Marc Gann is one of the most highly regarded lawyers on Long Island. An AV-rated attorney who currently serves as the elected 1st Vice President of the 6,000-member Nassau County Bar Association, Marc is on the "short list" of preeminent Nassau County criminal defense practitioners and has handled numerous high-profile cases throughout the metropolitan area. Most of his clients are referred by other lawyers, criminal court personnel, or previous clients whom he successfully defended. Marc also serves as Chair of several committees of the Nassau County Bar Association, including the Grievance Committee (reviewing the legal competence and professional conduct of lawyers in the Tenth Judicial District). He is listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.

An experienced trial lawyer, Marc defends all types of criminal cases - from minor traffic matters and drunk driving cases to the most serious major felonies - in the courts of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island, Nassau County and Suffolk County. He has handled serious felony charges in both the Southern and Eastern Federal Districts of New York. He is particularly experienced in the defense of murder cases, and had been certified to handle death penalty cases by the New York Capital Defender's Office. He has handled numerous homicide cases including a double murder in Nassau County, and has been lead counsel in the defense of a multi-defendant murder and kidnapping case that received national attention. He is also experienced in the defense of drug cases, including cases involving anabolic steroids and other bodybuilding drugs. He is admitted to practice both in New York and Maryland.

He has taken verdicts on major felony charges such as burglary, robbery, drug sale and commercial fraud. He has examined and cross-examined all types of witnesses from civilian and police witnesses to experts in areas such as ballistics, fingerprints, serology and forensic pathology. He also has expertise in the defense of Driving While Intoxicated cases, having defended many hundreds of these cases. Having prosecuted drunk driving cases exclusively for a portion of his tenure as an assistant district attorney, trying numerous cases to verdict, he has a substantial practical advantage in now defending these cases.

Marc has handled a variety of legal matters beyond criminal cases. Specifically, he regularly provides counsel to companies in the sports nutrition industry. He has also litigated numerous personal injury and other civil cases from inception to conclusion including depositions, arbitrations and trials, and has handled cases before the Surrogate Court, including probate and administration matters.

Marc has previously served as an elected Director of the Nassau County Bar Association. He is Past Chair of the Criminal Courts Law and Procedure Committee of the Bar, where he planned and chaired continuing legal education programs and seminars for criminal lawyers throughout the county. He was honored as the recipient of the Association's 2001 Directors' Award for his outstanding contributions the legal community. He has frequently lectured to the local and State Bar Associations and the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. In recognition of his superlative trial skills, he was asked to serve as Team Leader for the 2002 National Institute of Trial Advocacy program at Hofstra University Law School. He continues to serve as Adjunct Faculty at Hofstra Law.

He has been interviewed by the media on many occasions regarding issues of criminal law, and he often appears on local television. He is a past president of the Former Assistant District Attorneys Association of Nassau County and is a member of the American Bar Association and other legal and professional associations. He is also highly active in community associations and volunteer programs, including serving for many years in a Bar association student mentor program at a local middle school.

He received his B.A. from Franklin and Marshall College and his law degree from Hofstra University School of Law. Following his tenure as a prosecutor in Nassau County, Marc spent several years in Baltimore handling both criminal and civil matters in State and Federal court before returning to New York to form Collins, McDonald and Gann, P.C..

Alan Feldstein brings with him more than a dozen years of advertising and marketing law experience and more than seven years in the dietary supplement industry. Alan's expertise is such that he serves as a professor of law on the Adjunct Faculty staff at Southwestern University School of Law, teaching advertising and marketing law.

Alan's legal career began as a successful civil trial lawyer prosecuting business litigation cases for his clients. Alan then joined and became a partner in a New York advertising and marketing law firm representing film, television, and music clients, business clients and advertising agencies, direct response television clients, marketing firms and advertisers. Known for his negotiating skills and business acumen, Alan?s clients always have appreciated his business perspective on resolving legal issues affecting their business.

In 1997, at the request of one of his clients, Alan became general counsel for a dietary supplement company and was part of the management team that took the company to over 150 million dollars in annual sales. In addition to this work, Alan was the catalyst for putting together several industry associations in their ongoing effort to educate the public, legislators and administration officials on the facts and science regarding dietary supplements containing ephedra. He has flown over a million miles meeting with officials in Washington, D.C., and state capitals around the country. He has extensive experience in drafting legislation, working with legislators and agency officials and advising companies on how to convey their messages in a positive and effective manner. He also has extensive experience in assisting nutritional companies with contracts, copyright and trademark, litigation supervision, claim substantiation and regulatory issues.

As a result of all this experience and his extraordinary qualifications, Alan was selected by Collins, McDonald & Gann, P.C., to become Of Counsel to the firm and assist CMG clients in complying with the constantly changing, ever challenging maze of rules and regulations affecting nutritional companies. Alan is personally responsible for advising some of CMG's biggest clients in the supplement industry. His location in southern California provides CMG with a presence on both coasts.

Alan obtained his undergraduate degree from UCLA and his law degree from Southwestern University School of Law.

Daniel Russo primarily practices in the area of criminal defense, dietary supplement law, general civil litigation and real estate matters. He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from Hofstra University in 1996 and his Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law in 1999. He is admitted to practice law in New York State and the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Dan is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the Nassau County Bar Association where he is an active committee member.

Dan brings his wide range of experience to Collins, McDonald & Gann after operating his own practice in the areas of criminal defense and real estate matters. He is a former Assistant District Attorney in Kings County, New York where he prosecuted misdemeanor and violent felony cases up to and including trial. In addition, he is a former associate at the law firm of Stern & Montana, LLP, where he conducted insurance fraud investigations on behalf of insurance carriers. Dan has also published articles on topics ranging from the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to criminal procedure in New York City courts.

Mike DiMaggio primarily practices in the area of dietary supplement law and sports drug defense. His concentration involves FDA and FTC regulatory compliance matters, cases involving performance enhancing drugs such as anabolic steroids and human growth hormone, and esoteric drug cases involving substances such as 1,4-butanediol, gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB), and dextromethorphan (DXM). He is a graduate of Albany University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. He received his Juris Doctor from St. John’s University School of Law and is admitted to the New York State Bar and the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Mike is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, and the Nassau County Bar Association.

Mike is the former Executive Director of the United Supplement Freedom Association (USFA), an organization dedicated to protecting consumer access to dietary supplements primarily by lobbying on Capitol Hill and organizing grassroots support. He is also the former Finance Director for the Nassau County Democratic Party, where he helped raise over a million dollars in local contributions. Mike brings his political experience and extensive knowledge of dietary supplements to Collins, McDonald & Gann as an associate in our Nutritional Supplement Law and Sports Drug Defense practice area.