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Rapaport Law Firm has a twenty-five year history of providing valuable opportunities for students and recent college graduates with opportunities to gain hands-on experience in the law. During the summer of 2018, we welcomed Claudia Villalona, a junior at Brown University, as a Summer Intern at our firm. Ms. Villalona, who has studied abroad in

Marc Rapaport has been selected to the 2017 New York Super Lawyers list. Each year, no more than five percent of New York lawyers are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice

In 2017, attorneys Marc Rapaport and Meredith Miller of Rapaport Law Firm filed a proposed class action lawsuit against SKYC Management and Greisman Realty alleging that residents of fifty apartment buildings in Manhattan and the Bronx were victims of rent and security deposit overcharges. We are demanding financial damages and injunctive relief on behalf of

Rapaport Law Firm’s employment lawyers have led the battle to enforce the wage and overtime rights of New York City’s building superintendents. Particularly in New York City’s low income neighborhoods, powerful landlords exploit and abuse immigrant workers by requiring them to work 80-hour work weeks without compensation for overtime. Our recent federal wage lawsuit against

Hungarian camerawoman Petra Laszlo’s attack of a refugee and child yesterday has brought about international condemnation of widespread indifference to the plight of refugees. Ms. Laszlo was fired from her job. Not surprisingly, Ms. Laszlo is affiliated with the Jobbik party, a Hungarian right-wing group that espouses anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic views. We hope that if

Last week, Rapaport Law Firm obtained the first Appellate Division, First Department decision recognizing that the only prerequisite for obtaining a judgment of divorce under D.R.L. §170(7) (irretrievable breakdown) is a statement by the plaintiff that the parties’ marital relationship is irretrievably broken. The First Department upheld the decision by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Deborah

More than 3 million people telecommute for their jobs. But some big corporations, such as Yahoo and Best Buy, are bucking the trend. Is telecommuting a trend in reverse? Or has the train already left the station? “The subcontext to what Yahoo and Best Buy have done is that there are all sorts of hidden

Marc Rapaport’s article regarding federal and state laws that prohibit pregnancy discrimination in the workplace was recently featured on the legal news website, TheLaw.tv. In his article, Marc discusses important steps that victims of pregnancy discrimination should take to protect their legal rights under federal and state anti-discrimination laws. Marc has effectively handled pregnancy discrimination

Earlier this year, I had my first encounter with an attorney who openly resorted to anti-Semitism as a litigation tactic. This occurred in a divorce proceeding that is now pending in a county in upstate New York. The attorney in question submitted court papers that were laden with epithets that had a decidedly anti-Semitic flavor

New York’s Appellate Division for the Second Department is, in all likelihood, the busiest appellate court in the United States. The justices of the Second Department hear appeals from trial courts in 11 different counties, ranging from rural Dutchess and Putnam Counties to urban Brooklyn and Queens. The Second Department’s decisions offer a kaleidescopic view