Neil Berkowitz

Neil is an experienced trial attorney who has worked on government investigations, insurance coverage matters, and civil and personal injury litigation. He is experienced in every aspect of civil litigation from the minutiae of serving complaints and attending status hearings to the intricacies of drafting motions and trying cases in complex matters. He is also fluent in German and conversational in Russian.Among other matters, Neil has:Guided clients through civil litigation from start to finish, from pleading through discovery to settlementQuestioned defendants and represented plaintiffs at depositions and arbitration hearingsThird chaired a trial in the Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois which resulted in the denial of the discharge for a petitioner seeking to conceal assets and avoid creditors.Served in a team of attorneys for the monitorship of a major financial institution on-site in Zurich, Switzerland, with responsibilities including the production and review of German language documents, collaboration in the drafting of a comprehensive report for the New York Department of Financial Services, and strictly observing Swiss Banking Secrecy Laws.