Lexow, Berbit & Associates, P.C., is engaged in the general practice of law, emphasizing the areas of education law, business, banking, real estate, municipal law, litigation, estates, bankruptcy, traffic violations, appellate practice, and intellectual property (trademark and copyright).  The Firm represents businesses, municipal entities and individuals.  Our philosophy is one of attention to detail and counseling clients in the hope of avoiding situations and loose ends prone to litigation.  However, where litigation becomes necessary, that service is provided with dedication to the causes of the Firm’s clients.

The roots of Lexow, Berbit & Associates, P.C. go back more than 110 years to Senator Clarence Lexow and the firm of Harris and Lexow with offices in Nyack and New York City, circa 1895-1911.  In 1894, Senator Lexow, a figure of historical significance, chaired the first commission in the United States to investigate police corruption (“The Lexow Commission”).  Among his other legacies, the Senator sponsored the legislation that created the City of New York and the Palisades Interstate Park Commission.

Morton Lexow, Senator Lexow’s son, followed in the Firm’s practice.  The latter Mr. Lexow, also District Attorney from 1919 to 1930, was one of the most influential attorneys in the development of Rockland County during the period from before World War I until his death in 1976.  In 1933, the Firm became known as Lexow and Jenkins, when William Henry Jenkins joined Morton Lexow as a partner.  It continued under that name for more than fifty years with David Moses and Alfred Froh joining as partners over time, as later did Warren Berbit who remains the principal.  During that half century, many of the banks, municipalities and large corporate entities existing today in Rockland County were formed by the Firm and comprised part of its client base.  Susan Mills Richmond merged her practice into Lexow, Berbit & Associates in 2005.