Smithtown, NY

Alex Maltese

Attorney Alex Maltese has been a practicing attorney for more than seventeen years. He was born and raised in Huntington, New York and is the son of Carl P. Maltese, the founder of the firm. For his entire career he has represented the victims of personal injury accidents. His practice is limited to representing clients who have been injured due to the negligent or reckless acts of others, including those injured in motor vehicle accidents, construction accidents, slips and falls and other causes. He has been rated a Super Lawyer from 2016 to 2019 and in 2021. In 2014 and 2015, Alex received the “Rising Star” award by Super Lawyers.

Luigi Vigliotti

Luigi Vigliotti is an attorney with over 20 years of experience, including serving as a former New York State Prosecutor and Assistant District Attorney in Nassau County from 2001 to 2004. He also worked as a former traffic prosecutor. He has experience in prosecuting misdemeanor and felony cases, and later defended insurance companies in personal injury cases before starting his own practice in 2008. He focuses on criminal defense, personal injury litigation, and traffic matters. He is Chief Counsel for the New York State Fraternal Order of Police Foundation Inc. and former staff counsel to a New York State Senator. He has taught trial advocacy at Hofstra Law School.

Barrie E. Bazarsky

Barrie E. Bazarsky, Esq. is a Senior Associate at Futterman Lanza, LLP, specializing exclusively in personal injury for over 30 years. She provides compassionate and aggressive advocacy for clients in various personal injury cases, including wrongful death, motor vehicle accidents, and slip and falls. Her expertise extends to senior injuries and she has strong relationships within the local medical community.

Carl P. Maltese

Carl P. Maltese founded the Law Office of Carl Maltese in 1966. He represented personal injury victims for his entire 40-year legal career, focusing on a boutique-sized firm approach with personal attention to each client. He earned a reputation in the Suffolk County legal community as an experienced, dedicated, and trustworthy advocate. Carl’s philosophy of offering personal attention to each client is still at the foundation of the current firm’s philosophy.

Diane Maltese

Attorney Diane Maltese has been a practicing attorney for more than eighteen years. She previously was an associate at a premier defense firm that represented insurance carriers, handling personal injury cases from inception through trial. Now at the Law Office of Carl Maltese, her practice involves representing clients who have been injured due to the negligent or reckless acts of others, including those injured from motor vehicle accidents, construction accidents, and slips and falls.

Herbert S. Kellner

Herbert Kellner has litigated thousands of trial cases. A well respected seasoned Trial Attorney who has throughout his career litigated thousands of serious personal injury/accident cases, Federal Social Security Disability cases, NYS Police Retirement Disability cases, Tax litigation, Commercial trial litigation cases, Custody trials, Support trials, Paternity trials, Termination of Parental Rights trials, Homicides, complex serious felony trials and pre-trial hearings, Family Court neglect/abuse cases, landlord/tenant, all phases of complex civil litigation and practice and appeals. Real estate, wills and estates, Vehicle and Traffic violations, summonses, and trials. Former Law Guardian/Attorney for Children certified and appointed by the NYS Appellate Division by the Hon. Presiding Justice Gail Prudenti to represent children in legal court cases. Registered Child Mentor, Suffolk County Probation Dept. Former certified Polygraph Examiner. Former City of New York Administrative Law Judge.

Daniel H. Guttmann

Daniel Guttmann as litigated thousands of cases. A seasoned trial attorney who has tried serious personal injury and accident cases, contested divorce actions, custody trials, support trials, homicides, tape, felony narcotics, kidnapping, felony assaults, robberies, landlord/tenant and civil litigation.