October 2025 – Carl T. Grasso, Esq.

Carl T. Grasso is a former member of the firm Herzfeld + Rubin, P.C.. in New York City, specializing in litigation and trial work in the areas of personal injury, product liability and commercial litigation. For more than four decades, he was intimately involved in trials all over the United States, as well as in New York. He was an arbitrator in the Small Claims Division of the Civil Court of the City of New York. He holds Martindale Hubbell’s highest rating. He is a cum laude graduate of New York Law School.

Mr. Grasso also served in the United States Army, while in Vietnam in the Corps of Engineers, and later in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. He has written for the Military Law Review and the Army Lawyer. He retired from the U.S. Army Reserve as a full colonel in 1996. His awards include the Bronze Star and the Legion of Merit. He was named one of the city’s top litigators in AVENUE magazine and a New York Super Lawyer in 2012. He is President of the Huntington Men’s Chorus, a male choral group.

Mr. Grasso has generously donated his time as a pro bono attorney for the 17A Guardianship program at Legal Services of Long Island. A recent client expressed their gratitude, writing: “Thank you Mr. Grasso for all your hard work on our case. We just received notice we have been appointed our child’s guardian, and we could not have done this without your assistance.”

Congratulations to Carl Grasso on being honored this month as the Pro Bono Lawyer of the Month by the Suffolk County Bar Association.