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Better CallUsher!⚖You do not need more noise.
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Usher Law Group brings straight answers, deliberate strategy, and serious advocacy to complicated legal problems.
Usher Law Group P.C. / Client intakeYour case
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Direct answersNo legal fog. No evasions.
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Deliberate strategyEvery move has a reason.
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Real accessibilityYour case is not a file number.
Choose your case file
Serious problems.
Clear next moves.
When timing, detail, and judgment matter, you should know what your lawyer is doing, and why.
Explore Usher Law GroupSay nothing. Call counsel.
Criminal Defense
State and federal charges, arraignments and bail, suppression and dismissal motions, hearings, trial, violations of probation, and post-conviction relief.Facts first. Strategy always.
Civil Litigation
Business disputes, contract claims, emergency applications, and deliberate courtroom advocacy.Business is business. Until it is war.
Commercial Litigation
Contract disputes, partnership and shareholder conflicts, MCA defense, injunctions, collections, and high-stakes business claims.Access is not optional.
ADA Litigation
Federal Title III claims for people shut out of a business, including website and mobile application accessibility and physical barriers.You are not the only one they called.
Consumer Protection
Debt collection defense, FDCPA claims, credit reporting errors, billing disputes, and deceptive business practices.Protect what matters most.
Family Law
Divorce, custody, support, guardianship, and matters where the stakes are intensely personal.Pressure is not a plan.
Bankruptcy
Clear-eyed guidance for individuals and businesses confronting debt and difficult financial choices.The record is the argument.
Appeals
State and federal appeals, appellate briefs and oral argument, motions to reargue and renew, immigration appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals, and petitions for review in the circuit courts.Objection: too memorable
The lines are funny.
The strategy is not.
Original legal-drama riffs, tailored to the problems our clients actually bring us. No television magic required.
CASE NOTE 01IMMIGRATION“The government lost the file? Funny story. We filed the lawsuit.”
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CASE NOTE 02COMMERCIAL LITIGATION“Your contract has a plot twist. We prefer exhibits.”
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CASE NOTE 03FAMILY LAW“Family court has enough drama. Your lawyer should bring a plan.”
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CASE NOTE 04BANKRUPTCY“Debt collectors love cliffhangers. Bankruptcy law can end the episode.”
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CASE NOTE 05IN THE COURTROOM“Opposing counsel brought a speech. We brought the record.”
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CASE NOTE 06CRIMINAL DEFENSE“The first thing you say becomes evidence. The second thing you say should be our number.”
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CASE NOTE 07APPEALS“A trial record is not a rough draft. Read closely, it is a map.”
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CASE NOTE 08ADA LITIGATION“The store has a ramp. The website has a wall.”
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CASE NOTE 09CONSUMER PROTECTION“They bought your debt for pennies. They still have to prove it.”
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Results.Not excuses.
Immigration counsel · Nationwide
Your status is not paperwork.
It is your life.
We represent immigration clients across the country. Immigration cases combine unforgiving deadlines, enormous records, and consequences that reach entire families. We build the record, find the pressure points, and explain the path forward.
01Removal & deportation defense
02Asylum, withholding & CAT
03Family immigration
04Appeals & motions to reopen
05USCIS delay litigation
06Federal habeas & mandamus
The campaign
A memorable name.
A real law firm.
The imagery is a knowing homage to prestige legal drama. The representation is not make-believe.
Why Usher
The name gets your attention.
The work earns your trust.
This campaign has fun with legal-advertising culture. The lawyers behind it do not play around with your case.
- 01Preparation over performance.The best argument begins long before the hearing.
- 02Plain English over theater.You should know what is happening and why.
- 03Strategy over noise.Not every fight is won by shouting the loudest.
The attorneys
Three lawyers.
One standard.
Admissions, not adjectives. The firm works in English, Russian, Spanish and Uzbek, and appears in state and federal courts across the northeast and in Florida.
Founding and managing attorney
Mikhail Usher, Esq.
AdmittedNew York, New Jersey, Florida
Federal courtsS.D.N.Y., E.D.N.Y., S.D. Fla., Second Circuit, Eleventh Circuit
Works onRemoval defense and immigration litigation, criminal defense, commercial and MCA disputes, appeals
LanguagesEnglish, Russian, Spanish
Office1600 Sheepshead Bay Rd, Suite 203, Brooklyn, New York
Associate
Alexander Susi, Esq.
AdmittedNew York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Office1600 Sheepshead Bay Rd, Suite 203, Brooklyn, New York
Associate
Mitchell Bromberg, Esq.
AdmittedNew York, New Jersey
Office1600 Sheepshead Bay Rd, Suite 203, Brooklyn, New York
Immigration law is federal, so the firm represents people before USCIS and the immigration courts throughout the United States.
Full attorney profiles at usherlegal.comThe verdict
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Case file 01
Family. Freedom. Future.
Immigration
Immigration law is federal, so the firm represents people before USCIS, the immigration courts and the federal courts throughout the United States. The deadlines are unforgiving, the record is enormous, and the consequences reach an entire family. The work starts with the file, not with a speech.
What the firm handles
- Removal and deportation defense in immigration court
- Asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture
- Family based petitions, adjustment of status, and consular processing
- Naturalization, VAWA, and crimmigration questions when a criminal case touches status
- Immigration bonds and custody redeterminations
- Appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals and petitions for review in the circuit courts
- Mandamus and delay litigation when the agency stops moving on a pending case
Where the work happens. Immigration courts nationwide, with regular appearances in New York City and Miami, and USCIS offices across the country. Consultations are available in English, Russian and Spanish.
Case file 02
Say nothing. Call counsel.
Criminal Defense
The first thing you say becomes evidence. Everything that happens after an arrest becomes a record that someone will read back to you later, so the job is to control what goes into it and to test what the government says it has.
What the firm handles
- Felony and misdemeanor charges in New York and New Jersey courts
- Arraignments, bail applications, and securing order review
- Suppression motions, dismissal motions, and the hearings that go with them
- Discovery enforcement under CPL 245 and certificate of compliance challenges
- Hearings and trial
- Violations of probation and violations of a conditional discharge
- Post-conviction relief, including motions to vacate a plea that carries immigration consequences
The crimmigration crossover. A plea that looks small in criminal court can be a removal order in immigration court. Both sides of that question are handled in this office, which is the reason the two case files sit next to each other on this page.
Case file 03
Facts first. Strategy always.
Civil Litigation
The firm represents plaintiffs and defendants. Most civil cases are decided long before any trial, in the pleadings, in the motion practice, and in what the record ends up showing. That is where the effort goes.
What the firm handles
- Breach of contract claims and defenses
- Emergency applications, temporary restraining orders, and preliminary injunctions
- Property, landlord and tenant, and real estate disputes
- Employment disputes, including wage and hour claims
- Personal injury claims
- Special proceedings and petitions under CPLR Article 4
- Judgment enforcement, restraining notices, and traverse hearings
Where the work happens. Supreme Court in Kings, Queens, Bronx, New York and Richmond counties, e-filed through NYSCEF, together with the New Jersey and Florida courts and the federal district courts where the firm is admitted.
Case file 04
Business is business. Until it is war.
Commercial Litigation
Business disputes run on documents. The agreement, the ledger, the payment history, and the emails nobody expected to see marked as exhibits. The analysis starts there and the strategy follows from it.
What the firm handles
- Merchant cash advance defense, including UCC liens, restraining notices and account freezes
- Confession of judgment practice and motions to vacate
- Partnership, shareholder, and LLC member disputes
- Breach of contract, account stated, and unjust enrichment claims
- Injunctions, attachment, and other provisional remedies
- Collections and post-judgment enforcement
- Business fraud and fiduciary duty claims
MCA defense is an active docket here. If a funder has frozen a bank account, served a UCC notice on a processor, or filed suit, the time to respond is short and it is counted in days. Call before the default, not after it.
Case file 05
Access is not optional.
ADA Litigation
Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act requires places of public accommodation to be usable by people with disabilities, and that obligation follows the business online. The firm brings federal claims for people who were shut out, and the remedy the statute aims at is the barrier itself.
What the firm handles
- Website and mobile application accessibility claims under ADA Title III
- Physical barrier claims at places of public accommodation
- Parallel claims under the New York State and New York City Human Rights Laws
- Injunctive relief directed at remediating the barrier
- Federal motion practice, including default judgment practice under Rule 55
- Settlement structures that carry a remediation commitment rather than a promise
What Title III actually gives you. The federal statute provides injunctive relief and fee shifting to a prevailing plaintiff, not money damages. The state and city human rights laws reach further, which is why the claims are usually pleaded together. Cases are filed in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
Case file 06
You are not the only one they called.
Consumer Protection
Debt buyers and collectors operate at volume, and volume produces error: the wrong amount, the wrong person, a chain of assignment nobody can document. When a collector sues on a debt it cannot prove, or collects in a way the statute forbids, the law gives the consumer a response.
What the firm handles
- Defense of debt collection lawsuits, including debt buyer claims on old credit card balances
- Fair Debt Collection Practices Act claims against collectors who cross the line
- Medical debt and personal loan collection claims
- Credit reporting errors that follow you into a housing or employment application
- Billing disputes with utility, telecom and healthcare providers
- Deceptive practice claims, defective or misrepresented products, and contractor disputes
- Vacating default judgments and lifting frozen accounts and wage garnishments
A collection summons does not go away if you ignore it. It becomes a default judgment, and the default judgment becomes a restrained bank account or an income execution. The cheapest moment to deal with it is the first one.
Case file 07
Protect what matters most.
Family Law
Family court has enough drama. The work that decides the outcome is in the paperwork: the financial disclosure, the parenting plan, and the order that will still be governing your life three years from now.
What the firm handles
- Contested and uncontested divorce
- Child custody and parenting time
- Child support and spousal maintenance, including modification and enforcement
- Equitable distribution and marital asset issues
- Orders of protection and family offense petitions
- Guardianship
- Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements
An uncontested divorce is a filing project, not a fight. When both spouses agree, the matter is a document package and a calendar, and it is handled that way. When they do not agree, the disclosure is where the case is actually won.
Case file 08
Pressure is not a plan.
Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy is a set of rules built for a situation you may already be heading toward. The useful conversation happens before the judgment, the levy, or the foreclosure sale, while there are still choices left to make.
What a first conversation covers
- What the automatic stay does to collection activity, and what it does not touch
- Which debts a discharge reaches and which ones survive it
- Exemptions, and what actually stays with you
- How a filing interacts with a house, a car, and a small business
- Whether a filing is the right tool at all, or whether the better move is a negotiated resolution
- What a filing does to credit, and how long that lasts
Timing matters more than most people expect. Transfers, payments to family, and new credit in the months before a filing all get looked at. Ask the question early enough that the answer is still useful.
Case file 09
The record is the argument.
Appeals
An appeal is not a second trial. It is a close reading of what already happened, measured against what the law required, under a standard of review that decides most of the case before anyone reaches the merits.
What the firm handles
- Appeals in the New York Appellate Division and the Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal
- Federal appeals in the Second Circuit and the Eleventh Circuit
- Appellate briefs and oral argument
- Motions to reargue and motions to renew
- Immigration appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals
- Petitions for review of agency decisions in the circuit courts
- Emergency stays and motions for expedited consideration
Appellate deadlines are jurisdictional. The clock generally runs from service of the order with notice of entry, not from the day you decided you wanted to appeal. If an adverse order came down, the first call should be about the calendar.
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Usher Law Group P.C. / Brooklyn, New York
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There is no form on this page, and that is deliberate. A consultation involves facts that should not be typed into a web page before anyone has been retained. Call the office, or send an email with a way to reach you and a one-line description of the problem.
How to reach the firm
- Telephone: (718) 484-7510, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
- Email: info@usherlegal.com
- Office: 1600 Sheepshead Bay Rd, Suite 203, Brooklyn, New York 11235
- Languages spoken in the office: English, Russian, Spanish and Uzbek
- Immigration matters are handled nationwide, because immigration law is federal
Please do not send confidential case facts by email before a retainer is signed. Contacting the firm does not create an attorney-client relationship, and that relationship begins only when both sides sign a written retainer agreement.