Practice Areas - Professional Liability
- Health Care Law
- Products Liability
- Commercial Litigation
| - Toxic Torts
- Insurance Coverage
- Insurance Regulation
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| University | University of Notre Dame, B.A., with honors, 1973 |
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| Law School | State University of New York at Buffalo, J.D., 1977 |
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| Admitted | 1978, New York, U.S. District Court, Western, Northern, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, First and Second Circuits |
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| Memberships | Erie County and New York State (Member and General Awards Committee Chair, Torts, Insurance and Compensation Law Section) Bar Associations; Defense Research Institute. |
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| Born | 1951 |
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| Biography | Distinguished Alumnus Award, Buffalo Law Review, 2007; Super lawyer 2007 - 2010 for Personal Injury Defense Products; John Leech Award, New York State Bar Association Torts, Insurance and Compensation Law Section, 2004. Author: "Anatomy of a Legal Malpractice Action" New York State Bar Association, March 2009; "Litigating to Win Through Advanced Trial Advocacy" National Business Institute, December 2008; "Medicolegal Issues I" Harvard Medical School, Advances in Cytology Program Faculty, June 2008; "Legal Ethics: Solutions to the Most Common Challenges" National Business Institute, December 2007; "Medicolegal Issues and The Pap Smear" Harvard Medical School, Advances in Cytology Program Faculty, June 2007; "A Primer to Strict Products Liability and Risk Management" NanoDynamics Headquarters, June 2007; "Strategies to Reduce Becoming Involved in U.S.-Based Litigation" Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters Association, May 2007; "Risk Management for Attorneys: How to Stay Out of Your Lawyer's Office" New York State Bar Association, October 2005; "Cervical Cancer Screening in the HPV Era: What is the Standard of Care?" American Society for Clinical Pathology, October 2005; "To Err is Human: Legal Implications of Errors in Cytology" Florida State Society of Cytology John Frost Memorial Annual Meeting, August 2004; "Everything You Wanted to Know About Legal Malpractice and Attorney Grievance, But Hopefully Will Never Need to Use" Erie Institute of Law, November 2003; "Legal Issues and the Pap Smear" Harvard Medical School, Advances in Cytology Program Faculty, June 2003; "Law Firm Risk Management" Legal Malpractice Program for New York State Bar Association, March 2003; "The Pap Smear on Trial: Seeking a Rational Approach to Adjudicating the Standard of Care in GYN Cytology" Alabama Association of Pathologists Conference, November 2002. Member: University at Buffalo Law School, The State University of New York, Dean's Advisory Council; Chair, 2008 Annual Fund Committee.
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| Reported Cases | Represents commercial laboratories with professional liability issues; Represents product manufacturers with product liability issues. |
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| ISLN | 905017813 |
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