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Extra Phones: Phone: (212) 687-4911
Neighborhoods: Midtown East, Midtown Manhattan
AKA: Robt R Kreis
Other Link: http://joelbergerlaw.com
Categories: Sexual Harassment Attorneys, Attorneys, Criminal Law Attorneys, Wrongful Death Attorneys

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Phone: (212) 687-1406

Address: 41 E 42nd St, New York, NY 10017

Website: http://joelbergerlaw.com

Kreis Robert R

Criminal Law

Criminal Defense
Joel Berger is a lawyer in private practice in midtown Manhattan. He has been a civil rights and criminal defense lawyer for nearly 45 years, representing the underprivileged in unpopular cases. He has argued and won cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, nearly half the U. S. Courts of Appeals, and the New York State Court of Appeals, as well as trying numerous complex matters in the lower courts. In 1996 he entered private practice, concentrating on civil rights cases.
Wrongful Death
Other prominent cases in recent years have included a federal civil rights action on behalf of a former New York State inmate convicted on the basis of police perjury, settled for $650,000; a sexual harassment case on behalf of three female New York City police officers, also settled for $650,000; (iii) a wrongful death action alleging that a woman inmate on Rikers Island had died due to inadequate medical care and inattention by correction officers, settled for $400,000; two actions by families whose homes were invaded by police SWAT teams in illegal searches, each settled for $200,000; an action by an elderly woman confined to a wheelchair, falsely arrested for assaulting her landlord, settled for $180,000; and an action by a diabetic woman arrested for smoking a marijuana cigarette who was denied medical attention by the police when her sugar count reached life-threatening levels, settled for $125,000.
Sex Crimes
Murder
Mr. Berger graduated from Columbia College in 1965 and the University of Chicago Law School in 1968. In 1972, at age 28, he won his first United States Supreme Court case, reversing a Brooklyn murder conviction.
Homicide
Appeals from felony convictions; state and federal post-conviction hearings and appeals. Argued eleven cases in the N.Y. State Court of Appeals, two in the Second Circuit, and several in the Appellate Divisions for the First and Second Departments. Won summary reversal by the Supreme Court of the United States of the NYS Court of Appeals’ denial of state post-conviction relief in a Brooklyn homicide case.

Employment Law

Employment Discrimination
, DNJ (Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Special Master)); settlement of a sex discrimination case against the City's largest pension system, involving distribution of $18 million to approximately 30,000 retirees (
Severance Agreement
General litigation matters in private practice have included a civil RICO action by a large publishing corporation challenging the fraudulent sale of internet rights by an unauthorized executive, negotiation of a termination and severance agreement for the Vice President and Medical Director of a major hospital, an appeal to compel arbitration of a dispute over computer software royalties, litigation over the profits of a defunct family partnership, defense of a state’s suspension of trainers of thoroughbred racehorses, defense of a real estate firm in a proceeding before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, defense of community college-related enterprises in two personal injury actions and two employment discrimination actions (
Sexual Harassment
Since entering private practice Mr. Berger has won more than $9 million from the City of New York to date in cases alleging false arrest, malicious prosecution, excessive force and sexual harassment by police officers. He also obtained one of the largest sanctions awards ever assessed against the City, and defeated a subsequent effort by the City to disqualify him from representing clients in police cases.

Health Law

Personal Injury
Mr. Berger’s general litigation matters in private practice have included a lawsuit on behalf of a prominent private hospital against the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation (settled for a half- million dollars), a civil RICO action on behalf of a major publishing corporation, an appeal to compel arbitration of a dispute over computer software royalties, litigation over the profits of a defunct partnership, defense of a state’s suspension of a prominent trainer of thoroughbred racehorses, defense of a real estate firm in a proceeding before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, defense of community colleges in employment discrimination and personal injury actions, and representation of a physician in investigations by the State Office of Professional Medical Conduct and the Manhattan DA’s Office. He continues to represent corporate clients and institutions in addition to individuals alleging government misconduct.

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