Experience

Peter J. Mastaglio is recognized as an experienced, knowledgeable attorney and a fair and thorough legal practitioner. With substantial experience handling commercial matters, as a mediator and as a litigator, he has successfully represented clients in a diverse range of matters that include employment, discrimination, real property taxation, eminent domain, zoning and land use, general contract and corporate law, constitutional law, real estate law, creditors’ rights, professional malpractice litigation and civil rights disputes.

Mr. Mastaglio has extensive trial experience in both state and federal courts, as well as arbitration, and has argued many appeals before the New York Court of Appeals, the Appellate Divisions of the New York State Supreme Court, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He is a prominent commercial litigator, well known throughout the New York Metro area legal community, regularly appearing in the courtrooms of Kings, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties.

As both a commercial litigator and mediator, Mr. Mastaglio has a wealth of experience handling, counseling, supervising and mediating hundreds of complex claims and lawsuits that include banking and finance, commercial and corporate, construction, labor law, professional malpractice and real estate matters. He has the ability to evaluate cases from all sides, having represented both plaintiffs and defendants and has negotiated settlements of multi-party disputes involving complex issues of law and legal relationships.

Mr. Mastaglio began his legal career as a Judge Advocate and served as a Captain in the United States Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia and the Republic of Vietnam. He later joined Cullen and Dykman LLP, became a partner and continues to practice law with that firm 50+ years later.

Practice Areas

Corporate and Shareholder Disputes
Construction Law
Employment Law
Professional Liability

Licenses

New York State Bar
United States Supreme Court
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
United States Tax Court
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

Professional Associations, Appointments, & Awards

New York State Bar
Nassau County Bar Association, Commercial Litigation Committee
New York Bar Foundation, Former District Chair
Committee on Character and Fitness for the Second, Tenth, Eleventh and Thirteenth Judicial Districts
Board of Governors, Touro Law School, Former Member
YMCA of Long Island, Former Chairman

Education

New York University School of Law, J.D., 1966

Manhattan College, B.A., 1963