Steven Fingerhut

For more than twelve years, my practice has been devoted exclusively to representing employees — never employers. That focus matters. Employment law rewards depth: the difference between a $200,000 case and a $2 million case is rarely the facts. It is almost always the strategy.

I provide a holistic approach to counseling, strategizing, and litigating each case — weighing the strength of competing evidence, the financial health of the defendant, the reputational exposure on both sides, the consequences of public litigation, the pressure points specific to the employer, the structure and limits of the relevant insurance coverage, and the right moment to push settlement at each phase of the case. Those variables shift as litigation moves through discovery, dispositive motions, and trial preparation. Reading them accurately — and adjusting in real time — is what experience buys you.

I bring that experience to every matter: jury verdicts in state and federal court, contested discovery motions, summary judgment battles, and appellate practice. I know the judges and the courthouses across the five boroughs, and in the federal district courts at Lower Manhattan, White Plains, Brooklyn, and Central Islip. I have working relationships with the mediators most respected in this field.

The representation I offer is aggressive where aggression serves the client and measured where it does not. Drawing that line requires experience built from years of trying cases — not from delegating them.

Fingerhut Law is a boutique firm by design. As the founding attorney, I am the lawyer who answers your questions, develops your strategy, takes your depositions, and stands up in court for you. I am not running a business that practices law on the side. I am practicing law — for a small number of clients at a time — the way a senior litigator should.