KENNETH L. GARTNER
klgartner@lgdcllp.com

Before founding the firm in 2006, former Judge Kenneth L. Gartner had over 25 years experience litigating in state and federal trial and appellate courts, and before arbitral and administrative tribunals, as well as presiding as a New York State civil and criminal trial judge. 

Judge Gartner’s areas of expertise include appellate practice; Lanham Act, real property-related, and other complex civil litigation; professional responsibility; criminal motions and appeals; and sports-related litigation.  He has been retained as special appellate and trial counsel.  He represents judges, lawyers and law firms in criminal, civil, and disciplinary matters, and serves as an expert witness on legal ethics issues.

In his seven years on the bench, Judge Gartner was the most published judge in the history of the New York State District Court, with over 150 published decisions.  The decisions can be found by searching “Opinionby(Gartner)” in the combined Westlaw NY and NYLJ libraries.  His reported decisions as counsel can be found by searching “Kenneth +2 Gartner” in the NY-CS-ALL library.

Judge Gartner is a special professor of legal ethics at Hofstra Law School.  He is the past Chairman of the New York State Bar Association Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct, and the Nassau County Bar Association Professional Ethics Committee, on both of which he continues to serve, as well as a member of the New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics.  Judge Gartner is a member of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, and a past member of the Professional Responsibility Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.  A member of the Professional Responsibility Practice Group of the Federalist Society for the Study of Law and Public Policy, Judge Gartner is a lecturer on civil and criminal practice, as well as ethics, for both the New York State Bar Association and the Nassau Academy of Law.

Judge Gartner received his law degree, cum laude, from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law, graduating near the top of his class, and serving as Managing Editor of the Law Review. Prior to his election as a judge, he practiced with Breed, Abbott & Morgan, then one of New York City’s major firms, and was for over ten years a partner in the firm of Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C.  Judge Gartner is admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia.

Judge Gartner is also:

(1) an Adjunct Professor of law at the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, Touro College, and a Special Professor of legal ethics at Hofstra Law School;

(2) chairman of the national team of judges, law professors, and attorneys who annually choose America’s best law school appellate brief for Scribes, the American Association of Legal Writers;

(3) the past Chairman of the New York State Bar Association Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct, and the Nassau County Bar Association Professional Ethics Committee, on both of which he continues to serve, as well as a member of the New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics; and

(4) a lecturer on civil and criminal practice, as well as ethics, for both the New York State Bar Association and the Nassau Academy of Law.

Judge Gartner’s broad experience in litigation, as an attorney and as a former Nassau County civil and criminal trial judge, enables him to provide advice and counsel in many areas of the law.

SELECTED JUDICIAL PUBLICATIONS: Ressa Family LLC v. Dorfman, 193 Misc.2d 315, 749 N.Y.S.2d 387 (2002); Arnold v. Lyons, 2003 WL 2004246 (2003);  Direct Merchants Credit Card Bank v. Greenpoint Bank, 2003 WL 2004163 (2003); Chowdhury v. Diamond Finance Company Inc., 2002 WL 31925595 (2002);  Atlantis Medical, P.C. v.Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, 2002 WL 523102 (2002); Liberty Queens Medical, P.C. v. Tri-State Consumer Insurance, 188 Misc.2d 835, 729 N.Y.S.2d 882 (2001); Comprehensive Mental  Assessment & Medical Care v. Merchants  & Businessmen’s Mutual Ins. Co., 196 Misc.2d 134, 762 N.Y.S.2d 794 (2003); Yellow Book of New York LP v. DiMilia, 188 Misc.2d 489, 729 N.Y.S.2d 286 (2001); Yellow Book of New York, LP v. Platt, 2003 WL 1389103 (2003); People v. Serrano, 5 Misc.3d 509, 785 N.Y.S.2d 281 (2004);  People v. Isaac, 2004 WL 1261464 (2004); People v. Isaac, 2004 WL 1389219 (2004); People v. Roopnarine, 11 Misc.3d 416, 809 N.Y.S.2d 862 (2006); People v. Singh, 12 Misc.3d 952, 816 N.Y.S.2d 669 (2006); People v. Hauben, 2006 WL 1724042 (2006). REPRESENTATIVE NON-JUDICIAL PUBLICATIONS: “Post-Foreclosure Eviction of Post-Notice of Pendency Tenants,” N.Y. Law Journal, April 12, 2000, at 5, col. 2;  “The Lanham Act’s ‘Commerce’ Requirement,”  N.Y. Law Journal, February 29, 2000, at 1, col. 1.