The Uniondale law firm Sahn Ward Braff Coschignano PLLC has promoted Samuel L. Bifulco and Christopher DeNicola to partner.
Mr. Bifulco concentrates his practice in zoning and land use planning, real estate law and transactions, municipal law and legislative practice, corporate law, and estate planning. He represents clients throughout Long Island, with a primary focus on municipalities in Suffolk County.
Based in the firm’s Hauppauge office, Bifulco represents private and public clients, as well as not-for-profit institutions, in a broad range of matters. He recently guided several significant commercial and residential developments through the entitlement and approval process. Bifulco also counsels small businesses, construction groups, and real estate operating companies on day-to-day business operations and real estate development strategies.
In recognition of his professional achievements, Bifulco was selected to the 2025 Super Lawyers Metro New York Rising Stars list, the Herald Community Newspapers Top Lawyers of Long Island Rising Stars list, and was named a recipient of the Long Island Business News 40 under 40 Award.
Outside of his legal practice, Bifulco has founded and led numerous philanthropic organizations over the years. He currently serves as president of the St. Joseph’s University Alumni Association where he represents over 42,000 alumni and serves as Chair of the Long Island Alumni Association Endowed Scholarship Committee. Bifulco sits on the Executive Board of the Centereach Civic Association, which focuses on community outreach and public improvement in the Centereach and greater Brookhaven Town communities. He is also a member of the Middle Country Chamber of Commerce, the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, and the Suffolk County Bar Association.
Prior to joining the firm, Bifulco spent nearly a decade working at the Town of Brookhaven in various capacities. He served as the executive assistant in the Brookhaven Town Law Department, where he managed the town’s unsafe structure program, prosecuted town code violations in the Sixth District Court, and helped oversee and conference case files.
Bifulco is admitted to practice law in the State of New York. He earned his Juris Doctor from the Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in Central Islip, graduating summa cum laude. Before law school, Mr. Bifulco graduated with distinction from Stony Brook University, where he earned a Master of Arts in Public Policy and from St. Joseph’s University with a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Political Science, Criminal Justice, and Human Relations.
DeNicola concentrates his practice in New York City zoning and land use planning. In this role, he represents the firm’s clients, including real estate owners, developers, lenders and not-for-profit institutions in a wide range of matters, including development rights transactions, zoning reviews and analyses, discretionary approvals from city agencies, easement transactions and construction license and access agreements.
DeNicola was selected by Super Lawyers to the Metro New York Rising Star List in 2025 in recognition of his talents and accomplishments.
DeNicola is a member of the New York City and Nassau County Bar Associations and has contributed articles to several publications, such as the Nassau Lawyer.