* John P Bracken - Trial Attorneys: Islip NY

Practice Areas
* Litigation
* Personal Injury and Products Liability
* Professional Discipline and Liability
* Real Estate
* Business Transactions
* Estates, Wills, Trusts and Elder Law
* Criminal Law
* Labor and Employment Law
* Land Use and Municipal Law
* Professional Relationships

Bracken & Margolin, LLP was founded in 1986, and has been engaged in the general practice of law, with an emphasis on litigation and business practice. Our litigation practice embraces a wide range of business disputes, personal injury and products liability claims, labor law issues, civil rights claims and contested estate matters. The firm has periodically been engaged as trial counsel to the profession. The broad scope of our litigation practice gives us a wide and balanced perspective on how to use litigation effectively to pursue a particular objective, including settling a case to advantage, as well as successfully litigating a case to its conclusion.

Our business practice encompasses a wide range of transactions and counseling, with an emphasis on real estate, including leases, acquisitions and mortgages, municipal law, labor relations and employment regulations, corporate counseling, the sale or purchase of assets or stock, the formation of partnerships, corporations and limited liability companies, joint ventures, arbitrations arising within specific industries, tax certiorari and condemnation, health law, probate and administration of estates, wills, trusts and estate planning.

Clients of the firm range from individuals and newly-formed companies to established corporations, partnerships, title companies, investment advisors, employee associations, homeowner associations, municipalities and professionals.

* Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer by the National Board of Legal Specialty Certification

John P Bracken
Bracken & Margolin LLP
1 Suffolk Square #300
Islandia NY 11749
Tel: 631 234-8585
Fax: 631 234-8702

JOHN P. BRACKEN was born in Rockville Centre, New York in 1938, and became a member of the New York State Bar in 1963. Mr. Bracken is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York. He graduated from Hobart College (B.A., 1960) and Fordham University (J.D., 1963), and served as a Captain in the United States Marine Corps from 1964-67.

Mr. Bracken has served on the New York State Judicial Screening Committee, Second Judicial Department, since his appointment by the Governor in 1983. He is an active member of the American Arbitration Association Panel of Arbitrators, the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Suffolk and Nassau County Bar Associations, American Association for Justice, and the American Judicature Society.

His leadership roles have included President of the New York State Bar Association in 1992-93, President of the Suffolk County Bar Association in 1984-85, and President of the Suffolk County Criminal Bar Association in 1981-82. Mr. Bracken is also a Fellow and Director of the New York State Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Additionally, he is a member of the American Bar Association House of Delegates, he is certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and he is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Mr. Bracken has authored and presented numerous articles, speeches and lectures on various topics, including participation in programs of the Suffolk Academy of Law, the New York State Bar Association, the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, Hofstra University Law School, and Touro Law School.

Mr. Bracken has extensive experience in general commercial litigation, torts and trials, in both state and federal courts. He has represented corporations in business counseling, drafting of agreements, patent and infringement letters and the like. Mr. Bracken is a member of the Stony Brook Rotary Club, is a Paul Harris Fellow of the International Rotary Foundation, and is Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Empire National Bank.

In addition to having an "AV" attorney rating in Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, Mr. Bracken is also listed in Martindale-Hubbell's Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.