Nassau County Bar Association's WE CARE Fund

Named a New York Metro area Super Lawyer for the last three years, Steven Schlesinger serves as managing partner of Jaspan Schlesinger, LLP. Active in his professional community, Steven Schlesinger belongs to the Nassau County Bar Association, which gives back to the community through the WE CARE Fund. 

The charitable arm of the Nassau County Bar Association, the WE CARE Fund collects funds from attorneys and judges for distribution through grants that benefit seniors and youth as well as others in need. The WE CARE Fund has distributed over $3 million to more than 100 charitable causes, including the Education and Assistance Corporation, the Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Nassau County Girl Scouts, Nassau County Family Court Emergency Fund, and the Long Island Council of Churches. 

The We Care program also hosts several annual events, including the Childrens’ Holiday Festival and a Thanksgiving Luncheon for local seniors, as well as the WE CARE Golf and Tennis Classic, the program’s main fundraising event. The success of the WE CARE Fund has made it a model for bar groups looking to institute similar programs throughout the country.

Super Lawyers Recognizes the Work of Outstanding Attorneys

An accomplished attorney with Jaspan Schlesinger, LLP, in Garden City, New York, Steven Schlesinger leads the firm’s Litigation Practice Group and Appellate Practice Group. Over the course of his career, Steven Schlesinger has received a number of accolades for his work. He was named to the Top New York Super Lawyers list for eight consecutive years.

Operated by Thomson Reuters, Super Lawyers is a rating program that recognizes the work of outstanding attorneys in over 70 practice areas. Each year, candidates for the Super Lawyer distinction are nominated by attorney peers and the candidate pool is finalized after research by the Super Lawyers staff. To maintain the integrity of the nomination process, Super Lawyers prohibits attorneys from campaigning for the award and tracks where nominations come from. 

After the candidate pool is established, each nominee is evaluated in terms of peer recognition and professional achievement. Super Lawyers considers the nominees’ verdict history, experience, scholarly work, pro bono activities, honors and awards, and other outstanding achievements when making its selections for the annual awards. The final steps in the selection process include peer evaluations and a vetting procedure that ensures each prospective award winner is in good standing and has never faced disciplinary or criminal proceedings. 

When the annual Super Lawyers list is finalized, it is published in state and regional issues of Super Lawyers magazine as well as other magazines and newspapers. No more than 5 percent of all lawyers in each state receive the annual award. To find a listing of previous Super Lawyers, visit www.superlawyers.com.

The American Bar Association's Rule of Law Initiative

A graduate of the Hofstra University School of Law in New York, Steven Schlesinger is a partner of Jaspan Schlesinger LLP. A Super Lawyer in the area of business litigation, Steven Schlesinger has served as chairman of the Nassau County Bar Association’s Professional Ethics Committee in New York and is currently a member of the American Bar Association’s Litigation Committee.

A Better Business Bureau accredited entity, the American Bar Association is a professional organization for those in the legal profession. Founded in 1878, the organization maintains a membership base of over 400,000 lawyers, law students, and others that work in the field of law. One of the association's primary goals is to elevate the legal profession in America, which it accomplishes through programs like the Rule of Law Initiative.

Established in 2007, the Rule of Law Initiative is an international effort that works to support the legal profession while also implementing economic opportunity and human dignity programs. The initiative, which also engages in legal research, has a footprint in over 100 countries with over 500 professional staff members. For additional information on the program, visit www.americanbar.org.

Top 100 New York Super Lawyers - Super Lawyer Magazine

As an attorney with Jaspan Schlesinger, LLP, in Garden City, New York, Steven Schlesinger serves as the chief executive officer and oversees the firm's practice and litigation procedures. Steven Schlesinger has been a practicing attorney for over four decades, being named to the Top 100 New York Super Lawyers List eight years in a row.

The Super Lawyers program includes Super Lawyer Magazine, which is published in both print and digital formats and features articles written by and about top-rated attorneys on a variety of legal issues. The magazine also provides ratings for the attorneys that are in the top 100 in specific regions based on the specific type of practice the attorneys engage in. Super Lawyers rates attorneys in 70 specific areas of legal practice.

Super Lawyer Magazine also includes listings of some of the top attorneys in each state along with highly-rated attorneys in various types of practices to help those in the public find the best legal assistance possible. The magazine app can be downloaded free from the iTunes App Store or from the Android Market on Google Play.

The Work of Super Lawyers and the Top 100 List

 

Steven Schlesinger is an attorney who studied at Hofstra University School of Law in New York to earn his juris doctor before starting his career with Jaspan Schlesinger, LLP. Steven Schlesinger graduated in the top 10 percent of his class and was named a “Top 100 New York Super Lawyer” in 2014, 2015, and 2016 in the business litigation category serving the New York metro area, which includes parts of New Jersey.

Super Lawyers is an organization that rates the performance of attorneys from over 70 practice areas, creating lists of the top-performing legal professionals. The lists, including the “Top 100s,” are decided based on a 12-indicator system that focuses on the core categories of peer recognition and professional achievement.

The group carries out independent research on each attorney it ranks, with the goal of creating a credible and objective list of the best attorneys in each practice area in each state. The lists are limited to attorneys who can be hired and retained by the general public, and achieving a ranking on a “Top 100” list is considered an honor and recognition of the attorney’s talents.