Attorney Profiles
Philip E. Taubman
With more than 30 years of experience, senior partner Philip E. Taubman has focused his law practice on employment discrimination, sexual harassment, civil rights cases, First Amendment and whistleblower litigation, public service employees, and disciplinary issues. He also handles liability matters and commercial and personal injury litigation.
Mr. Taubman was admitted to the bar in Iowa (1974) and New York (1975) after receiving his BBA in 1971 from the City College of the City University of New York and his Juris Doctorate from John Marshall Law School in 1974. He was an instructor in Labor and Employment Law at City University of New York. He also served as General Counsel for the Correction Officers Benevolent Association of New York. Mr. Taubman is a member and Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the National Employment Lawyers Association of New York (NELA), chairs the Speakers Bureau of NELA, and serves on the Employment and Labor Committees of the New York County Lawyers Association and Brooklyn Bar Association. Mr. Taubman is also a mediator for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Glenn A. Kimelman
Founding partner Glenn A. Kimelman heads the personal injury department of Taubman Kimelman & Soroka, LLP. He is an experienced trial attorney with numerous New York jury verdicts, including verdicts in excess of $ 1 million. He is admitted to practice in New York, Florida, and New Jersey, as well as the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Mr. Kimelman is a member of the New York State, Bronx, and American Bar Associations; the New York State Trial Lawyers Association; and the New York State Civil and Criminal Bar Association.
Mr. Kimelman obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton (1985) and his Juris Doctorate from Syracuse University (1988). His practice areas include personal injury law, automobile accidents, trucking accidents, wrongful death, toxic torts, premises liability, construction accidents, head injury, and spinal injury.
Mark S. Soroka
Partner Mark S. Soroka practices in the areas of labor law, employment law, collective bargaining, pension and trust funds, administrative law, bankruptcy, divorce, and trusts and estates. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1977. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the City College of the City of New York and his Juris Doctorate from Hofstra University in 1976.
Mr. Soroka has been particularly successful in handling over 1,000 contractual arbitrations. He has helped hundreds of employees get their jobs back, most with substantial back pay awards. Mr. Soroka has counseled some seventeen different labor organizations, their members and their trust funds. He also made new law in the New York State Court of Appeals case of Civil Service Bar Association, Local 237, I.B.T. vs. City of New York and Katz and Blucher, which broadened a labor union's ability to favorably settle arbitrations for their bargaining unit members.
Antonette M. Milcetic
Associate attorney Antonette M. Milcetic graduated Summa Cum Laude from Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York, in 1998, and obtained her law degree from Brooklyn Law School in 2002. She is a member of the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, as well as the New York State Bar Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the New York County Lawyers' Association, and the National Employment Lawyers' Association of New York. Ms. Milcetic specializes in the fields of personal injury, employment law including employment discrimination and sexual harassment cases, civil rights cases including First Amendment claims, Section 1983 litigation, public employment, and the civil service law.
