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Richard G. Menaker has been in practice since 1975, starting his career with Sullivan & Cromwell before founding the Firm in 1983. He has degrees from Columbia College, the University of Virginia Law School and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He serves on committees at the New York City and State and American Bar Associations, and has been an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association (AAA).
Dick concentrates in commercial litigation, dispute resolution and employment law counseling. He has represented commercial clients in dozens of cases in federal and state courts around the country at the trial and appellate levels, and in arbitrations and regulatory proceedings.
He has written extensively on litigation procedure and teaches in continuing education programs for the profession. Dick is a Director of Legal Services of the Hudson Valley, the civil legal aid program for the indigent in the downstate counties north of New York City.
Email: Richard Menaker
Robert F. Herrmann represents privately held manufacturing and service businesses, architects, engineers and other construction-related firms and New York City housing cooperatives and condominiums. He acts as general counsel to a number of architects, engineers, interior designers, and contractors, advising them on general business matters and representing them in litigation, arbitration and mediation. As an experienced litigator, Bob also represents a wide variety of corporate clients, many of them based overseas, in litigation in New York.
Bob is a graduate of Yale College and Columbia Law School, where he was a
Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He clerked for Judges Harold Medina and Sterry
Waterman of the U.S. Court of Appeals and began his private practice career in
1974 at Hughes Hubbard & Reed. He has been active in the New York City Bar
Association, including serving as a member of the City Bar's Arbitration,
Construction Law, State Courts, and Project on the Homeless Committees. He is
trained in mediation and is on the American Arbitration Association panel of
construction mediators. He also serves as a mediator for the New York State
Supreme Court, Commercial Division. He has also led numerous seminars for
design professionals on a variety of topics.
Email: Robert Herrmann
Samuel F. Abernethy represents companies and individuals in commercial arena with a concentration in commodities and securities matters. He is a graduate of Princeton University and from Fordham Law School, and was general counsel of the Comex and later the Coffee, Sugar & Cocoa Exchange. He is the Immediate Past Chairman of the Business Law Section and a former Chairman of the Derivatives & Structured Products Law Committee of the New York State Bar Association ("NYSBA"). Sam
is a member of the NYSBA House of Delegates, and also a member of the NYSBA
Business Law Section Executive Committee, Membership Committee, the Committee
on Diversity and Leadership Development, the Association Youth Outreach
Committee, and the Committee on Legal Specialization. He has been a member of
the Committee on Futures Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New
York and the American Bar Association Committee of Futures Law.
Sam's practice includes litigation and arbitration, regulatory matters (including SRO and agency investigations, disciplinary matters, and registrations), transactional work and general corporate, mergers and acquisitions, and private placements. He has also served as an arbitrator and expert in commodities-related disputes. Sam began his legal career with Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle. Before becoming a lawyer, he was a high school teacher and worked in the publishing industry.
Email: Samuel Abernethy
Michiel A. Bloemsma represents privately held companies and individuals in connection with general corporate, transactional and litigation matters. He assists Dutch and other European clients with establishing their U.S. business organizations, investments in U.S. companies, corporate reorganizations, and various commercial transactions such as sales and distributorship contracts and software licensing agreements. Michiel also counsels clients with respect to employment matters. He has written a number of articles on U.S. legal aspects of doing business in the U.S.
Michiel received his Dutch law degree (LL.B) from Leyden University School of Law in the Netherlands in 1983, an LL.M degree from Columbia Law School in 1984 and his J.D. degree from Cardozo Law School in 1993. He practiced in the area of Dutch corporate law and international business transactions with two major Dutch law firms for five years before he joined the Firm in 1993. He is fluent in Dutch and English and has a basic knowledge of French and German.
Email: Michiel Bloemsma
Yao Fu Bailey’s practice focuses on real estate, with a
concentration in commercial leasing, commercial and residential real property
transfer, construction law, and corporate law.
Prior to joining the Firm in 1999, Yao had more than 8 years of experience in
the practice of law in People's Republic of China. Yao was an in-house counsel
for a state-owned international trading company in China, and a managing
attorney of the Beijing office of a Hong Kong law firm, representing clients
from the western countries in their businesses in China in a wide range of
legal matters, including corporate law, contracts, joint ventures, and real
estate.
Yao was born in Jilin, People's Republic of China, and received her
legal education both in China and the United States. Yao earned her LL.B from
Peking University School of Law in 1987 and her LL.M. from University of
Washington School of Law in 1998. Yao was admitted to the bar in P.R. China in
1995 and in New York in 1999. She is also a member of the New York State and
City Bar Associations. Languages: Mandarin and English.
Email: Yao Fu Bailey
Cheryl L. Davis is a litigator who concentrates in intellectual property matters, including particularly copyright and trademark cases, and in employment and real estate/construction related matters. She has also represented theater clients in connection with a variety of contract and corporate issues. A published playwright whose work has been frequently performed, Cheryl won the 2005 Kleban Award for her works as a musical theater librettist and her show Barnstormer received one of the 2005 Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Awards. She is a graduate of Princeton (A.B. 1983) and Columbia (M.S.J. 1986 and J.D. 1987) Universities, and an active member of the New York City Bar Association, where she has served on the Committees on Copyright and Literary Property and on Communications and Media Law.
Email: Cheryl Davis
Paul M. Hellegers received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Oxford University, where he earned a "double first" in classical history, literature and philosophy, and his J.D. from Georgetown University in 1984, following which he clerked for Judge Christine Nettesheim of the United States Claims Court in Washington. He is a commercial litigator with experience in domestic and international business disputes in the state and federal courts, including complex cases involving accounting, finance and construction issues. He has been Chair of the Civil Court Committee of the New York City Bar and President of the Lexington Democratic Club in Manhattan.
Email: Paul Hellegers
Ann M. King joined Menaker & Herrmann in 1995, having previously worked for three years in Japan on cross-border construction contracts and joint ventures for the international division of a major construction company. A graduate of the National University of Ireland (B.C.L. 1989) and the London School of Economics (LL.M. in Labor Law 1990), Ann represents business owners, executives and employees in employment matters and corporate investigations. She also has extensive experience with New York City real estate and commercial leasing and has provided contract guidance in a variety of transnational contexts. She has a basic knowledge of Japanese and French. Ann is currently on a leave of absence in Ireland.
Daniel M. Baum received his B.A. from Columbia University and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. His practice focuses on commercial litigation. Prior to joining the Firm, Dan received training as a mediator from Safe Horizon and mediated disputes in New York Community Dispute Resolution Centers and New York City Civil Court. He also worked as a trial assistant with New York County Defender Services. During law school he spent a year interning with the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless working towards homeless shelter reform in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Before law school, Dan spent over two years working in Japan. Dan was admitted to the New York Bar in 2007. He has a working knowledge of Japanese and Spanish.
Email: Daniel Baum
Nicholas F. Gaffney received his B.A. in English from Fordham University and his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School. His practice focuses on commercial litigation and employment law. During law school he worked as an intern with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Brooklyn Law School Second Look Program. Nicholas is admitted to the New York and New Jersey Bars.
Email: Nicholas F. Gaffney
 Karen Kim received her B.A. with Honors in English Language
and Literature from The University of Chicago and her J.D. from Brooklyn Law
School. Her practice focuses on commercial litigation. During law school she
worked as an intern with Magistrate Judge Michael H. Dolinger of the United
States District Court (S.D.N.Y.), the Division of Enforcement at the New York
Stock Exchange, the ASPCA, Lee Anav Chung LLP and JCDecaux North America.
Before law school, Karen worked in consulting and in the publishing industry.
She also studied at Seoul National University and worked at Bae, Kim & Lee
during her two years in South Korea. She is fluent in Korean and has a basic
knowledge of Spanish. Karen is admitted to the New York and New Jersey Bars.
Email: Karen Kim
Allison C. Pierre focuses on commercial litigation. She received her B.A. from Barnard College of Columbia University and her J.D. from the Washington College of Law at American University, where she won the annual award for best appellate brief in the Upper-class Moot Court Competition. Prior to joining the Firm, Allison was an Assistant District Attorney for the Kings County District Attorney's Office serving in the Appeals and Trial Bureaus and worked in the insurance coverage practice group of a New York City law firm. She was admitted to the New York Bar in May of 2002 and to the District of Columbia Bar in September of 2003. She is a member of the American Bar Association.
Email: Allison Pierre
Timothy P. Fisher (Of Counsel) has combined tax expertise with general corporate representation to provide fully integrated legal advice to the business community. Over 30 years of experience in income tax, estate tax, pension, ERISA and general business law enables Tim to interpret and resolve client business concerns in a comprehensive manner.
Tim has degrees from University of Notre Dame (BS in Physics) and New York University (JD and LLM Taxation) where he received the American Jurisprudence Award in Taxation. Tim represents closely held businesses and their principals as well as not-for-profit organizations, trusts and estates and individuals regarding estate planning, employment arrangements and benefits and income tax issues. Over the years, Tim has lectured on estate planning, pension and profit sharing plans, ESOPs, new tax legislation, ERISA, and deferred compensation programs for profit and not-for-profit companies and their executives. He has also written articles on ESOPs and for ten years edited the tax chapter of Bertram Harnett's "Responsibilities of Insurance Agents and Brokers," published by Matthew Bender & Co.
Email: Timothy Fisher
Stephen D. Houck (Of Counsel) concentrates in the field of antitrust and commercial litigation. His extensive antitrust experience includes both government service and private practice. While Chief of the Antitrust Bureau, New York State Attorney General's Office (1995 to 1999), Steve acted as lead trial counsel for the 20 state plaintiffs in the government lawsuit against Microsoft. He has represented private clients, both plaintiffs and defendants, in numerous antitrust litigations as well as before government agencies. Steve is a member of the Executive Committee, and a former Chair, of the Antitrust Section of the New York State Bar Association, and has lectured and written on a variety of antitrust topics.
Steve also has extensive commercial litigation experience. As a partner at Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine and Reboul MacMurray Hewitt Maynard & Kristol, Steve represented clients in a broad range of commerical disputes, arbitrations and tort actions. He also served as Vice President of the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution and Co-Chair of the Homelessness Committee of the New York County Lawyers Association. Steve holds an A.B., magna cum laude, from Princeton University (1969) and a J.D. from Harvard Law School (1972).
Email: Stephen Houck
Rebecca Northey (Of Counsel) joined the Firm in 2006. She concentrates in the fields of employment law and commercial and civil rights litigation. Rebecca has had extensive experience in employment counseling, negotiations, and mediation, as well as in litigation. She began her legal career at Hughes Hubbard & Reed in 1978, where she worked on, among other things, employment, securities, antitrust, and products liability actions, including class actions. As a supervisor in the New York City Corporation Counsel's office, Rebecca defended the City in high-profile litigations and advised the Mayor's Office and City agencies on a wide range of legal issues. From 1997 until joining the Firm, Rebecca was a partner in Mussman & Northey. There she counseled and litigated on behalf of private sector employers, municipalities and individuals in employment matters and handled commercial litigation.
Rebecca is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the National Employment Lawyers Association and the American Bar Association. She is an honors graduate of Vassar College and of Boston University Law School, where she served on the Boston University Law Review.
Email: Rebecca Northey
Louis Lauer (Special Counsel) has represented closely-held
enterprises and public companies in a wide-range of transactions and, in recent
years, artists and collectors of fine art in IRS audits proceedings and estate
planning and executives in working out severance arrangements. A graduate of
New York University and Columbia Law School (where he was a Stone Scholar and
Associate in the University's Legislative Drafting Research Fund), Lou clerked
for Judge Harold R. Medina of the U.S. Court of Appeals and served as Counsel
to the N.Y. Temporary State Commission on the Constitutional Convention and as
Counsel and Executive Director of the N.Y.S. Charter Revision Commission for
New York City and the Suffolk County Charter Revision Commission. Lou recently
completed his second term as Co-Chair of the Silvermine Guild Arts Center and
is now a member of the Board of Trustees of the Fairfield/Westchester branch of
the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America. Lou is a member of the
Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
Email: Louis Lauer
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