Cases
Experience: General Practice - Financial: Represented banks
officers in FDIC, merger
acquisition litigation.
General Practice - Education: Reviewed
drafted affiliation agreements between schools, leases, licensing agreements, foreign student recruitment agreements, contractor agreements
independent contractor agreements.
Advised colleges
universities concerning the U.S. Department of Education Gainful Employment Rules, the Family Educational Rights
Privacy Act, Clery Act, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965
Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972.
Advised school districts, colleges
universities in connection with collective bargaining, tenure, leaves of absence, termination, student aid, student discipline,
state
federal regulatory compliance.
Advised colleges
universities on their legal obligations concerning transgender students, allergies
disabilities, discipline (academic
other), housing, grading, student travel
research,
financial aid.
Served as lead counsel
successfully defended a large, private university in the defense of a multiplaintiff claim alleging sexual abuse of students during a 20-year period.
General Practice - Employment: Defended public
private employers in numerous Title VII, ADA, Title IX Rehabilitation Act
other employment cases.
General Practice - Securities: Defended private equity funds
managers in multimillion-dollar securities litigations alleging state, federal
common-law violations.
Defended numerous securities broker-dealers
registered representatives before SEC
FINRA.
General Practice - Class Actions: Defended State of New York in l
mark class actions on care of the mentally disabled.
Represented Yonkers, N.Y. Teachers Union in class action school desegregation matters.
Defended State of New York in class actions concerning statewide prison conditions.
Specific Matters - Commercial: Wegweiser v. Wegweiser , 205 AD.2d 616, 614 N.Y.S.2d 287 (2d Dept. 1994)
First Transcapital Corp. v. King Umberto Inc. , 214 AD. 2d 699, 625 N.Y.S.2d 294 (2d Dept. 1995)
Continental National Bank of Miami v. Sanchez , 170 F.3d 1340 (11th Cir. 1999)
Binner v. Morris , 741 So.2d 590 (Fla. 3d DCA 1999)
Keller v. Newman Sons Inc. , 756 So.2d 120 (Fla. 3d DCA 2000)
Powersports, Inc. v. Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance, CO. , 307 F. Supp. 2d 1355 (S.D. Fla. 2004)
Marquez v. Pan American Bank , 943 So.2d 284 (Fla. 3d DCA 2006)
Sierra Equity Group, Inc. v. White Oak Equity Partners , 650 F. Supp. 2d 1213 (S.D. Fla. 2009)
Hahamovitch v. Delray Property Investments, Inc., 165 So. 3d. 676 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015)
Specific Matters - Estate & Trust: Brown v. Miller , 2 So.3d 321 (Fla. 5th DCA 2009)
Specific Matters - Labor: Monroe-Woodbury CSD v. Monroe-Woodbury TA , 105 AD. 2d 786, 481 N.Y.S. 2d 731 (2d Dept. 1984)
Rippe v. Board of Education , 64 N.Y.2d 281, 486 N.Y.S.2d 713 (1985)
Winston v. City of New York , 759 F2.d 242 (2d Cir. 1985)
Moore v. Board of Education , 116 AD. 2d 273, 500 N.Y.S.2d 710 (2d Dept. 1986)
Faculty Association v. PERB , 125 AD. 2d 307, 508 N.Y.S.2d 591 (2d Dept. 1987)
Board of Education v. Yonkers Fed. of Teachers , 133 AD.2d 402, 519 N.Y.S.2d 395 (2d Dept. 1987)
Margolin v. Newman , 130 AD.2d 312, 520 N.Y.S.2d 226 (2d Dept. 1987)
Zeumer v. Fire Burglary Instruments, Inc. , 210 AD. 2d 318, 619 N.Y.S.2d 782 (2d Dept. 1994)
Specific Matters - Civil Rights: Langley v. Coughlin , 888 F.2d 252 (2d Cir. 1989)
Society for Good Will to Retarded Children v. Cuomo , 902 F.2d 1085 (2d Cir. 1990)
Day v. Morgenthau , 909 F.2d 75 (2d Cir. 1990)
Twersky v. Yeshiva University , 993 F. Supp. 2d. 429 (SDNY 2014), aff'd, 579 Fed. Appx. 7 (2d Cir. 2014)
Twersky v. Yeshiva University , 112 F. Supp. 3d 173 (SDNY 2015)
Specific Matters - Defamation: Samuels v. Berger , 191 AD. 2d 627, 595 N.Y.S.2d 231 (2d Dept. 1993)
David Roberts
Royal Palm Properties v. Rick S. Felberbaum, Felberbaum & Associates PA, Christie's International Realty,
Premier Estate Properties
Case Number: 232 Southern Third 371 (Fla. 4th DCA 2017)
The above representations were h
led by Mr. Mendelsohn prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, P.A.
Resort
Club Practice Litigation
Dispute Resolution: Wide-ranging representation of owners of golf
other recreational clubs including those in resorts
country club communities throughout the United States
in foreign jurisdictions. Advise developers
corporate bodies as to the resolution of disputes concerning membership plans, membership classes, dues
assessments, governance, voting rights, equity conversions, resigned membership reissuance, sales
mergers
member discipline.
Noteworthy Experience: Assistant attorney general, State of New York
Former special assistant attorney general, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Former special assistant attorney general, State of Connecticut
