30 Years Experience as a Trial Attorney
Herbert Kellner has litigated thousands of trial cases. A well respected seasoned Trial Attorney who has throughout his career litigated thousands of serious personal injury/accident cases, Federal Social Security Disability cases, NYS Police Retirement Disability cases, Tax litigation, Commercial trial litigation cases, Custody trials, Support trials, Paternity trials, Termination of Parental Rights trials, Homicides, complex serious felony trials and pre-trial hearings, Family Court neglect/abuse cases, landlord/tenant, all phases of complex civil litigation and practice and appeals. Real estate, wills and estates, Vehicle and Traffic violations, summonses, and trials. Former Law Guardian/Attorney for Children certified and appointed by the NYS Appellate Division by the Hon. Presiding Justice Gail Prudenti to represent children in legal court cases. Registered Child Mentor, Suffolk County Probation Dept. Former certified Polygraph Examiner. Former City of New York Administrative Law Judge.
Chief Counsel to The Suffolk County Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals and member of the Board of Directors. Chief counsel to the Long Island Golf Course Mechanics Association. Three time Committee Co-Chair of the Suffolk County Bar Association Plaintiff’s Personal Injury-Insurance Committee; guest lecturer and conducted CLE Seminars at the Bar Association; Guest lecturer for the New York Prosecutor’s Training Institute on Cruelty To Animals. Former Trustee of the Suffolk County Bar Association, Academy of Law.
Licensed and admitted to practice law in all New York State Courts, Eastern, Southern, and D.C. Federal District Courts, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, United States Court of Federal Claims, United States Federal Military Court of Appeals, and admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court.
Bar Admissions
New York, Appellate Division Second Department 1987
United States District Court Eastern District of New York
United States District Court Southern District of New York
D.C. Federal District Courts
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
United States Court of Federal Claims
United States Federal Military Court of Appeals
Admitted to argue before the United States Supreme Court
Education
Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, Huntington, N.Y., Juris Doctor Degree, May 1986
Touro Law Journal, Staff Editor/Writer
New York Law School, New York, N.Y., 1985, credits.
St. John’s University School of Law, Jamaica, Queens, 1984, credits.
Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y., Atrium Baccalaurei, Dual Degree, 1977.
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., credits 1976.
New York School of Lie Detection, New York, N.Y., Polygraph Advanced Field Certification, 1979; Instructor 1986-1989, Certified Polygraph Examiner.
State University of New York at Farmingdale, Famingdale, N.Y., Forensic Hypnosis Certification, 1981.
National College of District Attorneys, Prosecutors Course, 1986.
Contact
questions@experiencedlaw.com
(631) 360-2175