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Senior Lawyer

Law Firm: Bangel Cohen & Falconetti, LLP

Specialty: Workers’ Compensation

Address: 91-31 Queens Boulevard Suite 400, Elmhurst, NY 11373

Phone: (718) 446-4400

Website: www.bcfcomplaw.com

Facebook: bcfcomplaw

Education

• J.D. – 1997 from George Washington University Law School, Washington, District of Columbia
• B.A. – 1994 from University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, New York

Attorney Antonio J. Otero focuses his business on helping people via the Workers’ Compensation system and through ADR. Mr. Otero was born in New York City to immigrant parents and grew up there. He is an avid union supporter and advocate for the rights of injured workers. Mr. Otero is a member of a union family and has strong ties to numerous unions. Both of his grandparents were union workers; his grandfather was a Con Edison welder, and his grandmother was an ILGWA-affiliated seamstress. Both his mother and his wife are UFT workers.

Mr. Otero is very active within the union, spending much of his time to educate other members at meetings and conferences. Mr. Otero is well-versed in the Spanish language and actively supports various immigrant and Hispanic groups, including Tepeyac and Mixteca.

Bar Admission

• New York, 1999

Professional Associations

• New York County Bar Association
• Queens County Bar Association
• Hispanic National Bar Association
• Suffolk County Bar Association
• Nassau County Bar Association