Our Team of Lawyers

 
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Dana L. Salazar, Esq.

Managing Partner

When clients consider retaining the ideal lawyer they typically seek intelligence, professional skill as well as the diligence and willingness to know and understand the client’s business. Business owners know that Dana has lived the challenges they face. She is mindful of the business consequences of obtaining the best results, which she does with a flourish.

Dana is a smart team player and her thinking is aggressive.  She is unflappable and committed to putting the interests of her clients first.  She is a strategist capable of expertly shepherding her clients’ cases through either a negotiation or a courtroom.

Prior to private practice, Dana served as a confidential law clerk to the Honorable Susan Phillips Read, Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals, where she worked on a variety of criminal and civil appellate matters.

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Phyllis Erikson, Esq.

Partner

Phyllis has broad domestic and international legal experience as Vice President and General Counsel of J.M. Huber Corporation, and in three major GE business groups: GE Power Systems, GE Capital and GE Plastics.  She has experience in transactional, commercial, regulatory, management-administrative and training.  She hired, trained, organized and led legal and support staffs in increasingly larger businesses in both companies.  She was a member of the Huber Management Council, which developed corporate strategy and set broad policy for the company.

All of her assignments have provided a variety of challenges. In all cases her approach has been the same: to partner with the business people in achieving the company’s goals, and determine the initiatives the legal operation must take in order to provide optimal legal services to meet the specific needs of each business.  Phyllis established a climate of trust, cooperation and teamwork; managers and executives came to view the legal department as a valued partner in achieving business goals.

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