division of Human Right and the New York City Commission on Human Rights.