Attorney at Kasen Law Firm

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LAWRENCE M. KASEN (Retired)

PARTNER

Email Contact@kasenlawfirm.com
Phone +1-718-337-8012

BIOGRAPHY
Mr. Kasen provide a full spectrum of legal services in the field of family and business-related immigration law. Unlike most other immigration law practitioners, Mr. Kasen is able to complement the services rendered to my clients with the widespread legal experience that Mr. Kasen have attained over the years, which has proven invaluable to my clients particularly when they are in need of ancillary services in the areas of business, corporate, family and real estate law to further their immigration law applications with the USCIS and U.S. consular offices.
Mr. Kasen currently practices in the areas of Immigration, Business, Corporate, Family and Real Estate Law, although a substantial concentration of his practice is devoted to immigration law and immigration litigation. Mr. Kasen has been instrumental in assisting individuals and businesses with their applications for immigrant and nonimmigrant visas and in defending individuals in immigration court and federal court when confronted with U.S. government detention and removal proceedings.
PRACTICE AREAS
EDUCATION & BAR ADMISSION

University of New Mexico School of Law

Howard University School of Law, 1979

Rutgers University, 1976

Admitted to South Carolina

Admitted to New York

U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit

Fang Liu, Esq.

PARTNER

Email Contact@kasenlawfirm.com
Phone +1-718-337-8012

BIOGRAPHY

As a twelve (12) year old child emigrating to the U.S. from China with my parents and three (3) younger siblings, I saw firsthand the substantial difficulties immigrants face when seeking to migrate through the ever complex and challenging U.S. immigration system.  Similar to my family, many of these new entrants do not speak any English when arriving in the U.S. and are foreign to the American culture and way of life in the United States.   These challenges left an enduring mark on my life and helped shape my career goal to make the immigration process more understandable and easier to navigate for aliens arriving at our shorelines. 

Shortly after graduating from St. Joseph College in 2009, I began working as a paralegal for The Kasen Law Firm, PLLC, a full-service immigration and criminal law firm, and quickly advanced to the position of office manager, supervising more than twenty (20) support staff, inclusive of paralegals, bookkeepers and other support staff.  Never losing sight of my ultimate goal of assisting immigrants through the ever-changing immigration process, in 2015 I began pursuing my dream of becoming an attorney when I was admitted to the Touro College Fuchsberg Law Center as a first-year law student.  During this time, I continued to work full-time as an office manager at The Kasen Law Firm, PLLC and delved deeper into the subject areas of immigration law and criminal law, finally securing my law degree in 2019 and my admission to the New York State Bar in February of 2020.  Realizing the value of my service to the law firm and dedication to the pursuit of the law and our immigrant clients, I was made a member of The Kasen Law Firm, PLLC in February of 2020.

Now equipped with the requisite legal tools, I stand ready, willing and able to provide our clients with the best legal services in the fields of immigration law and criminal law.

PRACTICE AREAS
EDUCATION & BAR ADMISSION

BA, St. Joseph College in 2009

Master of Law, Touro College Fuchsberg Law Center

Admitted to the New York Bar since 2020

Admitted to the New Jersey Bar since 2020

Aleksander B. Milch

Attorney

Email Contact@kasenlawfirm.com
Phone +1-718-337-8012

BIOGRAPHY
Aleksander earned his B.A. degree in Linguistics at Harvard University in 1992 and his J.D. at the Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University in 1997. He has been an attorney since February 1998, when he was admitted to the State of New York.
Currently, Aleksander is admitted to practice law in the following courts:  U.S. Supreme Court (2014); U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit (2005); U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit (2005); U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit (2005); U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit (2005); Western District of New York (2004); Northern District of New York (2004); Southern District of New York (2000); and the Eastern District of New York (1999).
Alecksander is proficient in Russian and French.  He has a basic, working knowledge of Spanish.
PRACTICE AREAS
EDUCATION & BAR ADMISSION

Been an attorney since February 1998

Admitted to the Bar since 1998

J.D. at the Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University in 1997

B.A. degree in Linguistics at Harvard College in 1992

PRATICE AREAS

U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit

Practice law 2014

U.S. Court of Appeals First Circuit  2005

Southern District of New York

Practice law 2000

The Eastern District of New York 

Practice law 1999s

Chenchen Yan, Esq.

Associate

Email Contact@kasenlawfirm.com
Phone +1-718-337-8012

BIOGRAPHY

Chenchen Yan graduated from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and received two bachelor’s degrees in Law and Literature majoring in Business English. She earned her LL.M. degree from Fordham University School of Law majoring in Bank, Corporate, and Finance Law. Currently, she is admitted to practice law before the State of New York.

While Ms. Yan was in China, she completed an internship with Faurecia (Shanghai) Management Co., Ltd. as an assistant to Legal Counsel, which allowed her to gain experience in reviewing contracts and performing legal research. Before passing the New York bar examination, she worked at The Kasen Law Firm, PLLC as a paralegal providing support to the work of our attorneys in the areas of workers’ compensation, personal injury, criminal law, immigration law, civil litigation, divorce, and employment law.

Ms. Yan’s legal practice centers primarily on immigration law, civil practice, and real estate law. Her immigration work includes family-based petitions, removal defense, special immigrant juvenile status, and temporary protected status applications. Her civil practice experience includes landlord/tenant matters; contract review; and pre-litigation civil negotiation. The focus of her real estate experience is residential closings. Ms. Yan has almost eight years of experience working at The Kasen Law Firm, PLLC including as an intern, a paralegal, and now, an attorney. Ms. Yan is fluent in the Mandarin dialect of Chinese and English.

PRACTICE AREAS
EDUCATION & BAR ADMISSION

BA, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in 2011

LL.M, Law School of Fordham University in 2012

Admitted to the New York Bar since 2020

Robert J. Adinolfi

Attorney

Email Contact@kasenlawfirm.com
Phone +1-718-337-8012

BIOGRAPHY
Robert handles Immigration, Criminal Defense, Divorces, Business Disputes and landlord tenant cases. Robert has appeared in Immigration Courts throughout the United States, and has successfully represented many immigrants at the individual and bond hearings.  Robert has a strong track record of obtaining grants of asylum, and has substantial experience in adjustment applications and BIA and Federal Appeals and litigation. Robert is a member of the New York Bar, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Ninth Circuits and United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and the Eastern District of Michigan.

Robert graduated from the City University of New York, College of Staten Island in 1994 with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics. Prior to law school he worked as a paralegal in various law firms and for the well-known investment brokerage house Smith Barney. In 1999, he graduated from the Michigan State University Detroit College of Law. While in law school he was employed as a researcher for a non-profit organization that represents Charter Schools in Michigan called the Michigan Association of Public School Academies (“MAPSA”) and also served in a clinic representing indigent persons in civil and criminal cases. During his last semester in law school, Robert was a student law clerk for the Honorable Richard Fred Suhrheinrich, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Robert was admitted to the New York State Bar in 2002 and went into private practice, specializing in immigration, criminal defense, business and real estate disputes. In 2003, he and his firm Louis & Adinolfi, LLC served as Special Counsel to the Consul General of Pakistan during the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System. At that time, certain nonimmigrant alien visitors from certain countries (Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Syria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and North Korea) were required to register with the former Immigration and Naturalization Service under National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS), also known as Special Registration. Robert and his firm provided onsite advise to Pakistani nationals in connection with the Special Registration.

PRACTICE AREAS
EDUCATION & BAR ADMISSION
Admitted to New York State Bar Association
Member of American Immigration Lawyer Association
Member of the American Bar Association

Vasiliki D. Koutsogiannis, Esq.

Associate

Email Contact@kasenlawfirm.com
Phone +1-718-337-8012

BIOGRAPHY

Vasiliki Koutsogiannis (“Vicki”) represents clients in criminal cases, civil litigation, landlord-tenant disputes, divorce, and domestic actions. She takes pride in her commitment to her clients, professionalism, and exceptional advocacy.

Vicki graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2014. During her tenure in law school, she was a member of the Pro Bono Board, and also received a CALI Award for Excellence in the subject of Legal and Equitable Remedies. Vicki graduated from Stony Brook University in New York in 2010, where she obtained a Bachelor’s degree with honors in Political Science, cum laude.

Vicki is admitted to practice in New York, South Carolina, and Illinois. She is also admitted before the United States District Court for South Carolina, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the United States Court of Federal Claims.

During her legal career, Vicki has focused on representing individual clients and has succeeded in obtaining the best possible results in her cases. She has helped people accused of major crimes ranging from violent felonies to criminal conspiracy and financial crimes. She has represented clients in civil litigation, including personal injury, workers’ compensation, wrongful arrest, and commercial litigation. She also has appellate experience, having taken a family law appeal before the South Carolina Court of Appeals which resulted in a partial reversal, and established new rules in that state regarding special equity and alimony following divorce.  Vicki has also represented clients who suffered from adverse effects following influenza vaccines through the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. She has tried multiple jury trials and has obtained not-guilty verdicts. She also has successfully obtained favorable settlements on behalf of her clients.

Vicki’s parents are Greek immigrants who instilled in her the value of hard work and dedication. She can speak, read, and write fluently in Greek.

She is a member of the New York Bar Association, South Carolina Bar Association, National Trial Lawyers, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

PRACTICE AREAS
EDUCATION & BAR ADMISSION

BA Political Science, Stony Brook University in 2010

J.D., University of South Carolina in 2014

Admitted to the New York, South Carolina, Illinois

Louis H Klein

Attorney

Email Contact@kasenlawfirm.com
Phone +1-718-337-8012

BIOGRAPHY

Louis Henry Klein has extensive experience in assisting clients in a wide variety of immigration, real estate, criminal, and litigation matters. On a regular basis, he represents individuals before Immigration Courts in New York and throughout the country, as well as before the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS), fighting tenaciously to obtain immigration relief and legal status for his clients.

Mr. Klein is experienced handling individual merits hearings, appeals, bond hearings, motions to reopen proceedings, and motions to reconsider before the Board of Immigration Appeals and Federal Appellate Circuit Courts, providing clients an opportunity for immigration relief beyond their merits hearings or immigration interview. Mr. Klein’s wide ranging and extensive immigration law experience has allowed him to travel extensively throughout the United States in order to assist individuals, families, and workers with their immigration issues so that they can enjoy the legal benefits of living and working in the United States.

Mr. Klein is also experienced litigating complex personal injury, property damage, construction defect, and other civil law suits.  Mr. Klein has successfully forced insurance companies to pay for claims that they initially refused to honor, and to provide defense and indemnification to their policy holders.  Mr. Klein expertly handles mediations, arbitrations, trials and appeals for many types of civil lawsuits.

Additionally, Mr. Klein is well versed in both New York State and Connecticut criminal practice, and has successfully defended criminal cases throughout those jurisdictions.  Finally, Mr. Klein is experienced with both uncontested divorces, child support and custody issues.

Currently, Mr. Klein is admitted to practice law in the states of New York, and Connecticut.  He is also admitted in to practice in the United States District Court for the Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York, as well as the United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

PRACTICE AREAS
EDUCATION & BAR ADMISSION

Admitted to practice law in New York, Connecticut, and at the federal level since January 2000

J.D. at Brooklyn Law School in 1999 (Brooklyn Law Review, Executive Notes and Comments Editor; Dean’s List; Distinguished Scholar Award 1999)

Keith Sullivan

Attorney

Email Contact@kasenlawfirm.com
Phone +1-718-337-8012

BIOGRAPHY

Mr. Keith Sullivan has extensive experience handling all types of complex personal injury matters involving serious injuries.  He has dedicated his practice to representing individuals who have been wrongfully injured through the negligence of others, as well as individuals subject to criminal investigations. Prior to forming Sullivan & Galleshaw LLP, Mr. Sullivan was a litigation associate with the law firm of Wilson, Elser where he represented numerous insurance companies in defending various types of personal injury claims.

Mr. Sullivan is experienced in handling all personal injury and criminal defense matters. His practice areas include medical malpractice, motor vehicle accidents, construction accidents, work-related accidents, lead paint injuries, wrongful death, slip and fall, general liability, litigation and criminal defense matters in both New York State and Federal Courts.  In addition to working at his law practice, Mr. Sullivan is an Adjunct Professor at area law schools and has been invited to be a guest lecturer to numerous law schools, including Syracuse University, Hofstra, UPenn, Cardozo, St. John’s, Touro, Western New England, Emory University and Widener.

Mr. Sullivan also serves as the Deputy Commissioner for the New York State Athletic Commission, where he ensures the rules and regulations of the sport of boxing are complied with and upheld and assists in the functioning of the sport in NY.  He is also the author of a monthly newspaper column titled “Sullivan’s Court”, which serves as a user-friendly know your rights introduction to the law for readers. Mr. Sullivan is currently admitted to practice in the New York State Supreme Courts and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.  Mr. Sullivan has been granted ‘pro hac vice’ admission into several other state jurisdictions in order to handle legal matters that ensured the full protection of his clients’ rights.

PRACTICE AREAS
EDUCATION & BAR ADMISSION

Pace University School of Law, White Plains, New York, 1998, Juris Doctorate

Concordia College, Bronxville, New York, 1995, B.A. – History & Secondary Education

New York State and New Jersey, 1998

U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 2000

U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 2000

U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, 2010

James Galleshaw

Attorney

Email Contact@kasenlawfirm.com
Phone +1-718-337-8012

BIOGRAPHY
As a Senior Trial Attorney in the King’s County District Attorney’s Office, Mr. Galleshaw prosecuted hundreds of felony and misdemeanor cases in New York Supreme Court, New York City Criminal Court, and New York State Family Court.

Upon leaving the District Attorney’s Office, Mr. Galleshaw worked in the litigation department of one of the country’s most respected insurance defense firms, where he handled a wide range of complex litigation matters, including products liability, motor vehicle accidents, construction accidents, lead and asbestos poisoning, and general negligence claims.

Mr. Galleshaw’s practice focuses on all types of complex litigation matters, including all state and federal criminal defense matters, complex commercial litigation and high-value construction, and motor vehicle injury claims. He is currently admitted to practice in New York State, New Jersey State, and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

PRACTICE AREAS
EDUCATION & BAR ADMISSION

City University of New York School of Law, Flushing, New York, 1999

Juris Doctorate Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York, 1995

Admitted to New York State, 2000

Admitted to New Jersey State, 2000

U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 2005

U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 2005

Lingfei Xu ESQ.

Attorney/Legal Consultant

Email Contact@kasenlawfirm.com
Phone +1-718-337-8012

BIOGRAPHY

Graduated from Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, admitted in New York State from 2013. Specialize in immigration law, including asylum, all kinds of family-based immigration and employment-based immigration including L visa, EB5, matrimonial laws and others.

PRACTICE AREAS
EDUCATION & BAR ADMISSION

2006: Juris Master’s degree from Xiangtan University (China)

2020: Juris Doctor’s degree from Touro Law School (USA)

2010: Admitted to the Bar in China

2021: Admitted to the Bar in New York, USA

TAEGEUN KIM

ATTORNEY

Email Contact@kasenlawfirm.com
Phone +1-718-337-8012

BIOGRAPHY

Attorney Taegeun Kim graduated  Hongik University in Korea in 2015 with LL.B.

Graduated Cardozo School of Law in 2023 with J.D.

Took the 2023 July Bar and got admitted to NY Bar in January 2024.

I participated in the Uncontested Divorce Project during the 2022 Fall and helped the victim of domestic violence get divorced.

I interned at Hon. Esther Morgenstern’s Integrated Domestic Violence Court during the 2022 Summer.

Working at the Kasen Law firm, I am currently focusing on immigration law.

I speak Korean and English.

PRACTICE AREAS
EDUCATION & BAR ADMISSION

2015: Hongik University in Korea

2023: Cardozo School of Law 

Stephen Mullkoff, Esq

Attorney

Email Contact@kasenlawfirm.com
Phone +1-718-337-8012

BIOGRAPHY

Criminal defense is my only practice area.  100% of my practice is devoted to defending and fighting for the rights of my clients in criminal courts at the state and Federal levels.  I am licensed in the State of New York and Pennsylvania. 

Mr. Chou has also been admitted as attorney in Taiwan since 2015. He gained experience in reviewing contracts and performing legal research. Before passing the New York bar examination, he worked at The Kasen Law Firm, PLLC as a paralegal providing support to the work of our attorneys in the areas of criminal law, immigration law, IP law, and civil law etc. Mr. Chou has almost five years of experience working at The Kasen Law Firm, PLLC including as a paralegal, and now, an attorney. Mr. Chou is fluent in the Mandarin dialect of Chinese and English.

PRACTICE AREAS
EDUCATION & BAR ADMISSION

2006: Juris Master’s degree from Xiangtan University (China)

2020: Juris Doctor’s degree from Touro Law School (USA)

2010: Admitted to the Bar in China

2021: Admitted to the Bar in New York, USA

David Fronefield

DAVID FRONEFIELD ESQ.

Attorney

Email Contact@kasenlawfirm.com
Phone +1-718-337-8012

BIOGRAPHY

Former Bergen County New Jersey Prosecutor,.  Graduate, Rutgers Law School,. Member, American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists

Mr. Chou has also been admitted as attorney in Taiwan since 2015. He gained experience in reviewing contracts and performing legal research. Before passing the New York bar examination, he worked at The Kasen Law Firm, PLLC as a paralegal providing support to the work of our attorneys in the areas of criminal law, immigration law, IP law, and civil law etc. Mr. Chou has almost five years of experience working at The Kasen Law Firm, PLLC including as a paralegal, and now, an attorney. Mr. Chou is fluent in the Mandarin dialect of Chinese and English.

PRACTICE AREAS
EDUCATION & BAR ADMISSION

2006: Juris Master’s degree from Xiangtan University (China)

2020: Juris Doctor’s degree from Touro Law School (USA)

2010: Admitted to the Bar in China

2021: Admitted to the Bar in New York, USA

Ming Quan Zhang, ESQ.

Ming Quan Zhang, ESQ.

Attorney

Email Contact@kasenlawfirm.com
Phone +1-718-337-8012

BIOGRAPHY

Mingquan (Shaun) Zhang is a Minnesota licensed attorney and an expert in Immigration, Copyright and Blockchain Securities Law practice. Since Mr. Zhang was admitted in 2019, he has helped countless clients obtain their approvals of business and/or family immigration petitions. In so far, Mr. Zhang has assisted two U.S. corporations successfully minted, issued, and offered crypto currencies on Waves Exchange and helped ten medical researchers publish two medical research books that have been collected by the U.S. Library of Congress. 

Mr. Chou has also been admitted as attorney in Taiwan since 2015. He gained experience in reviewing contracts and performing legal research. Before passing the New York bar examination, he worked at The Kasen Law Firm, PLLC as a paralegal providing support to the work of our attorneys in the areas of criminal law, immigration law, IP law, and civil law etc. Mr. Chou has almost five years of experience working at The Kasen Law Firm, PLLC including as a paralegal, and now, an attorney. Mr. Chou is fluent in the Mandarin dialect of Chinese and English.

PRACTICE AREAS
EDUCATION & BAR ADMISSION

2006: Juris Master’s degree from Xiangtan University (China)

2020: Juris Doctor’s degree from Touro Law School (USA)

2010: Admitted to the Bar in China

2021: Admitted to the Bar in New York, USA

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