Richard
C. Agins founded the firm in 1978.
His practice includes:
Litigation: In the Courts of the State and City of New York, the United States District Courts, Alternative Dispute Resolution Agencies and governmental agencies. He is a trained Mediator.
Employment: Including employment agreements, employee manuals, confidentiality and non-competition agreements, discrimination cases and others.
Intellectual property: Transactions and litigation relating to both business and creative facets of the works of writers, producers, directors and investors in movies, books, television, radio, home video, the legitimate stage and new media.
Contracts and agreements: Including their preparation, negotiation and review, specifically for the purchase, sale or financing of goods, services and businesses.
Real Estate: Purchase, sale and financing, the conversion of both residential and commercial buildings to cooperatives and condominiums, representation of Boards of Directors and all related transactions.
He is a former Associate Justice of the Village of West Hampton Dunes, Suffolk County, New York and a former Assistant Attorney General of the State of New York, in the Charity Frauds Bureau dealing with the formation, regulation, dissolution, investigation, enforcement and prosecution of Not-for-Profit organizations.
In 2010, he was named to Avenue Magazine's Legal Elite, a list of New York City's top litigation attorneys. The list was compiled by Avenue and LexisNexus Martindale-
Hubbell from among those attorneys who have received an AV Pre-eminent Rating by Martindale-Hubbell - the highest Peer Review Rating available.
He is a graduate of Rutgers University, Class of 1964 with a B.A. in Political Science. He received his law degree from the George Washington University School of Law, Class of 1967, and an LL.M. in Corporate Law from the New York University School of Law, Class of 1972.
