About Colleran, O'Hara & Mills L.L.P.

Colleran, O'Hara & Mills founded by Richard L. O'Hara in 1963, has represented labor organizations, their related fringe benefit funds, and individual Union members, both in their employment and in private legal matters. As the complexity and needs of its clients has grown, the firm kept pace in maintaining its status as an innovative and imaginative legal resource center for its clients. The firm takes great pride in the superior quality of its legal work and its commitment to servicing the legal needs of its clients. (It has an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory as well as a listing in its Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.)


Labor Law

Colleran, O'Hara & Mills has over four decades of experience representing labor organizations in both the public and private sector, including all aspects of collective bargaining, contract enforcement through grievance process and arbitration, representation proceedings, elections and the representation of a labor organization as a legal entity and any and all litigation which might attend those functions.


Colleran, O'Hara & Mills continues to service a broad spectrum of clients in the labor movement in the New York Metropolitan Area. Our current union clients include: Asbestos Workers Union, Local No. 12, Building & Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, Iron Workers District Council of Greater New York, Iron Workers Local Union No. 40, Iron Workers Local Union No. 361, Iron Workers Local Union No. 417, Iron Workers Local Union No. 580, Local 895, PFFA, Larchmont Firefighters, Local F-72 I.A.T.S.E., Long Island Federation of Labor, Local Union No. 7, Bricklayers & Allied Craftsman, New York City Central Labor Council, New York State AFL-CIO, New York State AFL-CIO Directly Affiliated Local Union No. 24730, Stone Derrickmen & Riggers Local No. 197, Transport Workers Union Local 106, Transport Workers Union Local 241, Transport Workers Union Local 252.


ERISA

Colleran O'Hara & Mills led the way in the areas of pension, health and annuity funds, pre-paid legal services funds, apprenticeship fund, and a range of supplemental funds including vacation funds, additional benefit funds, scholarship funds and mortgage programs for fund participants.


Our current fringe benefit fund clients include:
Architectural, Ornamental and Miscellaneous Metal ("AOMM") Industry Promotion Fund, Asbestos Workers Union, Local 12 Pension Fund, Welfare Fund, Annuity Fund, AJEF, Holiday & Unemployment Fund, Derrickmen Local 197 Annuity Fund, Welfare Fund, Pension Fund, Vacation Fund and AJEF, Iron Workers Locals 40, 361 & 417 Pension Fund, Health Fund Vacation Fund, Annuity Fund, Topping Out Fund, Iron Workers Locals 40 & 361 Annuity Fund, Joint Apprenticeship Training Fund, Iron Workers Local 417, Training and Educational Fund, Iron Workers Local 580 Pension Fund, Insurance Fund, Annuity Fund, Benefit Fund, Apprentice-Journeyman Educational Fund, Vacation Fund and Supplemental Fund, Iron and Steel Industry Promotion Fund of New York, Marble Industry Trust Fund and Pension Fund, Tile Layers Helpers Local 88 Savings Fund and Vacation Funds, B.A.C., Local 7 Tile Industry Welfare Fund and Annuity Fund, N.Y.S. AFL-CIO Pension Fund and Annuity Fund.


Real Estate

In addition to its specialization in Labor Law, the firm specializes in the representation of mortgage lenders as residential and commercial closing counsel, as well as compliance counsel.


The firm has among its representative clients:
ABN Amro Mortgage Group, Inc., Amalgamated Bank, North Fork Bank/Green Point Mortgage Funding, Inc., JP Morgan Chase Bank, CitiMortgage, Inc., HSBC Mortgage Corporation (USA), First Nationwide Mortgage Corp., G.M.A.C. Mortgage Corporation, Homeside Lending, Inc., Option One, Indymac Bank, OceanFirst Bank, Signature Bank, Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., Real Estate Mortgage Network, Inc., USA Bank, National City Mortgage Co., Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Washington Mutual Bank, F.A., AccuBanc, Fremont Investment & Loan, Great American Mortgage Corp., Bank of America and WMC Mortgage Corp. Further, the firm is counsel to Iron Equity, Inc., a private pension fund lender that extends mortgages to the members of Locals 40, 361 and 417 International Bridge and Structural Iron Workers Union.


Litigation

In the past several years, the firm's litigation practice has become more diversified successfully representing clients in Federal and State Courts. Additionally, the firm has and continues to litigate commercial and intellectual property issues for American Casting Company, Plainview, New York.