Jeffrey A. Miller is the Chairman of our Litigation Department. Jeff has experience in all aspects of business and commercial litigation. Jeff’s experience includes bench and jury trials and appeals work in connection with corporate and partnership disputes, dissolutions, real estate disputes, securities fraud, antitrust and business torts, insurance law disputes, intellectual property and internet law disputes, shareholder derivative suits, Section 1983 and constitutional torts, product liability litigation, municipal law disputes, tax protests, alternative dispute resolution and contested matters in bankruptcy cases. Jeff is a qualified mediator for the New York State Office of Court Administration and is certified to mediate commercial cases pending in the New York State Supreme Court.

In an effort to protect clients and avoid complex and expensive litigation, Jeff regularly counsels business clients on the legal methods of preventing competitors and employees from damaging businesses. This includes advice involving maintaining customer lists and other proprietary information and trade secrets in a manner so as to be lawfully considered “confidential”, preventing key employees from unlawfully diverting business, preparing and enforcing restrictive covenant, non-compete and non-solicitation agreements, and protecting businesses from predatory buyers and competitors. Jeff conducts seminars for institutional and other clients on these and other business issues. He has successfully litigated restrictive covenant, non-solicitation agreement and trade secret cases and regularly obtains expedited relief, including temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions, in many of these and other commercial cases. 

Jeff is one of a handful of lawyers in the Country selected to represent victims and families of United States citizens killed abroad by foreign governments that sponsor terrorism, or terrorist groups that receive support and resources from such governments. In February 2002, Jeff won a $183.2 Million judgment on behalf of the family of one such victim and he has been actively involved in the successful enactment of legislation to protect and compensate the families of these victims. 

Jeff has authored a number of articles for national and local publications and is a regular contributor to “The Litigation Review” column published in the New York Law Journal. That column discusses and comments on significant commercial decisions of the Federal and State Courts in New York. 

Jeff earned his law degree with honors from Touro Law School in 1992 where he served as a Senior Staff Member of the Law Review. During law school, Jeff clerked for Justice Peter Fox Cohalan of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County. Jeff received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Management from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1989. He is Co-Chairman of the Commercial Litigation Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association and is actively involved in a number of charitable organizations including being a member of the Advisory Board of The We Care Fund, the charitable arm of the Nassau County Bar Association responsible for raising money annually to help those in need in Nassau County.

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