Melville, NY November 3, 2023 – Freiberger Haber LLP is pleased to announce that co-founding partners, Jonathan H. Freiberger and Jeffrey M. Haber, have been named by Super Lawyers Magazine® …
By: Jeffrey M. Haber On October 31, 2023, the Appellate Division, First Department, unanimously affirmed the dismissal of a fraudulent inducement claim alleged in connection with the purchase of real …
By: Jeffrey M. Haber In New York, as in other jurisdictions, settlement agreements “are judicially favored, will not lightly be set aside,” and will be enforced “with rigor and without …
By Jonathan H. Freiberger Once an attorney appears in an action on behalf of a client and becomes the attorney of record, the client is free to change counsel by …
By: Jeffrey M. Haber Arbitration is an alternative form of dispute resolution where the parties voluntarily agree that a neutral, private person will resolve any legal disputes between them, instead …
By: Jeffrey M. Haber A couple of months ago, we examined NW Media Holdings Corp. v. IBT Media Inc., 2023 N.Y. Slip Op. 30875(U) (Sup. Ct., N.Y. County Mar. 22, 2023) …
By Jonathan H. Freiberger This Blog has previously addressed the question of whether a binding settlement can be reached through a series of emails as opposed to a fully integrated …
By: Jeffrey M. Haber Affinity fraud is a type of investment fraud. In this form of fraud, the person committing the fraud preys upon members of an identifiable group, such …
By: Jeffrey M. Haber Negligent misrepresentation and fraudulent inducement are, to some extent, cut from the same cloth. Both causes of action involve false statements. Often, though not always, the …
By Jonathan H. Freiberger As previously noted in this Blog, there are two “components and constitutional predicates of personal jurisdiction.” Keane v. Kamin, 94 N.Y.2d 263, 265 (1999). “One component …
