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Lawyer Overview

William Betz, with more than 20 years of experience practicing law, provides a full range of legal services to individuals and businesses in the New York Metropolitan area.

Mr. Betz is admitted to practice law in the New York State courts, in the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, in the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Ninth Circuit and in the United States Supreme Court.

The Betz Law Office Provides legal services in matrimonial and family law, civil and criminal litigation, real estate, wills and decedent's estate practice, corporate law and business partnerships.

Mr. Betz has specialized over the years in civil litigation, having handled cases in the areas of matrimonial and family law, contracts, personal and business torts, civil rights, corporate litigation, including involuntary dissolution, employment law, Federal constitutional law, estate litigation, and international business transactions. He is an experienced trial lawyer in both jury and non-jury cases.

Mr. Betz similarly has extensive experience in appellate practice in the New York and Federal courts.

An honors graduate of New York Law School where he was a member of the New York Law School Review, Mr. Betz worked for the prestigious New York City law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore while attending law school. He associated after graduation with Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York and with several smaller firms in New York City and Long Island before opening his own law office in 1987.

From 1999 until 2001 William Betz was responsible for civil litigation as Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, stationed in Saipan, where he was also called upon to participate in high-profile criminal prosecutions.

Representative Litigation

In the area of matrimonial and family law, William Betz has successfully represented clients in high-profile divorces involving substantial assets. He has also had unique success in representing fathers in custody proceedings.

Mr. Betz has represented corporations in formation, contract disputes and dissolution proceedings. He has represented individuals and small, privately owned corporations and partnerships engaged in a variety of industries, including the film and videotape industry, brokerage, food services, printing, products sales and distribution, real estate, automobile sales and leasing, and dry cleaning, among others.

In addition, Mr. Betz has substantial experience in representing disaffected shareholders in private, "close" corporations seeking to protect their rights after they were frozen out of the operation of business or otherwise oppressed by the controlling shareholders.

Mr. Betz has represented clients in the federal courts seeking to protect or vindicate their rights in civil rights litigation against both the local (state and city) and federal governments.

In addition, Mr. Betz has successfully represented business executives and employees in contractual employment disputes and employment discrimination matters in the federal and state courts.

Other experience includes the representation of clients in securities arbitration before the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), personal injury matters, professional (medical and legal) malpractice litigation, immigration litigation, bankruptcy litigation and criminal defense.

Mr. Betz is available to discuss with you your legal rights and options both in and out of the judicial system.

Contact

For a consultation, please call, in Suffolk County, (631) 586-1111; in Nassau Count, (516) 641-9906; or send e-mail.

Mr. Betz's law offices are located in Port Washington and Hauppauge, New York, with convenient access to the Nassau and Suffolk County courts and the five Boroughs of New York City.

Areas of Practice

• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Business & Commercial Law
• Civil Rights
• Constitutional Law
• Employment Law -- Employee
• Employment Law -- Employer
• Wills
• Family Law
• Litigation & Appeals
• Real Estate Law

West Practice Categories

Alternative Dispute Resolution, Business & Commercial Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Employment Law -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employer, Wills, Family Law, Litigation & Appeals, Real Estate Law

Bar Admissions

• New York, 1984
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 1984
• U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1984
• U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit, 1989
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 2000

Past Employment Positions

• Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Associate, 1983 - 1985
• Raoul Felder, Associate, 1996 - 1997

Education

• New York Law School, New York, New York
  J.D.
  Honors: cum laude
  
  Law Review: New York Law School Law Review, 1980 - 1981
• St. John's University, Jamaica, New York, USA, 1972
  B.A.
  Major: English

Published Works

• For the Retention of Diversity Jurisdiction, NYS Bar Journal, 1984

Address

1010 Northern Boulevard
Suite 208
Great Neck, NY 11021-5320

Phones

(516) 641-9906

Faxes

(516) 767-0545

Emails

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Websites

http://www.williambetz.com