Coffey Modica Announces New Hires at Several New York Offices – Legal Reader

“These three gifted attorneys will little question contribute to Coffey Modica’s dynamic and client-driven crew by bringing their distinctive experiences and authorized insights to their new positions,” mentioned New York Managing Associate Patricia Mooney.

TARRYTOWN, NY – Coffey Modica LLP, a number one protection litigation agency representing companies and insurance coverage firms in legal responsibility claims, extra property and casualty, medical malpractice, and different skilled industries, is happy to announce three new additions to their New York crew. Associate Raychel Camilleri will apply out of the agency’s Tarrytown workplace whereas Josue Dorleus and Nicholas MacInnis will be a part of the Manhattan workplace as Counsel.

“Since our agency’s inception in 2021, I’ve had the privilege of seeing the distinctive improvement and growth of Coffey Modica’s authorized groups and the diversification of authorized expertise and information from our practitioners,” mentioned New York Managing Associate Patricia Mooney, who oversees Coffey Modica’s 4 places of work throughout the State. “These three gifted attorneys will little question contribute to Coffey Modica’s dynamic and client-driven crew by bringing their distinctive experiences and authorized insights to their new positions.”

Camilleri is a seasoned trial lawyer with over a decade of expertise representing actual property builders, homeowners, common contractors, design professionals, and insurers. She focuses her apply on industrial litigation, development regulation, and common legal responsibility protection, together with protection of advanced development and New York Labor Regulation claims, merchandise legal responsibility, premises legal responsibility, and transportation issues. She has tried greater than two dozen jury trials to verdict in courts throughout New York Metropolis, the Southern and Japanese Districts of New York, and all through Westchester, Orange, Ulster, and Nassau Counties. She additionally performed a number of bench trials, arbitrations earlier than the American Arbitration Affiliation, and mediations with distributors and trade stakeholders. 

“Coffey Modica just isn’t solely one of many quickest rising, however can be probably the most revolutionary protection litigation regulation corporations, serving to to create a brand new commonplace within the authorized trade by using superior expertise and strategies that allow attorneys to focus extra on training than administrative duties,” mentioned Camilleri. “I’m assured that the work this dynamic crew and I are doing will ship high quality outcomes to our purchasers.” 

Earlier than becoming a member of Coffey Modica, Camilleri practiced at outstanding actual property and civil litigation regulation corporations in New York Metropolis. She additionally served as counsel to main insurers, defending a broad vary of bodily damage and protection instances. She earned her J.D. at Western New England College College of Regulation after acquiring her B.A. from Bucknell College. 

Coffey Modica additionally added two attorneys to their Manhattan workplace. Josue Dorleus and Nicholas MacInnis will each serve within the function of Counsel on the agency’s new Wall Road workplace, which just lately doubled their Manhattan presence by taking a full ground within the Bankers Belief Constructing. 

Dorleus works throughout the agency’s common legal responsibility and development litigation apply teams. He honed his courtroom and trial preparation expertise whereas prosecuting abuse and negligence instances on behalf of the New York Metropolis Administration for Kids’s Companies (ACS) earlier than taking up roles at a number of outstanding regulation corporations in each New York and Texas, the place he represented a variety of purchasers, together with nationwide banks, fintech, and auto financing firms. Past his years as a litigator, Dorleus additionally beforehand served as Assistant Normal Counsel to an actual property funding and property administration group.  He’s a graduate of Maurice A. Deane College of Regulation at Hofstra College.

MacInnis focuses his apply on development accident, labor regulation, and high-exposure premises legal responsibility, representing homeowners, common contractors, and different company defendants. Admitted to apply in each New York and Massachusetts, MacInnis brings vital appellate expertise, having drafted and argued appeals earlier than a number of departments of New York State Appellate Division and serving as an Appellate Panel Legal professional for the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Companies. He earned his J.D. from Suffolk Regulation College after attending Bates School for his bachelor’s diploma.

About Coffey Modica

Based in 2021, Coffey Modica is among the quickest rising regulation corporations within the nation with places of work in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Georgia, and Florida. Coffey Modica LLP represents defendants in high-profile, excessive publicity issues throughout many disciplines and industries across the nation. Recognized for being aggressive trial attorneys and litigators, Coffey Modica resolves issues on behalf of its purchasers with essentially the most cost-effective resolutions aligned with their short- and long-term enterprise targets and tradition.