Associates

Raymond Maceira / email

Mr. Maceira has been a trial attorney with the firm since 1995. As a fluent Spanish speaker, Ray acts as liaison with all Spanish-speaking clients and leads the firm’s lead paint poisoning department, by representing children who have sustained severe health damages due to the ingestion of lead-based paint and dust.

Mr. Maceira was born and raised in Queens, New York, the son of immigrant parents of Latino descent. He graduated from St. John’s University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management. He then attended Brooklyn Law School, where he was an officer in the Hispanic Law Students Association and a Brooklyn Law Students for the Public Interest (BLSPI) Fellow.

As a BLSPI Fellow, he worked for Brooklyn Legal Service Corporation in South Brooklyn assisting in the representation of indigent clients involved in housing and landlord-tenant disputes. He later spent a year with Brooklyn Law School’s Elder Law Clinic.

Always a fighter for the less privileged, Mr. Maceira has made it a point to provide quality representation to our injured clients - including lead poisoned children - and in doing so has obtained significant compensation on their behalf from such negligent parties as landlords, governmental agencies, corporations, construction companies and others. Mr. Maceira is zealously committed to fighting for the rights of the less fortunate and seriously injured clients and obtaining justice on their behalf.

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Jonathan O. Heller / email

Mr. Heller grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, where he attended the public schools.

A 1971 graduate of Amherst College, Mr. Heller worked for 13 years as a field organizer for the AFL-CIO, where he organized agricultural, textile, hospital, defense and other workers into affiliated unions.

After graduating from Cornell University Law School in 1987, he worked as a public defender for the Legal Aid Society in Manhattan. There, he defended accused felony suspects for five years. During that period, he successfully argued two landmark criminal cases in the New York Court of Appeals (People v. Legister and People v. Dozier).

Mr. Heller has been the Senior Associate at Dansker & Aspromonte for the last 13 years, concentrating on labor law, construction, and toxic torts. He also spearheaded the firm’s research department. In June 2006, he graduated to an Of Counsel position with the firm, and is currently on an extended teaching sabbatical.

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Vera Tsai

Vera Tsai is an associate attorney focusing on personal injury litigation. As a native Mandarin Chinese speaker, Ms. Tsai serves as liaison between the firm and the Chinese-speaking community. Ms. Tsai received her Bachlelor’s Degree in Government from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., where she taught Chinese courses in the East Asian Studies Department. Ms. Tsai received her Juris Doctorate from Seton Hall University School of Law in 2006. She served as a legal intern to New York City Councilman Alan Gerson and New Jersey Superior Court Judge Richard Camp. In addition, she participated in a fellowship program with McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney and Carpenter, LLP in Morristown, New Jersey. Prior to joining Dansker & Aspromonte, Ms. Tsai worked as an associate with Russell Tracano & Associates, where she concentrated in tort litigation. Ms. Tsai is licensed in New
York and New Jersey.