THE SHANKER LAW FIRM, P.C.

The Shanker Law Firm, P.C. is counsel to and the trusted advisor for the transportation industry in New York City. We represent some of the biggest and best transportation entities and car services in New York City along with many other transportation-related business and institutions. The firm is general counsel to a number of large and mid-sized Transportation Service Providers. No other law firm in New York City is as steeped as us in the legal and operational issues that affect the Transportation industry. Our practice in the insurance and transportation industry now spans the whole gamut from employment law, insurance defense, corporate formation, asset and purchase agreements, trademark protection, contracts, Workers Compensation defense, Unemployment Defense, Personal Injury defense, risk management, government regulation/compliance, and commercial litigation.

Managing Partner

New York Independent Livery Driver Benefit Fund

I was appointed to be the General Counsel for the New York Independent Livery Driver Benefit Fund. On July 26, 2008, New York Governor David Paterson signed legislation that created the Livery Driver Benefit Fund. The Fund provides Workers' Compensation benefits for serious injuries and crimes committed against drivers dispatched by qualifying independent livery bases. The Livery Fund Law has helped solve a workers’ compensation problem that has spanned three decades. For many years, the livery industry has posed a dilemma for the workers’ compensation system, due to many gray areas associated with the law regarding the livery industry. The enactment of the "Livery Fund Law" allowed livery bases in New York City, Westchester and Nassau Counties, to qualify as “independent” bases if they met certain criteria typically used by the courts to determine independent contractor status. Specifically, the statute stated that independent bases would pay into the Fund which would purchase special coverage that would provide workers’ compensation benefits for the most serious injuries, including those resulting from crimes and deaths.

General Counsel

The Livery Round Table

The The Livery Round Table ("LRT")  is a trade organization continually working to benefit both the livery industry and passengers alike. Since 2010, The Livery Round Table has worked with livery associations and businesses to unify, advocate on behalf of, and streamline the livery industry in New York. Our goal is to secure the long-term sustainability of the industry. We pursue this goal through: offering a robust education and training program for livery drivers; working with regulatory/governmental agencies and other associations to advance policies that serve the interests of both livery passengers and the riding public; and to meet the needs and concerns of our members. Since its inception in 2010, the LRT has sought to improve the passenger experience by advancing the livery industry’s business practices and services. We work with drivers and bases to develop better customer service for all riders

Executive Director/GeneralCounsel

Stable Insurance

Redesigning Insurance for For-Hire Vehicle Drivers, Rideshare Operators, and Fleets

Chief Legal Officer & Head of Partnership Development

McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP

As the head of MDM&C's Transportation Practice Group, I serviced the ground transportation industry and its related businesses. We counsel companies of all sizes on a broad range of transportation matters, including regulatory compliance, strategic planning, administrative law, and public policy. We actively work with transportation entities that seek our assistance in improving their transportation services, re-engineering their technological systems and refining their corporate structure. Our attorneys combine a multidisciplinary approach that combines our regulatory knowledge and solid grasp of the transportation industry's unique operations and issues all with the goal of solving complex legal problems and helping clients achieve their business goals. Our overarching objective is to ensure that our clients operate not only effectively and efficiently, but legally and safely.

Counsel to the Firm

New York City Law Department

Represent and defend the City of New York in all matters pertaining to workers' compensation claims filed by employees of the City of New York.

Assistant Corporation Counsel

Connecticut Appellate Court

drafting appellate decisions for review by Associate Justice of Appellate Court

Judicial Law Clerk Volunteer

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As a boutique law firm, we are very close to our clients and as such, we can implement decisions on how best to serve them in a quick and cost-effective manner. We devise solutions to deliver the best service possible to our clients and can adjust more easily to our client’s changing needs. If and when there is a legal problem facing our clients, our thorough knowledge of their business and the industry they work in provides us with the edge to provide effective analysis and legal advice. Our Outside General Counsel Services is unique in the legal industry and we enjoy being proactive to prevent problems rather than reactive to problems that have already arisen. 

Practice Areas: insurance litigation, corporate counsel, transportation business law and transactions,  employment law, intellectual property, trademark law, workers' compensation law, personal injury/liability defense.
Specialties: Representing all aspects of the For-Hire Vehicle industry in New York City

Information not intended to provide legal advice. Disclaimer at www.shankerlawfirm.com/disclaimer/

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