Practice Areas - Personal Injury
- Automobile Negligence
- Auto Accidents
- Trucking Accidents
- Bus Accidents
- Motorcycle Accidents
- Bicycle Accidents
- Boating Accidents
- Pedestrian Injuries
- Animal Attacks
- Dog Bites
- Catastrophic Injuries
- Head Injury
- Brain Injury
- Spinal Injury
- Severe Burns
- Electrical Injury
- Slip and Fall
- Whiplash
- Wrongful Death
- Medical Malpractice
- Failure to Diagnose
- Nursing Malpractice
| - Occupational Injuries
- Wrong Site Surgery
- Industrial Accidents
- Products Liability
- Automotive Products Liability
- Lemon Law
- Product Recall
- Product Failure
- Product Safety
- Heavy Equipment Products Liability
- Gas Explosions
- Railroad Law
- FELA
- Railroad Crossing Accidents
- Railroad Litigation
- Railroad Liability
- Railroad Safety
- Railroad Derailments
- Negligence
- Premises Liability
- Torts
- Mass Torts
- Toxic Torts and Trial Practice
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| University | St. Bonaventure University, B.A., cum laude, 1972 |
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| Law School | St. Mary's University of San Antonio, J.D., 1975 |
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| Admitted | 1975, Texas and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; 1977, U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas; 1979, U.S. Supreme Court; 1981, New York and U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York; 1984, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1986, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York |
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| Memberships | State Bar of Texas; New York State (Member, Executive Committee, Trial Lawyers Section) Bar Association; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Charter Member, President's Club); Million Dollar Advocates Forum; American Board of Trial Advocates. |
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| Military | With U.S. Air Force, 1967-1970 |
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| Born | Oneonta, New York, April 4, 1947 |
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| Biography | Delta Theta Phi (Dean, 1974-1975). Member: Order of the Barristers; Melvin Belli Society. Winner, Justice James Novell Moot Court Competition. Listed in, Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities. Recipient, Delta Theta Phi Scholarship Award. Member, St. Mary's Law Journal. Selected to be Honored: Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers; Best Lawyers in America. Listed in New York Magazine (August, 2005 and July, 2006) section on New York's Best Lawyers. Author: "The Positional Risk Doctrine," 6 St. Mary's Law Journal; "The Supreme Court of Texas Clarifies the Applicable Defenses in Products Liability," 40 Texas Bar Journal, September, 1977; "An Analysis of Products Liability Defense in the Aftermath of Hopkins," 9 St. Mary's Law Journal, 1977; "Rights of Public Employees, The Leopagator Syndrome," ATLA National Convention Manual 1980; "Contributory Negligence in a Strict Liability Case: The Ghost Still Walks," 15 Trial Lawyers Forum 29, 1980. Co-Author: "Comparative Causation in Product Liability Actions - No Need to Interject Contributing Negligence," 45 Texas Bar Journal, January, 1982 (Awarded Texas Bar Foundation Journal Finalist Award for Literary Excellence); "A Safe Place to Work: Actions Under F.E.L.A.," 17 Trial Lawyers Quarterly 62, 1986; "Auto Product Liability: Defective Door Latch," 36 Am. Jur. Trials 339, 1988; "New York Motor Vehicle Accidents," James Publishing Company, Sept. 1999. Instructor, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, National College of Advocacy, 1979-1980, 1983-1984. Speaker, 51st Melvin Belli Seminar, 1994; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America National Convention, 1986; NYS Bar Association, 1989, 1995. (Managing Partner)
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| Reported Cases | Emig v. Electrolux Home Products Inc., 2008 WL 4200988 (S.D.N.Y.); Beneway v. Superwinch, Inc., 216 F.Supp.2d 24 (N.D.N.Y. 2002); Pesce v. General Motors Corp., 939 F.Supp. 160 (N.D.N.Y. 1996); Denny v. Ford Motor Co., 87 NY2d 248 (1995); 79 F.3d 12 (2d Cir 1996); Gonzales v. Caterpillar Tractor Co., 22 Tex.SupJ. 23 (1978). |
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| ISLN | 904010853 |
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