Howard Chetkof is partner at Levin & Chetkof, LLP. He is a seasoned attorney and a highly skilled negotiator concentrating his practice in personal injury. He has represented clients who have sustained all types of serious personal injuries as the result of automobile accidents, motorcycle accidents, trucking accidents, pedestrian’s struck by motor vehicles, wrongful death, construction site accidents, premisses liability, trip/slip and falls, dog bites, assault and battery, nursing home negligence, and certain medical malpractice matters. Mr. Chetkof’s representation of injured individuals has extended to both the state and federal Courts. In addition, Mr. Chetkof handles matters involving legal malpractice, no-fault/first party benefit arbitrations and real estate.
Mr. Chetkof, and the firm handle their cases from inception to conclusion, including the claims stage, litigation, trials and appeals. He has also directly negotiated and handled hundreds of cases at mediations and arbitrations and has recovered millions of dollars for his clients. Not only does he represent his firms client’s, Mr. Chetkof has been retained as outside counsel, by other law firms, to represent their clients interests at mediations, arbitrations, trials and appeals.
While a member of the Brooklyn Bar Association, Mr. Chetkof served as the chairman of the No-Fault arbitration committee, served on the civil review committee for civil court judges and the grievance committee (dealing with complaints/disputes between clients and their attorneys).
Mr. Chetkof believes that every client has the right to talk directly to their attorney, not just the office staff, and has an open door policy for the firm’s active clients, former clients and prospective clients.
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Michael Levin is a partner of the Firm who has acquired vast and significant experience in all facets of commercial and civil litigation; corporate transactional work; no-fault law and real estate transactions/litigation. Mr. Levin’s work has allowed him to successfully prosecute and defend all manners of contract disputes; shareholder disputes; corporate dissolution; ERISA/insurance litigation; copyright infringement; and mortgage fraud. Litigation experiences have marked his guidance of individuals seeking to create new business entities allowing him to anticipate potential shareholder disputes and/or internal challenges. These frank conversations have allowed him to foment a close working relationship with new corporate entities and/or those seeking to create and execute other internal corporate documentation.
Mr. Levin has further protected the rights of medical providers performing no-fault work. His work has allowed Medical Providers to recover hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees for outstanding medical bills that had been arbitrarily and/or improperly denied them by insurance carriers. Mr. Levin’s work with medical providers extends to both State and Federal Litigation in which he seeks the recovery of appropriate fees from private insurance companies and welfare funds for the performance of medical services. Mr. Levin has also represented many clients in real estate transactional work (both commercial and residential) and in real estate litigation. His varied litigation and transactional experience allows Mr. Levin to provide sound and meaningful counsel to his clients.
While attending law school, Mr. Levin served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ute Wolff Lally, then a Justice of the District Court, Nassau County, and later a Justice of the Supreme Court, Nassau County.
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