Commercial Litigation Lawyers - Garden City, Long Island, NY

Erica B. Garay

Prior to joining Meyer, Suozzi, Ms. Garay was first an associate, and then a partner, of the firm of Rivkin Radler LLP.  She was previously associated with Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, and served as an Assistant Corporation Counsel in the General Litigation Division of the New York City Law Department.  She also worked on two of the largest contract cases ever to go to trial in New York City and Seattle, both of which resulted in multi-million dollar verdicts in favor of her clients.

Ms. Garay has served as the co-director of the American Bar Association’s Section of Litigation (Division III) and as co-chair of its Consumer and Personal Rights Litigation Committee. She also has served as editor of Equal Access, the ABA’s newsletter for the Equal Opportunity in the Law Committee.  She is also a member of the New York State Bar Association and its Dispute Resolution Section and the Federal Commercial Litigation Sections.  She is also on the panel of neutral arbitrators for the American Arbitration Association, Commercial Panel and the U.S. District Court, S.D.N.Y.  Ms. Garay was appointed to the Roster of Mediators of Suffolk, Nassau and New York Counties, Supreme Court Commercial Division.  Ms. Garay has lectured at the Practicing Law Institute (NYC) on Enforcing Confidentiality and Non-Compete Agreements; presented at the New York Judicial Institute to the State’s Commercial Judges on Trade Secret and Restrictive Covenant Litigation; at the Nassau and Suffolk Academies of Law on Shareholder Dissolutions and Trade Secrets in the Electronic Age; and at the Nassau County Bar Association on Arbitration.

Community Involvement

In 2009, Ms. Garay was appointed as a Trustee of the Long Island Children’s Museum and serves on the Commerce and Industry Council of North Shore/LIJ Health System.  Ms. Garay was the founding President of the Long Island Women’s Agenda from 1999 until 2002, and was a Board Member. She was Vice President for Membership of the Long Island Center for Business and Professional Women, and President of the Women Economic Developers of Long Island.  Ms. Garay has served on many community boards and organizations including the Huntington Township Chamber of Commerce; Long Island Association Economic Development Committee; Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Center for Family Resources; Corporate Advisory Board of the Girl Scouts of Nassau County; the Council of Overseers of C.W. Post-Long Island University and of the Executive Board of Long Island University’s College of Management, where she has been an adjunct professor at the graduate school; and of the Half Hollow Hills Business-School Partnership Advisory Board.