Annette G. Hasapidis

Education

Juris Doctor: Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, New York, 1991
Honors: Moot Court
Bachelor of Science, Political Science: New York University, New York, New York, 1987
Honors: Trustee Scholar

Licensed To Practice

State of New York, 1992
United States District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1993
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1994
United States Supreme Court, 2006

Professional Experience

Law Offices of Annette G. Hasapidis, South Salem, New York: Owner, 1999 – Present
Lester Schwab Katz & Dwyer, New York, New York: Senior Associate, 1995 – 1999
Westchester County Attorney, White Plains, New York: Assistant County Attorney, 1994–1995
Kings County District Attorney, Brooklyn, New York: Assistant District Attorney, 1991–1994

Professional Associations and Memberships

Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York, 2004 – Present
Co-Chair Legislation Committee, 2008 – Present
Co-Chair Judiciary Committee, 2006 – 2008
New York State Trial Lawyer’s Association, 2010– Present
Co-Chair, Amicus Committee
New York State Bar Association, Member, 1999 – Present
Committee on Courts of Appellate Jurisdiction, Member, 2011
Westchester County Women’s Bar Association, 1999 – Present
Vice President, 2011-present
Recording Secretary, 2010 – 2011
Chair, Appellate Practice Committee, 2007 – 2011
Westchester County Bar Association, Member, 1999 – Present
Pace University School of Law's Women's Justice Center's "The Friends of Gail," Executive Board Member, 2007 – Present.
Northern Westchester Bar Association, 2007 – Present
Dutchess County Bar Association, 2007 – Present
White Plains Bar Association, 2009 – Present

Representative Cases

Perl v. Meher, 2011 WL 5838721 (2011) (holding, inter alia, that in a threshhold personal injury case, a plaintiff is not required to proffer “contemporaneous” numerical measurements of range of motion in order to defeat summary judgment)
Natiello v. Carrion, 73 A.D.3d 1070 (2d Dep’t 2010) (annulling determination that mother failed to provide adequate supervision of her 16 year old autistic son and had committed educational neglect of her other emotionally disturbed son)
Verdugo v. Seven Thirty One Ltd. Partnership, 70 A.D.3d 600 (1st Dep’t 2010) (dismissing the "act of God" affirmative defense, and determining that the existence of 30 mph winds, which caused plywood to become airborne and strike Plaintiff in the head, was not an "unusual, extraordinary and unprecedented event").
Valdez ex rel. Donely v. U.S., 518 F.3d. 173 (2d Cir. 2008) (reinstating a plaintiffs’ medical malpractice action as timely based upon federal accrual and equitable estoppel rules).
Ellis v. Chao, 336 F.3d 114 (2d Cir. 2003) (finding that candidate for a union election raised a question of fact whether the Secretary of Labor’s decision not to sue to set aside a union election was arbitrary and capricious).
Galanos v. Galanos, 20 A.D.3d 450 (2d Dep’t 2005) (disqualifying the husband’s counsel in a matrimonial action who had represented the wife’s father in prior proceedings; the first case in New York to find that a father and child’s finances were so inextricably intertwined as to justify disqualification).
Massimi v. Massimi, 35 A.D.3d 400 (2d Dep’t 2006) (ruling that the husband had commingled marital and separate property, thereby entitling the wife to a distributive award of that property).
Xiao Yang Chen v. Fischer, 6 N.Y.3d 94 (2005) (as amicus curiae counsel for the Women’s Bar of the State of New York) (ruling that joinder of tort claims in a matrimonial action is permissive, not mandatory).

Professional Acknowledgements

AV*-Rated by Martindale-Hubbell’s Law Directory.*An AV® certification mark is a significant rating accomplishment - a testament to the fact that a lawyer's peers rank him or her at the highest level of professional excellence.

For further information about some of her past results, see her Representative Case Summaries.

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