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Senior partner Richard Langsam has many years of experience advising businesses of every size. Richard is responsible for providing a full range of commercial, practical legal advice to help his clients operate and flourish. Richard also applies his extensive transactional expertise in assisting clients with an executive approach in the sale or expansion of their businesses via merger, acquisition, startups, or recapitalization. The following is a representative sample of recent transactions he has worked on:
Related Cases:
- Represented the acquirer of a Martial arts teaching facility in Minnesota ($200,000)
- Represented the majority investor in the acquisition of a chain of residential housing and recreational facilities for disabled persons located in Illinois ($10,000,000)
- Represented the seller of a twenty-five percent (25%) limited liability company interest in an on-line currency trading website (forex trading – $26 million)
- Represented a wholly owned subsidiary of a publicly traded company in the dissolution of a joint venture with an Indian software company, which joint venture had operations in the U.S., Bermuda and India
- Represented a New York fashion designer in a cross border investment (Japan) whereby the designer sold an interest in his brand/business ($3 million)
- Represented the sellers in an asset sale of an industrial plastics company with subsidiaries located in the U.S., Canada and Mexico ($64 million)
- Represented the majority sellers of a regional jewelry chain (21 stores; more than 40 shareholders) in a merger pursuant to Delaware law of the chain into a subsidiary of a publicly owned department store jewelry concession chain ($25 million)
- Represented the acquirer in an acquisition of the assets of a “sealed vacuum connector” manufacturing business ($25 million)
- Represe nted the seller (a wholly owned subsidiary of a publicly traded French conglomerate) in the sale of the stock of a chemicals business ($34 million)
- Represented a signature chef in the recapitalization of his high end restaurant chain to enable expansion into the luxury hotel market ($20 million)
This subspecialty of law addresses workplace accidents occurring at construction sites. These cases, typically brought pursuant to the New York State Labor Law, allow workers involved in building demolition, fall injuries, construction, and/or renovation to recover for personal injuries sustained as a result of the failure of the owner and/or general contractor to provide a safe place to work. Many of these cases result in a worker’s future inability to work. This may consist of the failure to provide adequate and proper scaffolding, ladders, and protective equipment. These accidents may be brought as third-party actions in addition to an employee filing a workers’ compensation claim. We are currently litigating cases involving workers who have been injured by materials falling from heights, falls from ladders and scaffolds, and trips and falls from construction debris.
Our NYC personal injury lawyers have successfully obtained monetary compensation for a victim’s physical and psychological injuries sustained as a result of construction accidents.
Related Cases:
- $950,000 for worker who fell from ladder
- $400,000 for worker who fell from scaffold
This area of law involves the failures on the part of hospitals, doctors, dentists, or other health professionals to properly diagnose and treat medical and dental conditions, including obstetrical malpractice resulting in injuries at birth; pediatric malpractice; surgical malpractice, unexpected death, misdiagnosis, and delayed diagnosis of cancer, failure to properly render emergency room treatment; failure to properly perform cosmetic surgery; podiatric malpractice and failure to properly diagnose and treat dental problems. Some of the cases we are currently litigating in this area include a doctor’s failure to diagnose lung cancer in a 54-year-old man resulting in his death; a hospital’s failure to render appropriate medical care for a stab wound resulting in infection and corrective surgeries; a doctor’s improper prescription of Viagra to a cardiac patient causing his death; a hospital’s failure to properly treat a 25-year-old patient resulting in her death; a hospital’s failure to properly perform a catheterization resulting in permanent nerve damage; a podiatrist’s failure to properly perform a bunionectomy resulting in permanent impairment; a dentist’s failure to properly diagnose an abscess resulting in permanent injuries; a dentist’s failure to properly perform a tooth extraction resulting in perforation of the patient’s sinus.
Our NYC personal injury lawyers have successfully obtained monetary compensation for a victim’s physical and psychological injuries sustained as a result of malpractice.
Related Cases:
- 2.3 Million Settlement in Medical Malpractice Case for Death of 32 year old wife and mother who died from pulmonary embolisms following plastic surgery, when the physician failed to respond to repeated telephone calls until after the woman had died.
- $1 million settlement for woman whose ureters were cut during surgery
- $175,000 settlement for podiatric malpractice
This subset of personal injury holds municipal entities, such as the City of New York, the New York City Transit Authority, New York City Housing Authority, the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), and the New York City Department of Education, liable for their negligence, which include a case against the Department of Education for allowing a 14-year-old student to be severely beaten by other students while on school property, resulting in brain injuries; the New York City Transit Authority for defective doors on the subway resulting in crushing leg injuries to an existing passenger; New York City Police Department for police brutality.
Our NYC personal injury lawyers have successfully obtained monetary compensation for a victim’s physical and psychological injuries sustained as a result of New York City’s negligence.
Related Cases:
- Confidential settlement for 11 year old brutally stabbed by an assailant in a NYCHA elevator resulting from a lack of building security
- $500,000 settlement against public housing facility for lack of security, enabling someone to access premises resulting in sexual assault
- $450,000 settlement against New York City Department of Education for improperly releasing eight year old child to unauthorized person, who sexually assaulted her
- $435,000 verdict against New York City Transit Authority for failing to properly remove snow and ice from exterior subway stairs
- $380,000 judgment against State of New York for knee injury to motorist resulting from collision with NYS Thruway snow removal vehicle.
- $290,000 settlement against the County of Westchester for defective boardwalk
- $150,000 verdict against MABSTOA/NYCTA for failing to properly pull up to bus stop resulting in passenger’s exit from rear bus door into a pothole
This burgeoning area of the law has become particularly relevant with the growth of nursing home facilities in response to our aging population. Our law firm deals with a nursing home’s failure to provide an acceptable standard of care to its patients, resulting in injuries that may range from debilitating bed sores to amputation of limbs and even death. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic, we are also representing negligence cases relating to covid related injuries and death.
Our NYC personal injury lawyers have successfully obtained monetary compensation for a victim’s physical and psychological injuries sustained as a result of nursing home negligence.
This area of law involves a breach of a landlord or owner’s duty to its tenants and/or visitors to provide safe premises. This extends to cases involving defective sidewalks and interior stairs, deficient lighting, the failure to clean up spills and debris, or the failure to properly remove snow and ice. Our lawyers are currently litigating cases where a pedestrian was caused to trip and fall on an exterior carpet in front of a hotel, which was not properly affixed to the sidewalk area; a tenant was caused to trip and fall due to a cracked interior step and a broken handrail, and a visitor to an apartment building was caused to slip and fall on a freshly mopped floor without any warnings as to its condition.
Our NYC personal injury lawyers have successfully obtained monetary compensation for a victim’s physical and psychological injuries sustained as a result of premises negligence.
Related Cases:
- Confidential settlement for 11 year old brutally stabbed by an assailant in a NYCHA elevator resulting from lack of building security
- $400,000 for pedestrian caused to trip on depressed sidewalk grating as a result of constant truck traffic in commercial parking lot
- $350,000 for pedestrian caused to trip on cracked sidewalk
- $300,000 for pedestrian caused to trip and fall on metal roadway plates improperly placed during the course of construction
- $250,000 for ambulance worker’s slip and fall on ice
- $235,000 for tenant caused to slip and fall on freshly mopped floor
- $200,000 for pedestrian caused to trip on moving company debris left on sidewalk in front of building
- $155,000 for malfunctioning store escalator resulting in shopper’s fractured ankle
- $150,000 for tenant on scooter caught in pothole in building courtyard
- $137,500 settlement for pedestrian caused to trip and fall on defective sidewalk in front of store
This area of law involves injuries sustained as a result of products that have been improperly designed or manufactured or contain inadequate warnings concerning their use or side effects. These defective products may consist of machinery used at a workplace that is improperly guarded, consumer products that do not contain adequate warnings regarding use, or drug warnings that do not properly inform of the risks associated with the drug. We are currently involved in litigation against a drug manufacturer for failing to properly warn of the side effects of an anti-malarial drug resulting in cognitive brain injury to a 16-year-old boy.
Our NYC personal injury lawyers have successfully obtained monetary compensation for a victim’s physical and psychological injuries sustained as a result of defective products.
This area of personal injury law involves negligence on behalf of motorists for injuries sustained by other motorists, bicyclists, and/or pedestrians who are struck by motor vehicles. We are currently litigating a case where a bicyclist was injured when the operator of a motor vehicle parked his car and negligently opened his door without looking, slamming into the bicyclist. We also have successfully represented pedestrians who were struck by vehicles (including pedestrians struck by bicyclists), and persons injured in multiple-vehicle car crashes.
Our NYC personal injury lawyers have successfully obtained monetary compensation for a victim’s physical and psychological injuries sustained as a result of car accidents.
Related Cases:
- $3Million settlement for passenger in car who sustained traumatic brain injury
- $1.9Million settlement against Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority for vehicular accident killing five year old boy
- $750,000 settlement for 85 year old pedestrian hit by car
- $600,000 settlement for passenger in one car accident
- $150,000 settlement for bicyclist hit by open door of parked car
- $150,000 settlement for patient who was a passenger in ambulette involved in car accident upon her transfer to rehabilitation facility
- $150,000 settlement for sixteen year old pedestrian hit by car
This area of law generally involves the wrongful exposure to chemicals and substances by the offending party, resulting in injuries and illnesses. Among the cases we have litigated is a case against the United States government on behalf of veteran soldiers who were exposed to depleted uranium while serving in the United States military in Iraq.
Our NYC personal injury lawyers have successfully obtained monetary compensation for a victim’s physical and psychological injuries sustained as a result of being negligently exposed to toxic substances.
Related Cases:
- $1.1Million settlement for 5 year old’s exposure to lead paint
- $750,000 settlement for infant’s lead paint exposure
- $250,000 for patient’s contraction of Legionnaire’s disease while hospitalized
Richard has spent many years assisting clients in the acquisition and sale of their businesses. He has counseled clients in such diverse areas as the sale of a regional chain of jewelry stores, the purchase of a vacuum sealed connector business, the sale of a chemical manufacturing business, and the purchase of a martial arts studio. As a transactional lawyer in New York, he has successfully used his skills to help his clients consummate numerous complex business transactions.
Related Cases:
- Represented the acquirer of a Martial arts teaching facility in Minnesota ($200,000)
- Represented the majority investor in the acquisition of a chain of residential housing and recreational facilities for disabled persons located in Illinois ($10,000,000)
- Represented the seller of a twenty-five percent (25%) limited liability company interest in an on-line currency trading website (forex trading – $26 million)
- Represented a wholly owned subsidiary of a publicly traded company in the dissolution of a joint venture with an Indian software company, which joint venture had operations in the U.S., Bermuda and India
- Represented a New York fashion designer in a cross border investment (Japan) whereby the designer sold an interest in his brand/business ($3 million)
- Represented the sellers in an asset sale of an industrial plastics company with subsidiaries located in the U.S., Canada and Mexico ($64 million)
- Represented the majority sellers of a regional jewelry chain (21 stores; more than 40 shareholders) in a merger pursuant to Delaware law of the chain into a subsidiary of a publicly owned department store jewelry concession chain ($25 million)
- Represented the acquirer in an acquisition of the assets of a “sealed vacuum connector” manufacturing business ($25 million)
- Represented the seller (a wholly owned subsidiary of a publicly traded French conglomerate) in the sale of the stock of a chemicals business ($34 million)
- Represented a signature chef in the recapitalization of his high end restaurant chain to enable expansion into the luxury hotel market ($20 million)
This subspecialty of law addresses accidents that occur during the course of a person’s employment. A personal injury case for negligence against the offending parties may be brought in addition to an employee filing a workers’ compensation claim, and are known as third-party lawsuits. Compensation in the personal injury lawsuit includes pain and suffering for the injuries sustained, which is not recoverable in workers’ compensation claims. We are currently handling cases that involve a telephone worker’s trip and fall in an office due to frayed carpeting, a delivery worker’s fall from a defective loading dock, and an ambulance driver’s slip and fall resulting from a building owner’s negligence in failing to properly clear snow and ice from the building’s premises.
Our NYC personal injury lawyers have successfully obtained monetary compensation for a victim’s physical and psychological injuries sustained as a result of workplace accidents.