Law Offices of Louis J. Maione P.C.

On March 1, 2022, Mr. Maione favorably settled a matter on behalf of Plaintiff for the usurpation and misappropriation of a patent and trademark by co-inventor/defendant for an amount which by agreement cannot be disclosed but with which Plaintiff was very pleased. Plaintiff had been frozen out of company which owned a patented medical device.

On September 22, 2021, Mr. Maione prevailed on a Motion to Dismiss a $260,000+ claim against his client based on an alleged guarantee by his client of the debts of several corporations, owned or operated by him, to the complaining Plaintiff. The Supreme Court of New York, by Judge Arthur Engoron, applying the law of New York under its Statute of Frauds, agreed with the individual defendant's argument concerning the questionable validity of the putative oral promise as it applied to honoring t...

On September 4, 2020,  Mr. Maione prevailed on a motion for summary judgment in connection with a casualty case in which his client's SPA was severely damaged by the actions of a business neighbor negligently responsible for a fire in the adjacent premises. Based on the ordinarily difficult to prevail theory of res ipsa loquitor, Mr. Maione placed the defendant's insurance carrier in the unenviable position where it could not oppose the facts or the law and, as a result, the New Y...

Successfully negotiated a favorable severance package for a high end employee of a well-known, New York-based international cosmetic company terminated after 27 years with a less than acceptable agreement.The ultimate settlement, worth six figures, alleviated the necessity of filing a complaint in federal court for discrimination based on both age and gender.

Successful in obtaining a dismissal of the Complaint, inter alia, based on a failure to establish personal jurisdiction, and the vacatur of a default previously entered against a Turkish defendant in a seven figure products liability matter concerning the importation of spices. Schiff Food Products v. Turer Bitkisel, 18-Civ-9017 (D.N.J. 2018)(SDW)

Successfully represented a subject matter individual in an ongoing investigation initiated by the combined efforts of the Food and Drug Administration and Federal Trade Commission. 

On April 3, 2019, Mr. Maione obtained a favorable Decision by Summary Judgment against one of the Member/owners of a golf course located in the Adirondack Region of upstate New York finally disposing of an arduous Mortgage Foreclosure action initiated in 2013, which wound it's way through a number of Courts; this included the Bankruptcy Court in the Northern District of New York where the defendant, a member of the LLC which owned the golf course, attempted to stall the proceedings by filling...

On July 9, 2018, shortly prior to jury selection, Mr. Maione settled a dispute for oppressive behavior by members of an LLC for eight figures, with the client very pleased with the outcome of the litigation.

On June 6, 2018, Mr. Maione favorably settled a New York Contract cause of action for six figures against a large, Charitable Not-for-Profit organization which had ceased making annuity payments to a Florida Annuitant who was contractually entitled to those payments as a result of inheritance. The matter, initiated only this past January, was resolved in short order due to aggressive and innovative legal action. The client, a senior citizen, is very satisfied with the outcome. 

Resolved for $370,000.00 a fraud and breach of contract matter for a client who invested $300,000.00 as an investor in a Condominium which was never built.