UNIONDALE, NY-A Long Island law firm has expanded its space at RXR Realty’s the Omni, a 639,302-square-foot office property located at 333 Earle Ovington Blvd. here.

Brian Sahn, a partner in the Real Estate Practice Group at Forchelli, Curto, Deegan, Schwartz, Mineo, Cohn & Terrana LLP tells GlobeSt.com that the move was necessitated by growth at the firm, whose practice areas include land use and zoning and employment and labor law.

“We’ve been expanding our practice areas and our roster of attorneys and we have taken in several new attorneys since the fall of 2011 going into the beginning of 2012, but in addition, when we negotiated our lease for the 35,000 square feet, we negotiated certain expansion rights on the floor and those became available to us during the course of 2011,” Sahn says. Vacancies in the building allowed the firm to take advantage of those rights.

Now, in addition to the 35,000 square feet it currently occupies, the firm will take an additional 7,200 square feet of space. Sahn says that due to the time left on its current lease, which runs to May 2020, RXR was agreeable to give them “very good terms on the expansion.”

Sahn and firm partner John Terrana worked on the expansion plans, repped by Ted Stratigos of Cushman & Wakefield’s Long Island office, who also worked on the original lease. According to a spokesman, RXR Realty was represented in-house.

Still growing, the firm has 46 attorneys in their office at the Omni. Managing partner Jeffrey Forchelli said in a prepared statement that the additional 7,200 square-foot expansion would accommodate 19 additional attorneys and would take up nearly the entire top floor.