Michael S. Lamonsoff
His email of record is not his — the register lists shaskel@msllegal.com, a colleague's address, against his name. His firm's only rideshare content is a blog post whose newest data is from 2016 and which still asks whether the mayor will meet a 2024 target. We date it on the card rather than presenting it as current.
The bar record
We read Michael S. Lamonsoff in the New York State Unified Court System’s Attorney Detail Report. Only the shaded green row is generated by the court; the rows marked attorney-supplied were filed by him.
New York vouches for one line of this. The court system’s own disclaimer states that the Detail Report contains information provided by the attorney, except registration status, which is generated from the Office of Court Administration’s database. It further states that an attorney’s good standing and any information regarding disciplinary actions must be confirmed with the appropriate Appellate Division Department. So “currently registered” is the court’s own fact. “No record of discipline” is displayed by the court system but comes with an instruction to verify it elsewhere — and we haven’t. That is why the discipline figure above is a dash and not a tick.
And it tells you which office to ask. Michael S. Lamonsoff was admitted through the 1st Department, so that is the department a reader would need to write to. Of the twenty-one lawyers on our New York pages, fifteen were admitted through the Second and six through the First. No other register we use sends you somewhere else to finish the check — and none of the others tells you where.
What the record shows
The email on his OCA record is shaskel@msllegal.com — a different person’s address at his firm. That field is attorney-supplied, and there is nothing improper about it, but it means the register’s contact route for him is not him.Verified
The firm’s rideshare post carries collision counts for 2014, 2015 and 2016 and asks whether the mayor is still committed to a target set for 2024. It is a decade old. We tag it by year rather than letting it read as current, and we reprint none of its figures — they are attributed to a newspaper report we have not read.Verified
He was admitted through the First Department, one of six of our twenty-one New York listings.Verified
What the firm says
He says he founded the firm in 1994 in a windowless office as its only employee, and that it is now one of the largest personal injury firms in New York.Reported
He says he holds a B.A. from the University of Arizona, dual master’s degrees from Columbia University and a law degree from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and worked as a construction worker, bouncer, farm hand, bartender and garbageman to pay for his education.Reported
He says he has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and named to Super Lawyers six times, and is a member of the Million Dollar and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forums. We print no recovery figures.Reported
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What we haven’t checked
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