Glen Feinberg provides trial and litigation services to clients in commercial, employment/discrimination, and professional liability disputes. His career has seen him bring his skills to bear on the most delicate and highest-risk cases for an array of clients.
Glen focuses his practice on the defense of individuals and institutions sued for claims involving severe emotional distress and psychiatric injury. This work often implicates New York’s Child Victims Act and similar laws throughout the country. In handling these ultra-sensitive matters, Glen invokes his network of esteemed local counsel, as well as his knowledge of neurobiology and cutting-edge psychotherapy techniques.
Glen’s forward-looking approach makes him uniquely qualified to provide world-class counsel to the most vulnerable defendants.
Glen began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney under Robert Morgenthau in Manhattan.
RG v iD Tech: Glen developed information in civil discovery, which proved that his client’s camp employee had been falsely accused and wrongfully convicted of sexual assault. The counselor’s conviction was overturned by the District of Columbia Superior Court and the case against Glen’s client was dismissed.
AB v Clarkstown Soccer: The United States District Court granted Glen’s motion for summary judgment, dismissing the claims against his client, which employed a coach who was convicted of having an improper relationship with the plaintiff. The court held that Glen’s client was not negligent because it did not have notice of the coach’s propensity for such behavior.
Marmelstein v Kehillat New Hempstead: The New York State Court of Appeals held that Glen’s client, a rabbi, did not owe a fiduciary duty to a congregant who claimed he induced her into an improper relationship. The court dismissed the case.
Jones v Archdiocese of New York: The court granted Glen’s motion for summary judgment, holding that the plaintiff failed to prove that his client knew or should have known that a teacher had the propensity to engage in improper conduct with students.
New York
US District Court, Southern District of New York
US District Court, Eastern District of New York
US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Assistant District Attorney, Manhattan
University of Virginia School of Law, JD
American University, BA
Jeff leads the firm's motions and appeals practice. As an appellate attorney, Jeff has successfully argued appeals in New York's First, Second, and Third Departments. In crafting strategies to protect his clients' interests, Jeff regularly draws upon his experience working as a court attorney and law clerk for over a decade at the Appellate Division, Second Department, where he handled all types of civil, criminal, and matrimonial matters.
Jeff served for six years as a Reporter to the committee of New York Judges that authors the New York Pattern Jury Instructions (known by practicing attorneys and judges simply as the “PJI”). The PJI, a four-volume treatise of jury instructions and legal commentaries, is used in every civil jury trial in New York.
New York
New Jersey
Former Town Justice for the Town of Ossining (January 2021 – December 2024)
Served as member of the Village of Ossining Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee
Former Member, Board of Directors, IFCA Housing Network
Former Member, Village of Ossining Planning Board
Served as Co-Chair of the Village of Ossining Downtown Redevelopment Working Committee, which was awarded the 2018 Planning Achievement Award from the Westchester Municipal Planning Federation
Coached multiple youth baseball teams (Ossining JCYS)
Principal Law Clerk to Hon. Barry E. Warhit, Westchester Supreme and County Court (Supervising Judge of the Criminal Courts) (2021 to 2022)
Principal Law Clerk to Hon. Francesca E. Connolly (2013 to 2021)
Appellate Division, Second Department (2016 to 2021)
Supreme Court, Westchester County (Civil Part and Environmental Claims Part) (2013 to 2016)
Court Attorney, NYS Appellate Division, Second Department (2008 to 2013)
Pace Law School, J.D., cum laude (2008)
Pace Environmental Law Review, Editor-in-Chief (2007 to 2008)
Certificate of Concentration in Environmental Law
Received the Bohn Vergari Public Service Award for the Best Environmental Law Student and the Henry M. Feldschuh Environmental Law Award
Hunter College, B.A. (2005)
Recipient of the Westchester County Bar Association New Lawyers Leadership Award (2015)
Mary Chapyak Pernicone served as Senior Principal Law Clerk to the Hon. Mark C. Dillon for 23 years. Early in her career, she served as a law clerk at the Westchester County Family Court and as an Assistant County Attorney for the Westchester County Attorney's Office. She also served for over 20 years as Village Justice / Acting Village Justice for the Village of Buchanan, New York.
New York
US District Court, Southern District of New York
United States Supreme Court
Pace Law School, JD
College of Mount Saint Vincent, BA
Associate Ashley Pona, Esq., previously worked at the NYC Administration for Child Services where she handled child abuse and neglect cases. Ashley served in the United States Air Force prior to attending law school at Seton Hall.
New York
New Jersey
US District Court, Southern District of New York
US District Court, Eastern District of New York
Seton Hall, JD
Endicott College, BS