Warren E. Berbit

Principal
email: wberbit@lexowberbit.com

Warren E. Berbit is a former electrical engineer, with a BS (EE) from City College School of Engineering and a MS (EE) from New York University, having helped design a secret navigation system for the military, and having flown the same for three (3) years during the Vietnam era.   Mr. Berbit then attendedFordham Law School, and has practiced law with the Firm of which he has become the principal, starting as a law clerk in 1971, an attorney in 1973, and partner in 1977.  The Firm has represented the Clarkstown Central School District since centralization in 1949, and the component districts since the early 1900’s.

Mr. Berbit, whose specialties are in education and municipal law, has individually been General Counsel to the Clarkstown CentralSchool District since 1978.   He also helped form the Village ofMontebello, where he has held the position of Village Attorney since its incorporation in 1986, in addition to serving in a consulting capacity to other villages.

Mr. Berbit has litigated numerous education law and related issues before the Commissioner of Education, PERB, NYS Division of Human Rights, New York Supreme Courts, Appellate Divisions and Court of Appeals, U.S. District Courts and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

He has lectured on education law, in general, and on topics such as student rights, student discipline, probation and tenure of pedagogical employees, and related issues.  As well as on land use regulations and zoning law.

Mr. Berbit helped form the Rockland Center for Holocaust Studies, and remains on the Board of Governors, and is an elected Trustee of the Suffern Free Library, presently also serving as Vice President.  He has published articles on technical and whimsical issues associated with amateur radio, on the history of radio, and has published poetry.