Vaughan, S. Kate

Byron Lassin has been practicing law since 1970. He graduated City College in 1967 and graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 1969 and received a Juris Doctor's Degree. Presently he is an active member of the New York State Bar and admitted to practice in the U.S. Eastern and Southern District Court of New York. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and the Queens Bar Association.

Since 1971, Mr. Lassin has been in private practice and has successfully represented clients in obtaining millions of dollars for their personal injury cases. (Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome.) Mr. Lasin has represented more than 1,000 clients in personal injury cases.

Presently, Mr. Lassin represents immigrant day laborers who have been injured in construction accidents. Mr. Lassin also assists day laborers to understand their rights while living and working in New York City. He has assisted day laborers in obtaining wages when employers improperly refuse to pay and has done so without any charge to the day laborer. Mr. Lassin was instrumental in convincing the District Attorney's Office to arrest an employer who did not pay wages to a group of day laborers. As part of the disposition of the criminal matter more than $100,000 had to be paid to day laborers. Mr. Lassin did not accept a fee in this matter. When a hospital refused to take a cast off the arm of a patient that they put on, Mr. Lassin contacted the hospital and was successful in having the hospital properly remove the cast. Mr. Lassin did not charge a fee.

His office remains open to day laborers who have questions about their rights. He does not charge for a consultation and he offers information regarding the right to sue for the injuries they have sustained in construction accidents, the right to sue for lost wages as a result of the injuries, the right to have Workers' Compensation benefits, the right to access medical care, the right to privacy, the right to use the courts of the city and state, the right to stand on the corner, the right to pursue a claim for wages not paid, the right not to be discriminated against and many other rights and issues.