Lane T. Maxson
Managing Partner
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Lane T. Maxson received his Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from Dowling College in 1984. In 1987 he graduated with his J.D. degree from St. John’s University School of Law and thereafter entered private practice. For two decades Mr. Maxson has successfully handled a broad variety of commercial and landlord/tenant actions as well as employment, disability, gender discrimination cases, health care, corporate, education, municipal, and real estate law. He has distinguished himself at all levels of the litigation process, from trial through appeal, in both federal and state courts. He is a member of the Building Owners and Managers Association ("BOMA"), Long Island, where he participates in round-tables and shares his expertise in landlord/tenant law. Mr. Maxson has also taught the study of law as an adjunct instructor at Briarcliffe College.

Mr. Maxson has assumed a leadership role as an alumnus of Dowling College, having served on both the Board of Trustees of the College and the Executive Board of the Alumni Association, and having volunteered as President of the Alumni Association for two consecutive two-year terms. He has served the local community as a member of the Pastoral Council at St. Patrick’s Church in Smithtown, as a member of the Board of Directors of the Long Island String Quartet, as well as the South Shore Boys’ Club and as a member of the American Celtic Pipe Band. Mr. Maxson has taken an active interest in the youth of Long Island as a member and Vice President of the Board of Education of St. Patrick’s School in Smithtown, as a participant in Islip Youth Developmental Services since 1990, as an Assistant Scout Master for the Boy Scouts of America for five years, as an ice hockey coach for the Bay Shore High School hockey team, and as the coach of his daughters’ soccer teams, with State and regional diplomas through the National Soccer Coaches' Association of America.

Mr. Maxson is admitted to practice in the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Court in the Northern, Southern, and Eastern Districts of New York, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, and all New York State and New Jersey State courts. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association.