Robert L. Herskovits

Robert concentrates his practice in the areas of securities litigation and regulatory enforcement matters. Robert routinely advises broker/dealers, industry professionals and investors in varied litigation, arbitration and regulatory matters relating to the securities industry. Robert is certified as an arbitrator for FINRA, AAA and the NFA and formerly served as in-house counsel for an NYSE-member broker/dealer.

Prior to forming Herskovits PLLC, Robert was a partner with Gusrae Kaplan Nusbaum PLLC for more than five years.

Robert received a JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and a BA from Syracuse University. Robert is admitted to practice in the State of New York and before various federal courts, including the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

An active participant in the bar, Robert is the Co-Chair of the Committee for Securities and Exchanges of the New York County Lawyers' Association. Robert's accomplishments were recently recognized by Thomson Reuters' "Super Lawyers", which designated Robert as a 2011 Rising Star in business litigation.

Practice Areas

•Securities Litigation and Arbitration
•Securities Industry Regulatory Defense
•Broker-Dealer Advisory Services
•Securities Industry Employment Litigation
•Commercial Litigation

Address

1065 Avenue of the Americas
27th Floor
New York, New York 10018

Contact:
Tel: (212) 897-5410
Fax: (646) 558-0239

The Wisconsin office that regulates attorney conduct asked the state Supreme Court on Wednesday to suspend a former prosecutor's law license for trying to spark an affair with a domestic abuse victim through a barrage of racy text messages and allegedly making sexual remarks to a number of other women.

The Office of Lawyer Regulation filed a complaint with the court alleging former Calumet County District Attorney Ken Kratz violated multiple attorney conduct rules. The office recommended the justices suspend his law license for six months.

Kratz resigned in October 2010 after The Associated Press reported that he sent 30 texts over three days to a then-25-year-old domestic abuse victim in 2009. The Republican district attorney was prosecuting the woman's ex-boyfriend at the time.

Kratz, then 50, called the woman a "tall, young, hot nymph," told her he wanted her to "be so hot" and touted himself as "the prize" with a $350,000 house.

He has since set up a private practice that handles criminal defense, drunken driving, divorce and injury cases, according to the firm's website. Kratz didn't respond to an email or phone message left Wednesday at his office, and his attorney, Robert Bellin, also didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

http://www.insiderexclusive.com/show-content/314-train-accidents--the-rachel-duncan-story.html

In the last 10 years, there have been more than 30,000 railroad crossing collisions resulting in more than 3600 deaths. And in almost every single case, the Railroad Companies fight "tooth and nail" to "blame" the victim for causing the accidents....which in many cases is actually the Railroad companies fault.

Last year Louisiana ranked "4th" nationally in vehicle and train fatalities and "1st" in the "Most Accidents per Public Grade Crossings" Train accidents and, specifically..... railroad crossing accidents.... can have devastating effects on motor vehicles. When a train hits another vehicle -- a car, truck or SUV -- the results are catastrophic. Often, these accidents and deaths could have been prevented.Figures from the National Transportation Safety Board state that approximately 60 percent of all railroad crossing fatalities occur at "unprotected" or passive crossings.

Passive crossings are those crossings with only a railroad crossing sign. The statistics also state that "Protected Crossings"..... those crossings with warning devices such as lights and gates,,,,, represent only 20 percent of the public railroad crossings in the United States. The National Transportation Safety Board publishes Some national statistics you should know........      

333 million -- Number of vehicles that cross railroad tracks every day 50% -- Percentage of vehicle/train collisions that occur at crossings with active warning devices (lights, gates, bells) 40x -- Times you are more likely to die in a crash with a train than you are to die in an automobile crash 2  Hrs-- Average time, in hours, between each incident where a vehicle or pedestrian is struck by a train.

The National Transportation Safety Board also lists The 10 most dangerous states for railroad crossing fatalities in 2010

- 26 Illinois railroad crossing accident fatalities in 2010
- 25 Florida railroad crossing deaths
- 24 California railroad crossing fatalities
- 19 Indiana railroad crossing deaths
- 17 Texas railroad crossing deaths
- 15 Louisiana railroad crossing deaths
- 13 Mississippi railroad crossing deaths
- 12 Ohio railroad crossing deaths
- 10 Alabama railroad crossing deaths
- 10 Missouri railroad crossing deaths

In this Insider Exclusive Special, "TRAIN ACCIDENTS - The Rachel Duncan Story", Rachel's lawyer, Michael Cox ,partner at the law firm of Cox Cox Filo, Camel & Wilson successfully got justice for Rachel. By proving that the tracks on which the Train  that rendered her a quadriplegic and killed her sister was obstructed by overgrown vegetation. Most importantly that the railroad company was and  is responsible for assuring that train crossing warning systems are active and in working order. Too often, railroad companies allow weeds, grass, trees and other vegetation to overgrow near railroad crossings. This overgrown foliage prevents motorists from seeing an oncoming train and causes these deadly catastrophic accidents.

We hope you'll tune in to ""TRAIN ACCIDENTS - The Rachel  Duncan Story"   this January  and join us on our TV website to watch it again.