Keith P. Brown and David Altman, experienced commercial real estate lawyers on Long Island and former colleagues, have established their own firm

Real Estate Weekly, March 26, 2008

Keith P. Brown and David Altman, experienced commercial real estate lawyers on Long Island and former colleagues, have established their own firm, Brown & Altman, LLP, in Garden City, offering a broad range of legal services to the real estate development industry.

* Brown, most recently was partner and managing attorney at Garden City-based Amato & Associates, P.C., where he managed an 18-lawyer staff. He previously was counsel in the litigation department at McMillan, Rather, Bennett & Rigano, P.C. in Melville and an assistant New York State attorney general in the litigation bureau in Manhattan. He began his legal career as an associate at Siben & Siben, LLP in Bay Shore.

* Altman previously was a partner in the Smithtown law firm of DeBenedittis & Altman, P.C., where he specialized in land use and commercial litigation. Prior to that, he was a partner and head of litigation at Amato & Associates, P.C. in Garden City and was Of Counsel to Vincent J. Trimarco, Esq., Smithtown, where he specialized in zoning/land use and commercial law.