Richard Gabriele is Counsel to our Litigation Department.  He has more than thirty years of experience in a wide range of civil and commercial litigation, including contract and partnership disputes, antitrust and trade regulation, lawsuits arising from various aspects of real estate transactions, health law issues, and zoning and municipal matters.  He has been in private practice since 1985 and conducted many trials, both jury and non-jury.  His legal experience also includes an extensive amount of appellate work.  He has argued cases in every appellate division of the State of New York, and has appeared before both the New York Court of Appeals and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  He is also admitted to the federal U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the Ninth Circuit, the District of Columbia Circuit and to the United States Supreme Court.

Richard has represented private parties as well as municipalities and zoning boards in numerous Article 78 and administrative proceedings relating to land use and zoning matters.  He is currently general counsel to the Village of Great Neck Plaza.  He also has many years of experience in antitrust litigation, having previously served as the Deputy Bureau Chief of the Antitrust Bureau in the Office of the New York State Attorney General during the tenure of Attorney General Robert Abrams.  While there, his office was involved in the successful investigation and prosecution of the milk and concrete industries, among others, resulting in the recovery of millions of dollars in fines and damages.  Richard began his legal career working for Nassau Suffolk Law Services where he headed the Impact and Law Reform Unit.

Richard received his law degree from Yale Law School in 1973 where he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Organization.  Before Yale, he was educated by the Jesuits for eight years at Regis High School and Fordham College.  He graduated summa cum laude from Fordham, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was his class valedictorian.  He has also studied and received a degree in political science from the Institute d Etudes Politiques in Paris. He has been active for many years in community organizations, including his local P.A.L. and numerous school district committees.  He is currently serving as a member of the Board of Trustees of the NYS IOLA Fund.