Cheriff & Fink, P.C.

First settlement of 2021! We just successfully resolved an action pending in Federal Court in NJ for the maximum insurance proceeds available on behalf of an injured client. We are a small general practice law firm providing large firm capabilities and service accompanied by the personal attention to detail only a firm our size can offer. This permits us to serve a broad spectrum of clients ranging from individuals to large corporations. When you call Cheriff & Fink you will ...speak directly with one of our Partners; not a paralegal, secretary or law clerk. Cheriff & Fink's philosophy is driven by the twin guiding principles of providing effective professional representation and establishing and maintaining long lasting attorney-client relationships. We are committed to being responsive to the needs of each client and to providing counsel and advice which enables the client's business and individual needs to expand and prosper in the long term. We believe that close, personal attention is the surest means of achieving these goals and of providing the proper foundation for a valued long-term relationship. If you have any questions, feel free to contact one of our attorneys. -Bruce and Ken

A year ago today, we opened our Valley Stream office location, after almost a decade operating our Long Island office in Hewlett. It’s been a strange and different year. Here’s to many more years practicing in our new space and hoping that the world will return to normal as soon as possible.

Happy New Year from Cheriff & Fink, P.C. Our offices will be closed on New Years Eve and New Years Day. We will reopen for regular business hours on Monday, January 4, 2021. - Bruce and Ken

Here at Cheriff & Fink, P.C., we try to avoid taking public political positions. With that said, our country now watches to see whether the United States will entertain a motion made by the State of Texas and joined by several other states that is requesting the Supreme Court to intervene in the 2020 election. The very writing of this previous sentence has avoided taking any position. What follows is excerpted from the position taken by the attorneys representing the Stat...e of Pennsylvania opposing the Texas application. "PRELIMINARY STATEMENT Since Election Day, State and Federal courts throughout the country have been flooded with frivolous lawsuits aimed at disenfranchising large swaths of voters and undermining the legitimacy of the election. The State of Texas has now added its voice to the cacophony of bogus claims. Texas seeks to invalidate elections in four states for yielding results with which it disagrees. Its request for this Court to exercise its original jurisdiction and then anoint Texas’s preferred candidate for President is legally indefensible and is an affront to principles of constitutional democracy. What Texas is doing in this proceeding is to ask this Court to reconsider a mass of baseless claims about problems with the election that have already been considered, and rejected, by this Court and other courts. It attempts to exploit this Court’s sparingly used original jurisdiction to relitigate those matters. But Texas obviously lacks standing to bring such claims, which, in any event, are barred by laches, and are moot, meritless, and dangerous. Texas has not suffered harm simply because it dislikes the result of the election, and nothing in the text, history, or structure of the Constitution supports Texas’s view that it can dictate the manner in which four other states run their elections. Nor is that view grounded in any precedent from this Court. Texas does not seek to have the Court interpret the Constitution, so much as disregard it. The cascading series of compounding defects in Texas’s filings is only underscored by the surreal alternate reality that those filings attempt to construct. That alternate reality includes an absurd statistical 2 analysis positing that the probability of President Elect Biden winning the election was one in a quadrillion. Bill of Complaint at 6. Texas’s effort to get this Court to pick the next President has no basis in law or fact. The Court should not abide this seditious abuse of the judicial process, and should send a clear and unmistakable signal that such abuse must never be replicated." With this post, CFPC does not take any position, but is providing our FB friends with an update filed earlier today with the Court in an effort to educate and inform. We will report back with updates on the case.

Stay Safe this holiday season - check out safety tips in our latest blog post! - Bruce and Ken

Merry Christmas from Cheriff & Fink, P.C. Wishing you health and happiness in 2021! - Bruce and Kenny

Wishing all of our clients, friends, family, and colleagues a safe, happy, and HEALTHY holiday season and new year! - Bruce & Ken

Stay safe today! We are open for business, although our Valley Stream location will be working remotely because of the snowy conditions.

Remembering watching the parade with family and friends back when our office was on West 57th Street in Manhattan!

Don't forget... Back seat passengers must wear seatbelts starting November 1st...

Check out the latest reviews of our most recent CLE course. Thanks for the kind words!

Looking back at some of our past holiday cards...

Wishing you and your family a happy, healthy, and safe Thanksgiving! Our offices will be closed on Thursday, November 26th and Friday, November 27th for the Holiday Weekend. We will reopen on Monday, November 30th for normal business hours. -Bruce and Ken... Cheriff & Fink, P.C. See more

Seven years ago, we taught our first of several Continuing Legal Education classes. Planning our next course. Is there something our attorney friends and colleagues would like to see us discuss? Thanks,... Bruce and Kenny See more

This is not a surprising development given that any time water sits in pipes unused for a long time it can lead to legionella forming. I hope the our local schools are doing the same testing before any are exposed. The good news is that most people do not get sick unless they are in a compromised state to begin with and would then be not going into the school in the first place. Be safe: Legionella Bacteria Found In Water At School District In Westchester https://dailyvoice.com//legionella-bacteria-found/794936/

Real Estate Closings 2020 - Kenny is all alone in an otherwise empty conference room while the other parties each have their own rooms, as well. So much for small talk among the participants!

Wishing our clients and friends a happy and healthy new year! Bruce and Ken

Thanks for our latest review on avvo.com!

Ground Zero as viewed from our former office space on Rector Street in lower Manhattan (circa 2008)

Check out the latest recommendation on our website. Thanks! http://cf-lawyers.com/recommendations.php

Another new avvo recommendation! Thanks!