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Joseph C. Valenzuela
Email: JValenzuela@grsl.com – Download vCard
Joseph Valenzuela is an Associate of GRSLBG&B and concentrates his practice in General Liability and Construction. He represents insurance companies and self-insured companies in the defense of these claims.
Mr. Valenzuela joined GRSLBG&B in June 2016. He graduated with a B.S. from The College of New Jersey in 2008 and received his law degree from the Hofstra University School of Law in 2011. While attending law school, Mr. Valenzuela was an Articles Editor for the Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal.
Prior to joining GRSLBG&B, Mr. Valenzuela worked at a Pennsylvania-based insurance defense firm where he represented insurers in first-party claims. He is admitted to practice in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. Mr. Valenzuela has been selected as a “Rising Star” by the New Jersey Edition of Super Lawyers for 2019-2021.
Practice Groups:
- General Liability
- Construction
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- New Jersey, 2011
- New York, 2012
- Pennsylvania, 2015
- U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 2019
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- The College of New Jersey (B.S. Criminology & Justice Studies, May 2008)
- Hofstra University School of Law (J.D., 2011)
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- New Jersey Bar Association
G. William DeLaney
Email: WDelaney@grsl.com – Download vCard
Mr. DeLaney joined GRSLBG&B in November, 2017. Mr. DeLaney graduated in 2002 with a B.A. in History and Political Science from the University of Rochester. While an undergraduate, he interned at the European Union in Brussels, Belgium. Mr. DeLaney received his law degree from Rutgers University School of Law – Camden in 2005. While in Law School, he interned with The Hon. John A. Almeida, J.S.C.
Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. DeLaney represented large corporations, municipalities and small business in a variety of matters, including general liability, construction accidents, construction defects, and professional malpractice. Mr. DeLaney is admitted to practice in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and U.S. District Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Practice Groups:
- General Liability
- Insurance Defense
Admitted:
- New Jersey, 2005
- Pennsylvania, 2005
- New York, 2014
- U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 2007
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2014
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2016
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- University of Rochester (B.A. History and Political Science, 2002)
- Rutgers University School of Law – Camden (J.D., 2005)
Associations:
- New York State Bar Association
Bruce W. McCoy
Email: BMccoy@grsl.com – Download vCard
Bruce W. McCoy, Jr. is an Associate of GRSLBG&B and concentrates his practice in areas of General Liability and Construction. He represents insurance companies and self-insured companies in the defense of these claims.
Mr. McCoy graduated from The College of New Jersey with his B.S. in 1995 and received his law degree from Rutgers University School of Law-Newark in 1998.
Mr. McCoy joined GRSLBG&B in March, 2019. Mr. McCoy has over twenty years of civil litigation, appellate and trial experience defending individuals and businesses throughout New York and New Jersey in matters involving automotive collisions, premises liability, professional liability, toxic torts and product liability. Mr. McCoy began his legal career as the Judicial Clerk to the Honorable Amy Piro-Chambers, P.J.S.C., Middlesex County, New Jersey Superior Court, Civil Division, from 1998 to 1999. He is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association.
Practice Groups:
- General Liability
- Construction
Admitted:
- New Jersey, 1998
- New York, 2002
Education:
- The College of New Jersey (B.S., 1995)
- Rutgers University School of Law – Newark (J.D., 1998)
Associations:
- New Jersey State Bar Association
- New Jersey Defense Association
- New York Claim Association
- Defense Research Institute
Michael D. Sinai
Email: MSinai@grsl.com – Download vCard
Michael D. Sinai, Esq. is an Associate of GRSLBG&B and concentrates his practice in General Liability, Construction, and Environmental Litigation. He avidly represents insurance companies, self-insured companies, individuals and small businesses in a diverse array of matters throughout New York and New Jersey.
Mr. Sinai graduated from Rutgers University with his B.S. in 2007, and received his law degree from Pace University School of Law in 2012. While attending Pace Law School, he engaged in public interest work at the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic (White Plains, NY), the New York Attorney General’s Environmental Protection Bureau (New York, NY), and the Eastern Environmental Law Center (Newark, NJ). His interests regard environmental protection, open space, historic preservation, environmental justice and civil rights, transparency of government actions and private development. Michael D. Sinai, Esq. is admitted to practice in the States of New York and New Jersey, and in the Federal Courts in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey.
Mr. Sinai originally joined GRSLBG&B as an Associate in 2014, leaving in 2018 to work at a private New Jersey environmental litigation firm. In May 2019, Mr. Sinai rejoined GRSLBG&B, with a focus on New York general liability, Labor Law and Construction Litigation matters. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the New Jersey State Bar Association, and the Middlesex County Bar Association.
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Loudie V. Srebnick
Email: LSrebnick@grsl.com – Download vCard
Loudie V. Srebnick is an Associate of GRSLBG&B and concentrates her practice in General Liability. She represents insurance companies and self-insured companies in the defense of these claims.
Ms. Srebnick joined GRSLBG&B in February 2020. She graduated magna cum laude from Barry University in 2007 with dual degrees in Political Science and Criminology. Ms. Srebnick received her Juris Doctor degree in 2012 from New York Law School where she participated in a Conflict Resolution study abroad program at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. While in law, school Ms. Srebnick served as an extern for the New York City Mayor’s Office of Contract Services and an intern for the South Brooklyn Legal Services. From 2010 to 2012, Ms. Srebnick clerked at a firm handling transactional matters throughout the state of New York.
Prior to joining GRSLBG&B, Ms. Srebnick worked as an associate for a Manhattan based personal injury firm and as in-house counsel for a New Jersey based corporation.
Ms. Srebnick is admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York, as well as the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
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Rosanne Palumbo
Email: RPalumbo@grsl.com – Download vCard
Rosanne Palumbo is an Associate of GRSLBG&B and concentrates her practice in General Liability, Construction, Labor & Employment and Asbestos/Toxic Tort. She represents insured corporate entities, insurance companies and self-insured companies in the defense of these claims.
Ms. Palumbo joined GRSLBG&B in May 2020. She graduated from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Cook College in 1995, with a Bachelor of Science in Human Ecology. She obtained her law degree and Environmental Law Certification from Pace University School of Law in New York in 2000. While in law school, Ms. Palumbo worked with Pace’s Environmental Law Society and was an annual hostess at Pace’s Animals in the Law Conference, where she advocated for animal rights and environmental protections.
Prior to joining GRSLBG&B, Ms. Palumbo served as in house counsel for insurance carriers in New York and New Jersey and as General Counsel for a finance company for 12 years, where Ms. Palumbo represented her corporate client in all phases of litigation and arbitration. She volunteers her time rehabilitating abused American Pit Bull Terriers and is volunteer counsel for Jersey Pits Rescue, a non-profit organization.
Ms. Palumbo was admitted to the New York State Bar in 2001 and the New Jersey State Bar in 2007, as well as the United States District Court, District of New Jersey and Eastern District of New York.
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Aran J. O’Gara
Email: AOGara@grsl.com – Download vCard
Aran J. O’Gara is an Associate of GRSLBG&B and concentrates his practice in General Liability and Construction. He represents insurance companies and self-insured companies in the defense of these claims.
Mr. O’Gara joined GRSLBG&B in September 2020. He graduated from The University at Albany with his B.A. in 2013 and received his law degree from SUNY Buffalo Law School in 2016. While attending law school, Mr. O’Gara was a member of the Buffalo Moot Court Board and participated in the Judge Paul Joseph Kelly, Jr. Invitational Trial Competition.
Prior to joining GRSLBG&B, Mr. O’Gara worked as an associate with a focus in medical malpractice and general liability. He is admitted to practice in New York State and the Eastern and Southern Districts of the New York Federal Courts.
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Mark J. Feuerstein
Email: MFeuerstein@grsl.com – Download vCard
Mark J. Feuerstein joined the Firm’s Litigation Department as an Associate in October 2020. Mr. Feuerstein concentrates his practice in General Liability.
Prior to joining GRSLBG&B, Mr. Feuerstein served as an Assistant Prosecutor for the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office, Special Victim’s Unit, where he prosecuted criminal complaints, including domestic violence-related assaults, possession of weapons and distribution of narcotics. Mr. Feuerstein also served as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Nesle A. Rodriguez, F.J.S.C., Superior Court of New Jersey, Hudson Vicinage, Criminal Division, from 2017 to 2018.
Mr. Feuerstein received his J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law in 2017. In 2013, Mr. Feuerstein was awarded a Bachelors of Arts in Public Relations from Quinnipiac University School of Communications.
Mr. Feuerstein is admitted to practice in New Jersey, New York, and the U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey. He is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association and Hudson County Bar Association.
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Minal J. Acharya
Email: MAcharya@grsl.com – Download vCard
Minal J. Acharya is an Associate of GRSLBG&B and concentrates her practice in the area of General Liability. She represents insurance companies and self-insured companies in the defense of these claims.
Ms. Acharya joined the Firm in November 2020. She graduated from Rutgers University in 2009 with B.A. in Political Science and Public Policy. She continued her education at Florida Coastal School of Law, obtaining her law degree in 2013. While attending law school, Ms. Acharya was a legal intern with the Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, the Florida Department of Children and Families, and the Public Defender’s office in Duval County.
Prior to joining GRSLBG&B, Ms. Acharya practiced in the area of both criminal and civil litigation. Recently, as an associate, Ms. Acharya focused her practice on automobile liability, representing the interest of individuals, businesses, and insurance companies in all phases of litigation, including trials. Ms. Acharya is admitted to practice in New Jersey and Florida and is a member of the New Jersey Bar Association.
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David A. Visco
Email: DVisco@grsl.com
David A. Visco joined the Firm’s Litigation Department as an Associate in our New York Office. Mr. Visco concentrates his practice primarily in the areas of General Liability and Construction. He represents insurance companies and self-insured companies in the defense of these claims.
Mr. Visco graduated with a B.S. in Business Administration from the University at Buffalo in 2013 and received his law degree from the University at Buffalo School of Law in 2016. While attending law school, Mr. Visco served as a legal extern for the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office and as a legal intern for a prominent criminal defense attorney in Rochester, New York.
Prior to joining GRSLBG&B, Mr. Visco worked at a large insurance defense firm where he focused his practice on the defense of high-exposure medical malpractice, nursing home liability, and general liability claims. He is currently admitted to practice in New York.
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Patrick J. Nemes
Email: PNemes@grsl.com
Patrick J. Nemes is an Associate of GRSLBG&B and concentrates his practice in Workers’ Compensation. Mr. Nemes represents insurance companies and self-insured companies in the defense of these claims.
Mr. Nemes graduated from Coastal Carolina University with a B.A. in History in 2010 and received his law degree from Roger Williams School of Law in 2014. While in law school, Mr. Nemes was the Vice President of the Environmental Law Society, Third-Year Student Representative of the Student Bar Association, and Member of the Student Honor Board.
Prior to joining GRSLBG&B, Mr. Nemes worked as an associate defending employers and their carriers against workers’ compensation claims throughout New Jersey. Mr. Nemes also managed medical provider claims for hospitals and physicians through arbitration, trial, and the Independent Health Care Appeals Program.
Mr. Nemes is admitted to practice in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
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Edward W. Chen
Email: EChen@grsl.com
Edward W. Chen is an Associate in GRSLBG&B and concentrates his practice is General Liability. He represents insurance companies and self-insured companies in defense of these claims throughout New York and New Jersey, and is practiced in all facets of litigation from inception through trial and appeal.
Mr. Chen joined GRSLBG&B in April 2021. He graduated from the University at Albany, State University of New York in 1998 and received his law degree from the University of Buffalo in 2001. While in law school, he interned at the Office of the Attorney General in Albany and the Queens District Attorney’s Office in New York.
Prior to joining GRSLBG&B, Mr. Chen began his career at a house counsel firm to a national insurance carrier defending individuals and businesses in bodily injury actions in New York City and Long Island. He has continued defending insurance carriers throughout New York and New Jersey. Mr. Chen’s work includes precedent setting case law, under Mangra v. China Airlines, Ltd., 790 N.Y.S.2d 370, where the insured escaped vicarious liability through creative exclusion of forklifts under the definition of “motor vehicle.”
Mr. Chen is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia.
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