In Uniondale, law firm expands

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Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, the law firm headquartered in Uniondale, is expanding.

The firm recently welcomed seven new attorneys, including the founding partners of another firm.

Joining the firm are Doug Wasser and Adam Russ, partners; Adam Rosen, of counsel; and Brittany Adikes, Tyla Phillip, Jacqueline Fink, and Madison Scarfaro, associates.

“It is with great pleasure that we welcome Doug, Adam Russ, Adam Rosen, Brittany, Tyla, Jacqueline, and Madison to the firm,” Adam Silvers, managing partner at Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, said in a news release about the expansion.

“Their impressive backgrounds and dedication to excellence resonate deeply with our firm’s values and objectives,” Silvers added. “We are eager to see how each of their unique perspectives and skills will enhance our collective success. Together, we will maintain our commitment to delivering exceptional service to our clients and the Long Island community, upholding the highest standards of professionalism.”

Wasser and Russ were previously founding partners of Wasser & Russ. Wasser has joined the firm’s Real Estate Department and Fine Art Law Practice Group, while Russ joined the firm’s Commercial Litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), and Insurance & Insurance Litigation departments, along with the Fine Art Law Practice Group.  Rosen joined the firm’s Financial Services, Banking & Bankruptcy Department and the Corporate Restructuring & Bankruptcy Practice Group.

Phillip, Fink and Scarfaro previously interned as summer associates. Fink and Scarfaro, who interned in 2023, will rotate through the firm’s six core departments, while Phillip, who interned in both 2022 and 2023, will join the Health Law Department. Adikes has joined the firm’s Commercial Litigation Department and Cannabis Law Practice Group.

Bringing more than 40 years of real estate and general business law experience, Wasser represents parties who are leasing or subleasing office space. He has helped international conglomerates, owners and operators of hotels, office buildings, apartment buildings, former factories, airport hangars, hospitals, academic campuses and warehouses as well as medical and dental practices, law firms and small and medium sized businesses.

Russ litigates sensitive business and legal problems and disputes. He helps clients in complex contract and commercial disputes before state and federal courts, arbitration tribunals, and mediators throughout the nation. He has litigated, tried, arbitrated, and mediated insurance and reinsurance disputes, insurance runoff and agency disputes, fine-art title, ownership and authenticity disputes, business torts, declaratory actions, bad faith and insurance coverage claims.  He has prosecuted and defended actions for clients in such industries as insurance; fine art dealers, auctions and collectors; electronics; technology; manufacturing; banking and financial; healthcare; real estate; construction; and sanitation. He also advises and represents clients in connection with commercial and business transactions.

Wasser and Russ represent all parties in the fine art world, including auction houses, investors, collectors, estate and fiduciaries, advisors, artists, galleries, and others in connection with all aspects of fine art disputes and transactions.

Rosen brings more than 35 years of experience, representing public and private companies, trustees, receivers, creditors, insurance companies and other financial institutions. His focus includes business-oriented solutions to complex insolvency problems. His experience includes middle-market cases, as well as several of the largest chapter 11 cases, including Madoff Securities, Toys r Us, Neiman Marcus, WeWork, Rite-Aid, FTX Trading Ltd., and LATAM Airlines. Rosen has authored or co-authored several articles and outlines involving bankruptcy and restructuring issues and is a contributing author to the “Collier Practice Guide” bankruptcy treatise. He is an American College of Bankruptcy fellow and, from 2001 to 2018, was an adjunct professor of law at the St. John’s School of Law.

Adikes focuses on complex commercial and civil litigation matters. Adikes previously served as a member of the Cannabis Practice Group at a nationwide law firm, assisting clients in the hemp and marijuana industries on litigation, regulatory, and corporate matters across multiple states. She received her J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law through the advanced combined degree program, and served as a law clerk for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Aviation Administration. She is admitted to practice law in the courts of New York State and Oregon State, as well as the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Oregon.

Phillip received her Juris Doctor from Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center where she received an award For Exemplary Contributions to the Quality of Student Life as well as the Martin Schwartz Award for Excellence in Civil Rights. She was selected as a 2024 Pro Bono Scholar and spent her last semester at Legal Aid Society of Nassau County’s Juvenile Defense Bureau.

Fink received her Juris Doctor from Touro, where she received the 2024 Outstanding Law Student Award from the National Association of Women’s Lawyers, and served as the president of the Federal Bar Association, Law Student Division, vice president of the Touro Tax Law Society, and project director for the International Refugee Assistance Project, Student Division.

Scarfaro received her Juris Doctor from Touro, where she graduated as salutatorian, summa cum laude, and received the Dean Emeritus Howard A. Glickstein Award for Outstanding Leadership and Overall Academic Excellence. Scarfaro graduated as a 2024 Pro Bono Scholar, and spent her final semester of law school, working with the Federal Defenders of the Eastern District of New York.