E-NEWSLETTER: June 2017

Civil Rights and Personal Injury and General Practice Law Firm, Dedicated to Social Justice

The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington is a well-respected litigation firm with an office in Hempstead, Long Island. Our focus is primarily in the area of civil rights, voting rights, employment discrimination, police misconduct, personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death and criminal law. However, the Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington is a full- service law firm handling matters in numerous areas of law and providing a wide range of services from contract formation to litigation and trial practice.

RECENT VERDICTS AND SETTLEMENTS
$7.75 million- Civil Rights and wrongful death action brought by the family of deceased

$4.7 million- Repeated verbal and physical assaults on Yemeni-American employee, while supervisor failed to protect employee and discipline the assailant

$1.277 million- Race based attack and serious injury by violent acts against Plaintiffs, who were lured to an isolated warehouse

$2.8 million- Wrongful death, products liability case involving a tow motor accident at a sewage treatment plant

New York State Bar Association Committee on Civil Rights Presents Frederick K. Brewington with the Haywood Burns Award

Frederick K. Brewington (front row, fourth from right) is joined by members of the City of New York (CUNY) Law School, the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) Committee on Civil Rights and guest speakers from the remembrance and award ceremony for the Haywood Burns Award ceremony that was held on June 13 at CUNY Law School in Long Island City. Also pictured with a portrait of the late Mr. Burns are Program Moderator Karen Murtagh (left) and Jeremy A. Benjamin (second from left), Members, NYSBA Committee on Civil Rights; Hon. Kristin Booth Glen (third from left), Dean Emerita, CUNY Law School and Guest Speaker; Victor Goode (fifth from left), Associate Professor, CUNY Law School and Guest Speaker; Mary Lu Bilek (front row, third from right), Dean, CUNY School of Law; Ambassador Robert Van Lierop (front row, second from right), former Permanent Representative to the United Nations for Vanuatu and Guest Speaker; and Claire P. Gutekunst (front row, right), Immediate Past President, NYSBA.

On June 13, Frederick K. Brewington was presented with the Haywood Burns Award by the New York State Bar Association Committee on Civil Rights during a special remembrance and award ceremony at CUNY (City University of New York) Law School in Long Island City.

Mr. Brewington is a respected lawyer and community advocate with a distinguished legal career. After working at a number of prestigious firms and law offices, including a clerkship at the Office of the Legal Counsel of the United States Senate, he began a private practice on Long Island. With his expertise in civil rights litigation, he has successfully challenged the “at-large” voting system in the Town of Hempstead and worked on preventing future unconstitutional and discriminatory purging of voters from the voting rolls.

His continued commitment to justice spans issues such as affordable housing, community revitalization efforts, employment and civil rights, the environment and, especially, voting rights and fair representation in government. Mr. Brewington has labored mightily against injustices as a litigator, writer, lecturer, and fosters the building of relationships of encouragement among citizen and civic groups.

Named for the late civil rights lawyer and former Dean of CUNY Law School, the Haywood Burns Award is given to an individual who has contributed to New York State in a manner that reflects Dean Burns’ commitment to the struggle for justice and the qualities that made him an outstanding advocate for civil rights and the empowerment of the powerless. From the age of 15 until his untimely death at the age of 55 while visiting South Africa, Dean Burns sought to expand the civil rights of all people and was actively involved in trying to extend connections to diverse groups within the community as a whole.

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