Victor Fusco

Victor Fusco is a founding member at Fusco, Brandenstein, & Rada. He graduated from Hofstra University (BA in History & Economics 1972). He earned his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1975 and was admitted to practice in State and Federal Courts thereafter. He has practiced in the areas of Workers' Compensation and Social Security Disability and related areas of law since 1976. He is the founding president of the New York Social Security Bar Association’s and a founding member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America’s (now AAJ) Social Security Section. He is a past-president of National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives (NOSSCR).He has in the past served as an arbitrator in the Eastern District of the United States District Court, the Chair of Village of Lake Grove Zoning Board of Appeals and a member of the Suffolk County Charter Revision Committee. He belongs to the Nassau and Suffolk County Bar Associations, the New York State Bar Association and the NY Injured Workers Bar Association.An engaging and knowledgeable speaker and lecturer, he has presented and written about media relations, workers’ compensation and Social Security for National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives, the New York State Bar Association, the Practising Law Institute, Cornell’s School of Industrial Labor Relations and the New York Injured Workers Bar Association and the Nassau and Suffolk Bar Associations as well as various organizations for people with disabilities.He has been honored with awards from many organizations, including the Nassau County Police Department, the Town of Oyster Bay, the Town of Hempstead, Nassau and Suffolk County Legislatures, Congressman Steve Israel, Three Nassau County Executives, Suffolk County Executive Bellone, The New York State Assembly, the Foundation Fighting Blindness, the Lupus Foundation of America, Inc., the LI Federation of Labor,  The March of Dimes, The Institute for Jewish Philanthropies, the New York City Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, Long Island Jobs with Justice, and the AMT Children of Hope Foundation,From 1990 until 2016, Mr. Fusco hosted a weekly radio program "Labor-Lines" about working people, the organizations that represent them and the laws which impacted them. At its peak, the program was heard on up to seven stations in New York City, Long Island and Florida, as well as by webcast and podcast.