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Bill-Cafaro

William Cafaro, Partner

After law school, Bill Cafaro worked as a criminal defense attorney in Northern California. In 1981, he returned to his native New York to serve as a Narcotics Prosecutor in the Bronx District Attorney’s Office until 1986, when he turned his focus to personal injury as a sole practitioner in Jackson Heights, Queens. Having come a long way since then, Mr. Cafaro has taken several eight-figure verdicts and has obtained numerous seven figure verdicts and settlements. He is a firm believer in exhaustive trial preparation, with particular attention to medical animations and illustrations of the specific injuries sustained by each client.

Over the last six years, Mr. Cafaro has applied his litigation skills toward representing employees aggressively in overtime and discrimination cases. He has represented hundreds of workers successfully in individual wage and hour cases, including class and collective actions. He also litigates discrimination cases in both the federal and state courts.

Fluency in Spanish helps Mr. Cafaro to communicate with clients in their native language.

Professional Recognition

  • Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum

Bar and Court Admissions

  • New York, 1981
  • California, 1979
  • Texas, 2000
  • Maryland, 1997
  • United States District Courts, Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of New York, and the Central District of California
  • United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

Professional Memberships and Activities

  • National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA)
  • NY State Chapter of the National Employment Lawyer’s Assn. (NELA/NY)New York State Trial Lawyers Association (NYSTLA) past member of the Board of Directors and former member of the Labor Law Committee
  • New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers

Education

  • University of San Diego School of Law, J. D., 1979
  • Fordham University, B.S. degree, Accounting, 1976

 

Attorney-Andrew-Buzin

Andrew Buzin, Of Counsel

Andrew S. Buzin specializes in civil trial law, and takes cases involving personal injury, medical malpractice and wrongful death, employment and wage and hour law, and business litigation. He has earned significant verdicts at trial, including one for $28,000,000 involving a high school’s negligent supervision of a 14-year old cognitively impaired girl. He has tried numerous cases to verdict and has settled multi-million dollar cases throughout his career.

Mr. Buzin is also an adjunct professor of Lawyering Skills and Legal Writing at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
Before practicing in New York, Mr. Buzin spent four years at a Florida law firm focusing on general negligence cases, as well as those involving legal and accounting malpractice. He also managed over 100 individual asbestos claims.

Mr. Buzin graduated cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law with a Juris Doctorate in 2003, and from the University of Miami School of Business with a Masters of Business Administration in Taxation in 2003. He is a member of the Florida Bar and the New York Bar, and he is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Southern District of New York and the Eastern District of New York.

In the News

“New Rochelle school officials failed to prevent a ninth-grader from being raped by a fellow classmate in a New Rochelle High School stairwell during a school day in January 2020, a lawsuit alleges.”
See the article below or click on the following:

 Suit: The Rape of a 9th Grader at New Rochelle High School

Education

  • University of Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, Florida, 2003
    Juris Doctorate
    Honors: Cum Laude
  • University of Miami Graduate School of Business, Coral Gables, Florida, 2003
    Masters of Business Administration
    Specialization: Taxation
  • New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York, New York, 2000
    Bachelor of Science
    Majors: Finance and Management and Organizational Behavior
    Minor: Political Science

Bar Admissions

  • Florida, 2003
  • New York, 2007
  • Supreme Court of the United States, 2006
  • Southern District of New York, 2007
  • Eastern District of New York, 2007
  • District of Columbia, 2004 (inactive)
Nicholas-Duran-Office-Manager

Nicholas Duran
Office Manager / Head Paralegal

As the Office Manager and Head Paralegal at the Law Offices of William Cafaro, Mr. Duran is advanced at trial presentation by way of Trial Director Software and other programs. He assists in the legal process from intake to outcome, taking every necessary measure to maintain client comfort without jeopardizing case value.

Focusing on a diverse legal environment ranging from extreme Personal Injury such as, construction accidents, slip and falls, defective products, wrongful deaths and medical malpractice to the practice of Employment Law under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and New York Labor Law (NYLL), his efforts are executed within the Federal Courts, State Courts and Appellate Courts.

Mr. Duran proudly assists the firm in maintaining its integrity in connection with obtaining prestigious multi-million dollar awards in complex cases. He provides bilingual communication to assure client comfort in any environment to maximize client confidence. Along with providing paralegal services such as intake, drafting legal documents, proof reading, e-filing within the State and Federal Courts and scheduling matters, he also oversees office operations from in-house compliance to company accounting and executes extensive investigations which are essential in assessing culpability.

 

Education

  • John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice
  • La Guardia Community College, Associates in Paralegal Studies

Language

    As a son of Hispanic immigrants, Mr. Duran is fluent in Spanish.

     

Licenses and Certifications

  • Certified Notary Public
  • Emergency Program Manager, US Department of Homeland Security (FEMA)

 

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