Purchase, NY

Andrew S. Buzin

Andrew S. Buzin is a distinguished trial lawyer known for his extensive experience in personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death, employment law, and business litigation. With over two decades of experience, Mr. Buzin has secured numerous multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements, including a landmark $28 million verdict in a negligent supervision case against a public school district. Mr. Buzin’s legal expertise spans various complex areas, allowing him to represent clients in high-stakes litigation and deliver results. His work has led to national recognitions, such as being named a finalist for the 2019 Public Justice Trial Lawyer of the Year Award. In addition to his work in the courtroom, Mr. Buzin is a dedicated educator, serving as an adjunct professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he shares his knowledge of trial advocacy, written advocacy, and legal writing with aspiring lawyers. His practice has earned him consistent recognition in Super Lawyers since 2015, an honor awarded to no more than 5% of attorneys in each state. In recent years, Mr. Buzin has been selected to an even more exclusive group by being named as a Super Lawyers Top 100 in the New York-Metro area. Beyond his legal practice, Mr. Buzin is actively involved in legal education and mentorship, participating in seminars and panels aimed at developing the next generation of legal professionals. His dedication to the law, coupled with his robust trial experience, has solidified his reputation as a fierce advocate for plaintiffs. As an attorney deeply committed to delivering justice, Mr. Buzin remains at the forefront of civil litigation, continually taking on challenging cases that require innovative legal strategies. His success in both personal injury and business litigation makes him a versatile, highly respected, and sought-after figure within the legal community. His success spans a broad range of litigation, from catastrophic injury cases to complex business disputes, and he has participated in cases that have resolved for nearly $100 million.

Rebecca Foley Greenberg

Rebecca is a partner of The Greenberg Law Firm LLP. She has prosecuted and defended multiple personal injury, medical malpractice, civil rights, legal malpractice, corporate, real estate and business litigation matters, and is well versed in the area of internal investigation and legal analysis. She also has a focus in the area cannabis law, consulting clients in the areas of liability exposure and state and local compliance. She is an advocate of drug policy reform at the state and federal level. She is currently on the Board of Trustees for the Washington Heights Corner Project. She has written and lectured on the constitutionality of Internal Revenue Code 280E, medical malpractice liability exposure for recommending cannabis in New York State and implementing medical cannabis in primary health care. In 2019 her alma mater, the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, honored her with the award for Rising Star in the Private Sector of Litigation. Her litigation experience has included corporate and financial matters involving municipal liability, corporate responsibility in multiple settings including motor vehicle sales and distribution.

William Cafaro

William Cafaro is the principal of the Law Offices of William Cafaro, and he has taken several eight-figure verdicts and has obtained numerous seven figure verdicts and settlements. After law school, Bill Cafaro worked as a criminal defense attorney in Northern California. In 1981, he returned to his native New York to serve as a Narcotics Prosecutor in the Bronx District Attorney’s Office until 1986, when he turned his focus to personal injury as a sole practitioner in Jackson Heights, Queens. He is a firm believer in exhaustive trial preparation, with particular attention to medical animations and illustrations of the specific injuries sustained by each client. Over the last six years, Mr. Cafaro has applied his litigation skills toward representing employees aggressively in overtime and discrimination cases. He has represented hundreds of workers successfully in individual wage and hour cases, including class and collective actions. He also litigates discrimination cases in both the federal and state courts. Fluency in Spanish helps Mr. Cafaro to communicate with clients in their native language.

Brielle Goldfaden

Brielle has worked exclusively as a plaintiffs’ personal injury and medical malpractice advocate for some of the top law firms in New York City. Brielle began honing her litigation skills, and was selected to join the Juvenile Justice clinic representing indigent youth in Newark, NJ. However, Brielle’s interest in fighting for the rights of injured people began long before her formal schooling. The daughter of a Partner at a prominent personal injury firm in New Jersey, Brielle has dedicated her career to representing injured people and their families. She was selected by her peers for three consecutive years to be included in Best Attorneys in America, 2013, 2014 and 2015. She was also honored in Best Attorneys in New York in 2013 for her work in medical malpractice. Brielle was voted “Top 40 Under 40” by the National Trial Lawyers - an invitation only membership extended to trial lawyers under the age of 40 who exemplify superior qualifications, trial results and leadership. Similarly, Brielle was named a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers from 2014 - 2021 - an honor extended to no more than 2.5% of the attorneys in the New York Metro area.

Elena Carter

Elena Carter, Esq. is a formidable trial attorney and litigator who has successfully achieved verdicts and resolutions for cases in all boroughs. Elena focuses her practice on complex medical malpractice and nursing home cases. She has been practicing for over 25 years, with multi-jurisdictional licensure in Michigan, Missouri, and New York. She prides herself on attention to detail and devotion to her clients. As a result of her commitment and exemplary work, she has earned numerous seven-figure settlements and verdicts. Elena’s success is founded not only on her 25+ years of experience, but also on her exceptional education from Georgetown University and UCLA Law School. She began her legal career in New York as a court attorney for the Honorable LaTia Martin in Bronx Supreme Court, has worked for the defense bar, and has found her home doing work on behalf of plaintiffs for the past 21-plus years.

Hugo Ruiz de la Torre

Hugo is a litigator and general practitioner with over ten years of courtroom experience. He began his career in the litigation department of a top AM 100 law firm in New York City. There, he handled a variety of cases relating to, among others, commercial litigation, small business disputes, allegations of fraud and breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, negligence, internal investigations, and trademark infringement. After his time working at a large law firm, Hugo worked for a mid-size firm managing general liability claims, including premises liability, construction injuries, motor vehicle crashes, product liability, and other negligence claims. He currently represents clients facing legal issues including personal injury claims, breach of contract, negligence, fraud, and malpractice. During law school, Hugo was an editor at the Cardozo Law Review. He also participated in Cardozo’s Innocence Project Clinic, where he assisted in representing individuals with claims of wrongful conviction and seeking exoneration based on DNA evidence. He also dedicated significant time to assisting pro bono clients with immigration issues, as well as helping local artists with intellectual property disputes.

Bill Greenberg

In the 40 years that Bill Greenberg has been actively practicing civil and select criminal litigation, he has experienced court proceedings in almost every aspect of the practice in all types of cases, both prosecuting and defending. He is an accomplished and skillful litigator, and has earned the respect of his adversaries and judges in both state and federal courts. He will always ethically and tenaciously be counted upon to uphold his client's rights in any litigation proceeding, civil or criminal. He characterizes his law practice as focused, single-minded advocacy. He practices law as a calling and as profession in the old-fashioned sense, not just as a business selling a service. His true compensation is the satisfaction of providing a client in litigation, civil or criminal, with the best legal outcome to which that client is entitled under the law. When he undertakes to represent a client, he becomes directly involved in every aspect of his client's legal situation. He does not refer the matter to other members of the firm. If agrees to be your attorney, you can expect direct contact with him at every stage and decision in the litigation. He knows every page of your file. He interviews every witness and makes every phone call relevant to your case. And this hands-on, direct approach has helped him get extraordinary results for his clients.