Attorney David A.Bythewood in Mineola, New York
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- Business name: Attorney David A.Bythewood
- Address:
- 85 Willis Ave. Ste J
Mineola, New York 11501 - Phone number: 516-741-0066
- Fax number: 516-741-0072
- Business hours:
- 9am-5pm
- Year established: more then 25 years in business
- Credit cards accepted: Yes
- Number of employees: N/A
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- Category: Legal
- Description:
- Professionally, I am a lawyer with more than twenty five years experience. I have been admitted in New York, Washington, D.C. and a number of federal courts. I have handled matters outside those jurisdictions in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, California and Massachusetts. I have also been lead counsel for matters in the Bahamas and Germany. I belong to the American Bar Association, The New York State bar Association and the Nassau County bar Association. During the 1960s I was active in the Civil Rights movement as a member of C.O.R.E. doing the voter registration of impoverished African-Americans. I am a graduate of: Hempstead Public Schools, Adelphi University (BA), Hofstra University School of Law (J.D.),American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral Service, Also I am a member of Sigma Pi Phi fraternity (“Boule”), the 100 Black Men and a lifetime member of the NAACP. Some of my other clients have included large and small business such as Twin County Steel, Inc., Brooklyn Welding Co., Inc., and W.R. Grace. In 1987, at Lybia’s request I was licensed by the U. S. Treasury as the attorney for the nation of Lybia, for matters in the U.S.My experience and expertise as a lawyer includes corporate governance, fiduciary responsibility, contracts, trademarks, the constitution, civil rights, employment, torts, trial advocacy and criminal defense. Some of that which has been most visible are high profile “white collar crime” and “organized crime” defenses. Otherwise I have been and am in the media as a legal commentator on Fox, CNN, MSNBC and Court TV/Tru TV. Also, I acted for petroleum traders Chem Oil Industries and the Crispin companies, in the eighties. In the oil and gas arena I performed a number of functions including, but not limited to, being the attorney for Denis barn who was a VP at Mobil who rose to be a member of the board of Mobil of the Orient. I served for several years as a committee Vice Chairman for the Trial Techniques Committee of the Tort and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association; and I served for two (2) years as Chairman of the Banking Law Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association. Presently, and for more than twenty (20) years, I have been an Adjunct Professor at the Hofstra University School of Law teaching the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (N.I.T.A.) Course “Trial Techniques.” When he was a New York State Senator, I was a senior advisor to Gov. David A. Paterson. For more than twenty (20) years I served as a member of the Nassau County Democratic Judicial Screening Committee. I served as a member of the Board of Directors of the United Service Organization (“USO”) of Greater New York. I presently serve both as a Commissioner of the Board of Zoning Appeals for the City of Long Beach, New York and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Concerned Citizens for Roslyn Youth. Regarding discrimination matters as an outside counsel, I successfully defended the Times Mirror Co. and its subsidiary Newsday, and the Nassau County Board of Elections. As a plaintiff’s attorney, I successfully prosecuted a number of discrimination law suits and, in 2008, handled an action against NYS’s Roslyn school district which resulted in that school district adopting its first an anti-discrimination policy in its entire history. Other enjoyable cases were defeating Heublein when it claimed that my client’s trademark, “Club Beer,” infringed on their use of the term Club. Another was defeating a landlord and H.U.D. in their efforts to wrongly evict impoverished, but very hard working, tenants. Perhaps the most satisfying was years ago when I resoundingly defeating Cravath, Swaine and Moore after one of its lawyers tried to intimidate me. Two well publicized criminal defense cases were: 1) my successful defense of, Roland Davis, a member of the Board of Directors of the Guardian National Bank, after it was seized by the F.D.I.C. and F.B.I. in June of 1990. Prior to that, in 1988, I successfully defended a now deceased Joseph Gambino in a case referred to as the “AKA Gas Scam Case.” Some other very satisfying defenses were: 1) after converting a lawyer defendant to a prosecution witness and securing a no-prosecute letter, in a case where he was a bank fraud co-conspirator, I successfully defended him in disbarment proceedings commenced on account of his felonious activities; and 2) I defended a Cuban American who bankrupted his minority business enterprise and was thereafter accused of bankruptcy fraud all due to the U.S. Bankruptcy Judge not knowing or ignoring the law, the bankruptcy case trustee not knowing the law, US Attorney being blind to the intent of Congress, as set forth in the affirmative action rules, due to his bankruptcy lawyers not knowing the law and also due to his bankruptcy lawyer having given false and inculpatory deposition testimony; and 3) I successfully defended a young mother who had been accused of the felony of criminal possession of a weapon in the 2nd Degree by using a Stockholm Syndrome defense. During the late seventies I was elected to the Hempstead Public Schools Board of Education and during my term I was instrumental in getting rid of “Social Promotion.” The school year following the demise of social promotion, the performance of the students in the District improved dramatically. It was reported that their improvement exceeded that of any other school district in the United States. While on that Board, I also conducted a successful program, using Operant Conditioning and the group process, resulting in the fifteen (15) participating first year high school students - some who were several grades below the appropriate reading and writing level - radically increasing their skills. At the end of the first year they were all reading on the 12th grade level or better. That group was known as the “Advocate Circle.” Much later, in March of 2001, I was awarded a “Hero’s Award” by Hempstead Public Schools for my prior service. In 2005, I served as a Special Prosecutor for the Hempstead Public Schools. I have also acted as a negotiator. When the Tappanzee Bridge was to be rebuilt, I was a member of the New York State Thruway Authority’s negotiating team which had the task of negotiating a “Project Labor Agreement” patterned after that first established in the Boston Harbor matter. In addition to taking part in those negotiations, I drafted the agreement’s affirmative action section which section was challenged and found to be constitutional by the NYS Court of Appeals. Then, from 2000 to 2002, I acted as lead negotiator for Universal Genesis and as its chairman’s special representative. Universal Genesis is an international conglomerate owned by the Salman family. It started as the Salman Brothers which evolved into the Comindus Group. The business originally involved commodities trading and investment banking in Iran prior to the arrival of the Iatola. In partnership with David Rockefeller they owned Chase Manhattan Bank of Iran.
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