Roy W. Breitenbach
111 Great Neck Road
Suite 503
Great Neck, NY 11021

Phone 516-393-2272
Fax 516-466-5964
rbreitenbach@gwtlaw.com
  Practice Groups
Appellate Litigation
Environmental
Litigation & Arbitration
Personal Services and Estate Planning

Year Joined
1994

Education
St. John's University School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1991), Editor and Member - St. John's Law Review

St. John's University (B.A., summa cum laude, 1988)

Bar Admission(s)
New York, 1992
Connecticut, 2008

Court Admission(s)
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
United States District Court - Southern, Eastern, Northern, and Western Districts of New York
New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Connecticut Supreme Court

Bar Affiliation(s)
New York State Bar Association
Nassau County Bar Association
American Bar Association

Biography
Roy W. Breitenbach is a Partner/Director of Garfunkel, Wild & Travis, P.C., which he joined in 1994. He is a member of the firm’s Litigation and Arbitration Practice Group, which represents clients involved in disputes before courts, administrative and regulatory agencies, and alternative dispute resolution panels. He is also a member of the firm's Environmental Practice Group, which provides advice in all areas of environmental law and regulatory compliance, as well as environmental real estate matters.

Mr. Breitenbach’s practice includes the representation of for-profit and not-for-profit entities involved in commercial, financial, real property, or environmental disputes, physicians and other professionals involved in professional practice governance and breakup disputes, employers and public accommodations in employment or disability discrimination disputes, and health care providers in reimbursement disputes with third-party payors, including the Medicare and Medicaid program.


Publications

Physician Restrictive Covenants Enforced Somewhat Reluctantly, CT Law Tribune, May 2007

Restrictive Covenants in Dental Practice Employment Agreements, Queens County Dental Society Bulletin, March/April 2007

The Basics of Restrictive Covenants, Journal of the American College of Radiology (Volume 3, Number 10) October 2006

GWT Partners quoted on special liability risks associated with obese patients Healthcare Risk Management, May 2006

Presentations

Trial Techniques for Effective Litigation, National Business Institute Seminar (June 24, 2008) Melville, NY

Title Law in New York, National Business Institute Seminar (September 17, 2007) Plainview, NY


E-Discovery - Applying the New FRCP Changes
, National Business Institute Seminar (July 24, 2007) Plainview, NY

How to Get Your Expert Testimony Admitted into Evidence, National Business Institute (June 8, 2007) Garden City, NY

The Art of the Settlement National Business Institute (April 24, 2007)

Non-Competes: Enforceable or Not?, Physicians and Physician Organizations Law Institute (February 5-6, 2007) Las Vegas, NV

Conducting Depositions: Practical Strategies that Win Cases, (January 31, 2007) Plainview, NY

Internet Strategies for Legal Professionals (August 18, 2006)
 
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