Attorneys

Linda S. Agnew
lagnew@jaspanllp.com

Linda S. Agnew is a partner in the Litigation Practice Group for Jaspan Schlesinger LLP. Ms. Agnew has extensive experience in trial and appellate advocacy with an emphasis in commercial litigation and title insurance defense claims.  Ms. Agnew has handled numerous complex commercial litigation matters including corporate dissolution actions, shareholder derivative actions and litigation involving real property.  She also has substantial experience in municipal law and land use.

Ms. Agnew co-authored the updated Chapter 17 of the Real Estate Titles treatise published by the New York State Bar Association in 2007 entitled “Adverse Possession”.  Ms. Agnew presently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Women Business Owners, Long Island Chapter, and is active in her church.  Ms. Agnew has also volunteered her time on Election Day in representing citizens who have been denied the right to vote in their particular polling places.  She was a recipient of the 2008 Public Service Attorney of the Year Award presented by the Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center.  She was a recipient of the 2009 Long Island Business News 40 under 40 award.  She is a member of the New York State Bar Association (Real Property Law Section), the Nassau County Bar Association, the Suffolk County Bar Association and the Nassau County Women’s Bar Association.

Ms. Agnew received her Juris Doctor from St. John's University School of Law and her Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Long Island University.  During law school, Ms. Agnew was a senior member of the Moot Court Honor Society where she competed in several State and National Moot Court Competitions.  She also interned with New York City’s Corporation Counsel where she was assigned to the Civil Torts Division.

B.A., Long Island University, magna cum laude - 1991 J.D., St. John's University School of Law - 1994

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