| Biography | Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010. Named New York Best Lawyers Product Liability Litigator of the Year for 2011. Listed, Super Lawyers; Listed in Law Dragon, 500 Leading Lawyers in America; Recipient, New York State Trial Lawyers Civil Justice 2006 Honor Award. Order of the Barristers. Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Criminal Procedure and Constitutional Law. Author: "Proving Medical Malpractice by a Physician Who Performs Elective Plastic Surgery," Medical Malpractice Law and Strategy, Vol. XX, No. 2, December 2002; "Presentation of Damages in a Personal Injury Case - The Plaintiff's Perspective," NYSBA, Trial Lawyers Section Digest, 2002; "Proving Dental Malpractice in a Case of Osteoradionecrosis Following Tooth Extraction," Medical Malpractice Law & Strategy Vol. XIX, No.8, June 2002; Author: "Orthopedic Malpractice: Failure to Diagnose Injury to Popliteal Artery," Medical Malpractice Law & Strategy, Vol. XVIII, No. 9, 2001; Contributing Author: "Controversies in Surgery," Vol. 4, Springer-Verlag, 2001; Overall Planning Co-Chair, "Do or Die: The Vital Aspects of Your Case," New York State Bar Association, 2001; Co-Chair, New York, "Sweating the Small Stuff - The Basics of Motions, Objections and Discovery," New York State Bar Association, 2000; "Is It Necessarily Malpractice: Failure to Revise Shunt in Hydrocephalus Patient," Medical Malpractice Law and Strategy, Vol. XVI, No. 5, March, 1999. Co-Author with Howard S. Hershenhorn, "Combat Culpable Conduct Defense by the Defendant's Design Engineer," in Leader's Product Liability Law and Strategy, Vol. XVII, No. 12, June 1999; "Preparing Plaintiff's Expert in the Post Kuhmo Era," New York State Bar Association, 1999; "New Frontier in Products Liability," New York Law Journal, September 16, 1996. Co-Author: with Warren J. Willinger, "Obtaining Surveillance Films in Personal Injury Cases," Trial Lawyers Quarterly, 20:4. Contributing Author: "Personal Injury Litigation Under the Safe Place to Work Statutes," New York State Bar Association, 1991. Contributing Author and Lecturer: "Personal Injury Litigation-Workplace Related Injuries," New York State Bar Association, 1993. Contributing Author and Lecturer: "Construction Site Accidents: The Law and the Trial," New York State Bar Association, 2007, 2008; "Construction Site Accidents," New York State Bar Association, 2009, 2010. Co-Author with Rhonda Kay: "Culpable Conduct/Comparative Fault Issues as Applicable to a Products Liability Case," in Products Liability in New York, Strategy and Practice, New York State Bar Association, 1997. Author: "Prosecuting a Case of Failure to Diagnose Compartment Syndrome," in Medical Malpractice Law and Strategy, Vol. XV, No. 12, Oct., 1998; "Cosmetic Surgical Malpractice: Loss of Vision following Blepharoplasty," Medical Malpractice Law and Strategy, 2000. Author: "Chemotherapy: Failure to Properly Treat Extravasations of Doxorubicin," in Medical Malpractice Law and Strategy, Vol. XVIII, No.10 Aug., 2000. Co-Author: "Recalcitrant Worker and Sole Proximate Cause-The Current State of Labor Law Section 240," New York State Bar Association Trial Lawyers Section Digest, Fall 2008. Consulting Editor, Medical Malpractice Law and Strategy (1998-2006). Member, Board of Directors, Long Island University Alumni Association, 1983. Member, Board of Directors, Thomas M. Cooley Law School 1992-2004. Lecturer, Continuing Legal Education, Fordham University School of Law, 1986-1997. Member, Medical Malpractice Panel, Supreme Court, Kings County, 1985-1991, Bronx County, 1989-1991. |