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Since its 1968 founding, Uniondale law
firm Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, P.C. has
constantly been evolving and expanding
to best meet the changing needs of its clients.
Over the past half-century, the firm has built
cornerstone groups in major practice areas of
law, including corporate and securities, financial
services, commercial litigation, healthcare, real
estate, employment, trusts and estates, and – in
recent years – cybersecurity and data privacy.
We recently caught up with Adam P. Silvers, a
managing partner of the firm, who is a member
of its Corporate and Securities Department and
Intellectual Property Group as well as Chair of
the Technology Practice Group.
Question: What is the mission of Ruskin
Moscou Faltischek?
Answer: To provide the highest-quality
legal services for our clients, at a reasonable
price, to help them achieve their business and
personal objectives. That’s the mission. Our
tagline: “Smart Counsel. Straight Talk.” We
want to know as much as we can about our
clients’ circumstances in order to advise them
accurately. We look at every relationship as a
long-term relationship and we dive into our
client representations with those things in mind.
It’s really about the client and what their goals
are, and we aim to provide legal services to allow
our clients to achieve their goals.
Q: How has technology changed the way you
handle cases and clients?
A: It’s made us a lot more efficient. In
litigation, e-discovery is in the forefront now,
where 10 to 15 years ago, you really didn’t have
to deal with that. What that means is a lot of
documents – a lot of evidence – is searched for
electronically today on your emails, on your
servers. Data rooms allow collaboration and
sharing of due diligence and documents among
multiple parties. An electronic data room is
established where documents are stored and
categorized. That allows multiple parties –
buyers, sellers, investment bankers – to all access
the same documents and look at the same things
in one place. So, now you don’t have to have
physical copies if you don’t want them and you
can search them electronically. It just makes life
much easier.
Ruskin Moscou Faltischek Managing Partner Adam Silvers
talks tech, smart counseling and straight talk
Q: How have cybersecurity
issues impacted your company?
A: It’s impacted us in two
respects. We were one of
the first firms in the area to
establish a cybersecurity practice
dedicated to serving our clients.
The cybersecurity practice
has two components. One is
prevention. New, often complex
restructuring requirements, have
mandated that most companies
take affirmative steps to prevent breaches. The
second involves us in responding to actual vs.
suspected breaches. What happens if a client
suffers a breach? We get in there, we help assess
the severity of the breach and the consequences
and then there are legal steps that need to be
taken and we assist the client in those responses.
Q: Is there a common piece of advice that you
find applies to all your clients?
A: I firmly believe that most companies’ biggest
asset is their people. Make sure you have and
make sure you can retain top-quality people
because without them, no matter what you have,
you’re not going to be successful.
Q: What sets Ruskin Moscou Faltischek apart
from other law firms?
A: I think the entrepreneurial spirit that we
have here is a hallmark of the firm. I think –
more than most other firms – we
allow the lawyers in this firm, if
they come up with an idea, to
run with it. The perfect example
is the cybersecurity practice. That
idea was developed internally a
few years back and has developed
into what has become our fastestgrowing
practice.
Q: What misperceptions about
the firm would you like to
clarify?
A: That we don’t have the capability or the
capacity to do corporate and securities work and
public company work that the city firms have.
We like to educate companies on Long Island
so that they don’t have to go into Manhattan
to get top-quality legal services. They can just
look right in their own backyard. We provide the
same level of service or better, quite frankly, than
larger firms for a lower price point. Sometimes
significantly lower.
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