Overview of Practice Areas

Our New York City law office provides experienced legal advice for commercial clients and individuals. Our emphasis on select practice areas helps us better serve our clients in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and throughout the United States. To schedule an appointment with one of our attorneys, contact us, Lewis & Hand, Attorneys at Law, LLP.

Real estate transactions
We handle real estate transactions for residential and commercial clients. Our Brooklyn real estate attorneys, Apryl Hand, and Dina Leytes assist buyers and sellers in transactions involving condominiums, coops, single-family homes, and multi-use properties.

Internet law
Our Internet lawyers, Brett Lewis, Melissa Apfelbaum and Dina Leytes, are experienced in all manner of domain name transactions and disputes, including domain name licensing and sale agreements, parked page monetization agreements, domain name hijacking, Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) disputes, and Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) litigation.  We also handle licensing agreements, services agreements and privacy policies, as well as trademark and copyright litigation, as it involves the Internet.

Licensing and Agreements
Our attorneys have broad experience in the fields of software, technology, intellectual property and content licensing, including marketing, domain name, and other types of Internet business agreements. Lewis & Hand, LLP currently represents a wide range of entities, from small publicly traded companies to emerging start-up ventures, as well as individual entrepreneurs, across a variety of industries (including, for example, Internet and domain names, marketing, graphic design, apparel, cosmetics, jewelry and accessories manufacturing, financial information technology, restaurant and food production, landscaping and construction, and film and entertainment).

Intellectual Property Litigation
Lewis & Hand attorneys have experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in the fields of copyright, trademark and entertainment-industry litigation.  Among other matters, we handle copyright and trademark infringement actions, royalty disputes, agent/manager disputes, non-competition/trade secrets issues, first amendment/defamation, fraud and misrepresentation claims, and breach of fiduciary duty claims.

Trademark Law
It’s important to be sure that your trademark isn’t infringing on someone else’s mark, and to protect your marks when they are being infringed. Brooklyn trademark lawyers Brett Lewis, Melissa Apfelbaum and Dina Leytes help clients through the lengthy and complex process of choosing and registering a trademark, and in policing and enforcing their trademark rights.

Entertainment Law
Our Entertainment attorneys represent the interests of individuals, artists, companies and organizations in all areas of the entertainment industry, including film, television, music, theatre, new media, publishing, and visual arts and design. Lewis & Hand, LLP lawyers Brett Lewis and Jack Yachbes combine solid entertainment industry experience with a very personal and hands on approach to client representation.

Estate planning
Our New York City estate planning attorney, Apryl Hand, helps people plan for the future. We take a comprehensive approach to estate planning, analyzing your entire situation and providing a full-range of legal options to achieve your goals. We also assist clients with Medicaid planning and health care directives. We represent families and heirs in probate and administration matters. Apryl Hand is experienced in handling estate issues for same-sex couples including domestic partnership agreements and wills. We also assist owners of domesticated pets in creating appropriate trust arrangements to ensure that your faithful companions are cared for in the event of your death or incapacitating illness or injury.

Probate and Administration
Brooklyn probate attorney Apryl Hand helps facilitate a smooth transfer of assets for clients, so that their legal necessities can be the least of their worries in their time of grief. We help clients find missing beneficiaries and assets, and we also handle all aspects of the court proceedings required to administer an estate or probate your loved one’s will.

Small Business Services
Our business law practice assists new and established companies in a wide range of business and corporate matters. We are experienced with business organization and reorganization, providing our clients with a thorough analysis of the benefits of different corporate forms. We provide assistance in developing and documenting appropriate employment and consulting arrangements, including executive compensation, incentive plans, employee handbooks and policies, as well as non-competition/confidentiality agreements to help protect valuable trade secrets and other intellectual property. We also provide contract review, vendor dispute representation, and any other legal services that our clients require as their business grows.

For web-based businesses, Lewis & Hand, LLP Internet attorneys offer a full range of services, including web developer contracts, website terms of use and privacy policies, copyright registration for logos, images and web content, trademark registration and branding advice, and DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) safe harbor protections.

Commercial Litigation
In the area of commercial litigation, Lewis & Hand litigators have helped clients in a broad range of industries settle disputes and attain satisfying results in the federal and state courts of New York, and through alternate dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation, throughout the United States.

Employment Agreements and Policies
Our employment practice assists both individuals and companies with the review and negotiation of employment and consulting contracts, including non-competition and separation agreements. For employers, our employment practice can analyze existing compensation and benefit plans and agreements for compliance with current law, including federal tax law Section 409A, and recommend appropriate changes. We also assist our clients with developing employee handbooks and other human resources policies that comply with the latest federal and state law developments. Our employment practice has experience with bonus plans, retention and change in control agreements, stock option and restricted stock plans and agreements.

We are dedicated to providing responsive, high-quality legal representation for our clients. If you need advice in a corporate formation matter or domain registration conflict, call Lewis & Hand. Contact a New York City business law and international Internet law firm.

Lewis & Hand
Attorneys at Law, LLP
45 Main Street, Suite 608
Brooklyn, NY 11201-8200

Phone: (718) 243-9323
Fax: (718) 243-9326

Serving Internet law clients throughout the United States and internationally.
Estate planning, business organization, and real estate transaction services are provided for clients
throughout the New York metropolitan area, including the Bronx, Queens, New York City, Manhattan, Staten Island, and Brooklyn, New York.

New York County, Westchester County, Nassau County, Kings County, Rockland County