Newburgh, NY

Brian M. Mittman

Brian M. Mittman is the Managing Partner/Owner at Markhoff & Mittman, P.C. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1995 and the Pennsylvania Bar in 2020. He specializes in Workers’ Compensation, Social Security Disability, Long Term Disability, Personal Injury, and General Litigation. He graduated Cum Laude from Brooklyn Law School (1994) and the University of Rochester (1991). He is highly active in professional and community organizations, including serving on multiple boards and as President of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Memorial Scholarship. He is also a published author and frequent lecturer. He received the Institute for Jewish Humanities - Attorney of the Year award in 2006. Outside of work, he coaches youth sports and plays ice hockey.

Evan M. Foulke

Evan M. Foulke established Foulke Law Firm on June 3, 1999. He has dedicated his career to representing clients harmed by negligence and discrimination for 35 years. He has a long history of successful jury verdicts in New York and New Jersey, with multiple verdicts exceeding $1 million. In 2015, he was named to the Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame by the New York Law Journal. He also achieved the largest recorded verdict against the State of New York ($5,299,000 total judgment) in December 2017. He has written and argued numerous appeals in state and federal courts in New York and New Jersey.

Joseph E. O’Connor

Joseph has been practicing law for over twenty years and is currently the managing partner of the firm. He is a lifelong resident of the Hudson Valley and relies on his connections to the community to best serve his clients. Joseph graduated from Brown University in 1993 and played both division one football and golf for the Brown Bears. He graduated from St. John’s University School of Law in 1997. Joseph dedicates a majority of his time to representing seriously and catastrophically injured individuals harmed by construction, motor vehicle, motorcycle, and bicycle accidents, as well as those harmed by defective products.

Bruce A. Schonberg

Attorney Bruce A. Schonberg, Esq., has more than 35 years of legal experience in personal injury and criminal defense. He was an Orange County District Attorney for approximately six years, gaining extensive experience trying criminal cases. He then spent nine years as an insurance defense lawyer for Allstate, Nationwide, and State Farm, handling thousands of personal injury claims. This background provides him with insight into how insurance companies evaluate claims. Today, he exclusively represents individuals injured in car accidents and other personal injury accidents.

As a persuasive, inventive trial attorney, Christopher T. Karounos concentrates his practice on representing individuals seriously injured by the negligence of others. He has handled cases arising from assaults, motor vehicle crashes, all manner of slip, trip, or fall injuries, watercraft collisions, trucking incidents, construction defects, motorcycle accidents, and worksite injuries. Chris is one of only a small handful of lawyers Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney. He is a former Adjunct Professor of Law at Rutgers University Law School-Newark for advanced trial presentation and served as Head Coach for the Law School’s National Mock Trial Team, and a longtime Barrister for the Bergen County Pashman Civil Inns of Court. Chris is equally comfortable explaining the complexities and nuances of a case to a jury as he is when informing and supporting his clients at each step of their case and explaining the litigation process. For many years Chris has also successfully handled numerous commercial litigation and trial matters. He is a successful appellate advocate, having won several important appeals for both his personal injury and commercial litigation clients over the years. Chris is a former volunteer EMT-D with nearly 20 years of experience in trauma situations. Having treated and transported hundreds of injured patients, he brings a unique understanding of clients’ trauma experiences from their injury locations and uses that knowledge when he vigorously fights for their rights throughout their cases. Having attained a Biology degree with a biomedical concentration, served as an EMT/Crew Chief &Trainer, Chris uses his understanding of medicine, science, and his trial law skills and experience to zealously advocate for his clients against the insurance defense companies and, when needed, to a Judge and Jury.