ALBERT W. CORNACHIO

ALBERT W. CORNACHIO III

CHRISTOPHER BLOCK

800 WESTCHESTER AVENUE, SUITE S-608

RYE BROOK, NEW YORK 10573

TELEPHONE   (914)  253-6533

 FACSIMILE     (914)   696-0450


Practice Areas:

Personal Injury Litigation; Probate Law and Surrogate’s Court Litigation; Trusts and Estates; Commercial and Residential Real Estate.

 

 

Professional Biographies:

 


ALBERT W. CORNACHIO, (e-mail awc@cornachiolaw.com) former Counsel to Public Administrator of Bronx County and  former Legal Counsel to the Bronx County Board of Realtors, was admitted to practice as an attorney and counselor at law before the courts in the State of New York in 1965. He is also licensed to practice before the United States Supreme Court, United States Court of Claims and United States Federal District Court, Southern District of New York. 

       Education: Fordham College of Arts and Sciences, 1961; Fordham Law School L.L.B. 1964, .J.D., 1965; Associate Professor, Emeritus (retired) Fordham University Undergraduate and Graduate Schools of Business Administration.


ALBERT W. CORNACHIO III, (e-mail awc3@cornachiolaw.com) was admitted to practice as an attorney and counselor at law before the courts of the State of New York in 1993.  He is also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and United States Federal District Courts, Southern District of New York and Eastern District of New York.  He served as an Assistant District Attorney in Bronx County from 1992 to1996, after which he was recruited to serve as defense trial counsel and later as supervising trial attorney for the Allstate Insurance Co. He is past President of the Columbian Lawyer’s Association of Westchester County; a Director of the Bronx County Bar Association; and a member of the New York State Bar Association.


               Education: Fordham College of Arts and Sciences, 1989; Fordham Law School J.D. 1992.



CHRISTOPHER BLOCK, (email cblock@cornachiolaw.com) was admitted to practice as an attorney and counselor at law before the courts in the State of New York in 2010. Prior to practicing law he taught mathematics with the New York City Department of Education for 10 years.

               Education: Stony Brook University, B.A. 1997; Fordham Law School, J.D. 2009.



History of The Law Firm

      ALBERT W. CORNACHIO has been active in the general practice of law since 1965.  Besides his expansive real estate practice, he has had extensive litigation experience representing clientele in hundreds of matters in the New York State Supreme Court and the Surrogate’s Courts of all Counties in the City of New York, as well as Westchester, Nassau, Suffolk and Rockland.  In 1999, when ALBERT III joined his father, the firm extended its case load to include a significant number of negligence cases. In his career as a trial lawyer, ALBERT III has litigated numerous jury and non-jury trials to verdict.

            Due to the continued growth of the practice CHRIS joined the firm, first as a law intern, then as an attorney when he was admitted to practice law in 2010.

        The principals of the firm take great pride in the fact that they have over 60 years experience in rendering personalized legal services to a wide array of clientele.  In addition, the firm has working relationships with outside counsel who are frequently called upon to render advice to clients in Matrimonial Law, Criminal Law, Commercial Law and other areas related to the general practice of law.