Oceanside resident Greg Lisi to lead Nassau bar association committee

Lifelong Oceanside resident Greg Lisi has been appointed chair of the lawyer referral committee and the nominating committee of the Nassau County Bar Association in Mineola.

The nominating committee selects coming members of the board of directors and the executive committee, the secretary to the board of directors, and the President.

The Lawyer Referral Committee is a service that the Bar Association provides for free to the general public. Anyone who needs a non-pro bono attorney can call the Bar Association and the committee will recommend several attorneys who handle a specific area of law.

Lisi is a past President of the Nassau County Bar Association, where he has also served on the Board of Directors, is a past chair of the Labor & Employment Law Committee, and is a member of the Commercial Litigation and Federal Courts committees.

“Being the president of the Nassau County Bar Association was one of the greatest honors of my life,” Lisi said. “They are wonderful people. I became president during Covid and to get us through Covid and out the other side, and to be able to do all the great things that we are doing now is absolutely one of the great honors of my life.”

Lisi, 56, is the head of the employment and labor practice group at the Forchelli Deegan Terrana LLP firm. He handles claims for businesses on Long Island and in New York City, including sexual harassment, discrimination, wage and union issues, and civil rights cases.

Lisi has been a member of the association for about 25 years. He lives in Oceanside and has three children, Jessica, 21, Dylan, 19, and Ethan, 16. In Oceanside, he is the coach of the Stallions roller hockey team and a member of the Kiwanis Club.

Lisi is a graduate of Oceanside High School and earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Buffalo and his juris doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.

The Bar Association is an organization of more than 4,500 attorneys that has been in existence since 1899, and it represents the interests of attorneys in Nassau. Lisi serves on the board of directors for the Bar Association and worked his way up from secretary to treasurer to president.

The association provides a mortgage foreclosure clinic where people who are being foreclosed upon can either get an attorney or receive advice on how to handle foreclosure.

The organization leads a Hurricane Sandy clinic for community members who have issues related to the disaster and also provides a pro bono clinic twice a year where anybody can come to the bar association and sit down with a pro bono attorney to help with specific legal issues free of charge.

The Bar Association also works with Nassau Suffolk Law Services and other pro bono groups to help provide attorneys to people who need them.

It provides dinners for seniors during Thanksgiving and collaborates with the Tunnels to Towers Foundation. The bar association buses people from Nassau County into Brooklyn to participate in the Tunnel to Towers 5K Run & Walk in New York City, held each year on the last Sunday of September. Going forward Lisi wants to continue the good work the Bar does for the Nassau community.

“I’m still extremely active and the goal is really to help the bar help the Nassau County community as a whole,” he said. Attorneys and also the general public. It’s a wonderful association that really does help the people of Nassau County.”