ROBERT K. FISCHL
Miami, Florida, *****
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EDUCATION
Hofstra University School of Law – May,1982
Juris Doctor
Activities: Hofstra Labor Law Forum, Articles Editor Hofstra Conscience, Business Manager
1982 Yearbook, Editor-in –Chief
Hofstra University- May 1979
B.A..Political Science
Activities: Internship, Nassau County, Office of the District Attorney Internship, D.C. Delegate to the House of Representatives Employment History
CONFIDENTIAL
Business Litigation (Nov. 2023 – June, 2024)
Civil Litigation firm
Commercial Litigation
Real Estate Transactions and Litigation
Foreclosure Defense
Personal Injury, Plaintiff
Construction Defect claims
Family law
Responsibilities included drafting complaints, answers, requests for production, responding to requests for production, drafting motions, opposition to motions, and conducting depositions Ward Law, P.A. (Oct. 2021 – Nov. 2023
Senior Attorney
Concentration on Litigation
Personal Injury litigation, Plaintiff
Estate Planning and Litigation
Real Estate litigation
Employment litigation
Criminal Defense
Other litigation as required
Responsibilities included drafting complaints, answers, requests for production, responding to requests for production, drafting motions, opposition to motions, and conducting depositions, mediations and trial work.
Law Offices Robert K. Fischl (Jan. 1994- Sept. 2021) Litigation Concentration
• Personal Injury, Plaintiff
• Premises Liability
• Construction Defect Claims
• Wrongful Death
• Commercial litigation
• Real Estate litigation
• Foreclosure Defense
• Estate litigation
• Matrimonial litigation
• Criminal Defense (Federal and State Courts)
Responsibilities included determining which cases to accept or turn down, drafting complaints, answers, requests for production, responding to requests for production, drafting motions, opposition to motions, and conducting depositions, mediations and trial work. Tried over one hundred cases in my own practice.
Settled a dog bite case after jury selection for one half million dollars, a wrongful death case in which my client had marijuana in his system at time of the accident for six figures. Nassau County District Attorney’s Office (Aug. 1982- Oct. 1993)
• District Court Bureau (Misdemeanors)
• Family Offense Bureau (cases involving spouses, living partners and/ or children)
• County Court Trial Bureau (Felonies)
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Tried over three hundred jury cases involving misdemeanor and felony cases including but not limited to family offenses, child abuse, violations of orders of protection, drug distribution, theft of scientific formula, robbery burglary, assault, driving while intoxicated. Responsible for training junior A.D.A.’s to try cases, prepared standard instructions for the cross-examination of expert witnesses
Admitted: New York, 1983, Florida, 1986, Washington, D.C., 1986 Eastern District of New York-1986, Southern District of New York-1986, Southern District of Florida-2024
Member: Theodore Roosevelt American Inn of Court
Nassau County Bar Association
Guest Instructor and then Visiting Professor- Maurice Dean School of Law at Hofstra University 2015-2020
Responsibilities included teaching second- and third-year law students the skills to succeed in trial practice.