| Biography | One of the firm's senior trial attorneys, Brian focuses on individuals injured by medical malpractice, automobile accidents, defective products and defective premises. To enhance his understanding of these injuries and their impact on the injured individual's life, he has attended anatomy lectures and courses, including complete dissection of a human cadaver. He has also attended autopsies and surgeries done by medical school faculty. As one of the most respected attorneys in Rochester, Brian has been elected to the American College of Trial Lawyers and has been awarded Martindale-Hubbell's highest rating. In addition, Brian is honored to be listed in The Best Lawyers in America's medical malpractice law, personal injury and product liability litigation sections. Upon graduation from Syracuse University College of Law in 1977, Brian accepted a judicial clerkship at the New York State Appellate Division for the Fourth Department. After his clerkship, he joined the Litigation Department of the Rochester-based law firm of Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle (now Nixon Peabody), where he was named a partner. He left the firm in 1994, to join Hallenbeck, Lascell, Norris & Zorn. In 1997, he joined Faraci Lange as a partner to focus exclusively on representing injured individuals. Since joining the firm, Brian has obtained numerous substantial recoveries that have helped injured individuals and their families cope with the impact of their injuries. Brian is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, the American Association for Justice, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and the Monroe County Bar Association. He has served on numerous Monroe County Bar Association committees, including the Academy of Law, Judiciary, Communications (member and chair), Litigation Counsel (co-chair), Deaf Access Task Force and Joint Monroe County Bar Association/Monroe County Medical Society Task Force, and the State Courts Subcommittee (chair). Brian is an active member of the community. He served on the Town of Victor Growth Management Committee. He also serves on the Outer Loop Theatre Board of Directors. For many years, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the National Kidney Foundation's Upstate New York Affiliate, and served as its Vice-President and President, and on its Executive, Finance, and Development committees, among others. Brian has also served at the national level on numerous committees of the National Kidney Foundation, including the Affiliate Relations Committee (Chair for last two years), the Efficiency and Effectiveness Task Force, the Subcommittee to Evaluate Affiliate Share, and the Task Force to Evaluate Performance Standards for Affiliates. He is a long-standing member of the Volunteer Legal Services Project Board of Directors, where he has served as Vice-President and President. He has also chaired numerous committees and currently chairs VLSP's Nominating Committee. Brian has co-authored a chapter on New York law in A.I.A. Insurance and Tort Law Reference and has participated in and chaired numerous legal education programs and seminars for other attorneys on medical malpractice, product liability and other aspects of personal injury law. Justinian Society. Listed In, Personal Injury Law Section, "The Best Lawyers in America," Judicial Clerkship, New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, 4th Department, 1977-1978. |