McCrea, Mitchell E.

Mariam Zakhary is both a licensed attorney and certified mediator who specializes in developing and tailoring legal strategies to each client's specific objectives. She has successfully litigated legal matters in both State and Federal Court on behalf of individuals and businesses. Her areas of concentration include negotiating and resolving contract and commercial disputes, health care disputes, patient rights' violations and litigating catastrophic personal injury cases and landlord tenant matters.

In addition to extensive litigation experience, Mariam Zakhary's post-graduate mediation certification equips her with the unique ability to thoroughly explore and evaluate advanced and novel legal strategies to position clients to obtain effective, efficient, and expedited resolutions of legal disputes. This approach is particularly suited to health care disputes, patient rights' violations, nursing home disputes, business disagreements, disputes about inherited property, disagreements among business partners and contract disputes, and work place conflict.

As an attorney, court-appointed mediator, active community member, and recognized patient advocate, she empowers her clients through the use of mediation, negotiation, and litigation. She is a member of the Orion Elder Care Advocacy Group and lectures on Mediating Eldercare and Healthcare disputes within Nursing Homes. She is an active member of the Coptic Egyptian Orthodox Christian Church in Staten Island, New York and speaks Arabic fluently.