Cichanowicz, Callan, Keane, Vengrow & Textor, LLP
Practice Areas

Admiralty & Maritime Law - Our firm represents clients in legal issues relating to the sea including shipping, marine cargo, and workers injured at sea, on navigable waters, or while working in harbor. We also represent clients in contract negotiations for shipping cargo and in resolving issues that result from performance of those contracts and have extensive expertise in the requirements of the Jones Act and the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act.

Administrative Law - Our firm represents clients in all aspects of Federal and state regulation, including administrative appeals and litigation before the courts. We are well versed in the requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act, which deals with administrative hearings and adjudication, administrative investigations, administrative officers and agents, administrative rulemaking, licensing, and regulatory enforcement. We specialize in business and economic regulation, industry restructuring and deregulation, contracting and project development, trade regulation, and legislative consultation and lobbying registration and reporting requirements.

Litigation and Appeals - Our firm represents and advises clients who are or might become involved in a lawsuit or appeal as a result of a dispute, including prevention and settlement, in such areas as personal injury and employment claims, contract disputes, and family law and commercial matters.

Employment Law - Employment law covers a complex network of laws that controls how employers must treat employees, former employees, and applicants for employment. Our firm has experience in interpreting and construing state and Federal statutes and case law in areas such as employment discrimination, affirmative action, sexual harassment, employee benefits, whistleblower litigation, wrongful discharge, employment contracts, the Americans With Disabilities Act, the Family Medical Leave Act, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, the Federal Employer's Liability Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and special laws governing municipal employment.

Alternative Dispute Resolution - Arbitration, International Dispute Resolution, Mediation Mini-Trials.

Business Organizations - Closely Held Businesses, Directors & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Formation & Business Planning, Partnerships.

Contracts - Service Contracts.

Corporate; Employment - Employer - Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination Representing Management, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower.

Energy - Oil Loss, Shortage, Contamination, Demurrage.

Environmental - Water Pollution.

Government Agencies & Programs

Government Contracts

Immigration - Non-Immigrant E,H,L Visa and Green Cards.

Insurance - Bad-Faith, Commercial Insurance, Errors and Omissions Insurance Defense; Litigation & Appeals Federal Appellate Practice, Federal Trial Practice, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice.

Maritime Defense Personal Injury & Claims Transportation - Railroad, Shipping, Trucking, NVOCC, Air Freight Forwarding, FMC Freight Forwarding.


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