Attorney Profile

David B. Golomb

David Golomb

Law Offices of David B. Golomb
230 Park Avenue, Suite 527
New York, NY 10169
Contact Contact David B. Golomb
T: 212-661-9000
F: 212-661-6181
Practice areas: Personal Injury Plaintiff: General (70%), Personal Injury Plaintiff: Medical Malpractice (20%), Personal Injury Plaintiff: Products (10%)
Languages Spoken: English, French, Spanish

Profile

David B. Golomb is a Past President of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association (1999-2000). He has been in practice for 35 years, for the past 22 as principal of the Law Offices of David B. Golomb in Manhattan. His practice concentrates on complex negligence matters, including death and catastrophic injuries from medical and professional malpractice, construction incidents, highway design, automobile incidents, product liability and on behalf of sexual abuse victims and disability insurance claimants. He has obtained more than three dozen million-dollar verdicts and settlements, including the highest individual personal injury settlement ever against the City of New York ($9,500,000), for a 35-year-old hotel executive left paraplegic because of a defective highway bridge; the highest verdict ever in New York State ($20,000,000) for a victim in a flammable fabric product liability case and two of the highest recoveries ever for Brachial Plexus (Erb's Palsy) birth-malpractice-related injuries. He was one of the founders and a member of the Board of Directors of Trial Lawyers Care, the non-profit corporation established by the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) and NYSTLA to provide free attorney representation throughout the country to all victims of September 11. He is currently serving his sixth term on the Board of Governors of the American Association for Justice (formerly ATLA) and served three terms as a member of its Executive Committee. Before entering civil litigation, he was a public defender in Manhattan with the Legal Aid Society's Criminal Defense Division; a Special Assistant Attorney General prosecuting nursing home and Medicaid fraud under Charles "Joe" Hynes; and an assistant to Nicholas Scoppetta in the Office of the N.Y.C. Deputy Mayor for Criminal Justice. He lectures extensively and frequently to lawyers and judges, in New York and nationally, on medical malpractice issues, trial strategy, modern techniques of demonstrative evidence and deposition practice.  He has sat on NYSTLA's Executive Committee for 15 years, and is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; American Inns of Court; American Board of Trial Advocates; N.Y.S. Bar Association; Metropolitan Women's Bar Association; and Trial Lawyers for Public Justice. He is married to the former Lisa Ann Cutler, has two children, Danielle (22) and Jesse (16), and resides in Scarsdale, NY.

Selected to:

New York Super Lawyers 2009 - Metro
New York Super Lawyers 2008 - Metro
New York Super Lawyers 2007 - Metro
New York Super Lawyers 2006 - Metro

About David Golomb

Admitted: 1975, New York

Honors and Awards: AV rating, Martindale-Hubbell 1984-to date; Who's Who in American Law 1985, et seq., Trial Lawyer of the Year, UJA, 2004
Bar/Professional Activity: Sustaining Member, American Association for Justice (formerly Association of Trial Lawyers of America) 1989-to date; Sustaining Member, N.Y.S. Trial Lawyers Association 1980-to date; Member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York 1983-date; Member, N.Y.S. Bar Association 1984-to date; Member, Roscoe Pound Foundation 1991-to date; Member, Public Justice Foundation, 1991-to date; Member, Brooklyn Bar Association 1988-to date; Member, N.Y. County Lawyers Association 1977-to date
Pro bono/Community Service: Co-Founder and Board of Directors of Trial Lawyers Care, largest pro bono effort in history of the legal profession, which represented family and survivors of 9/11 attacks without charge before Federal compensation program.
Verdicts and Settlements: Klingner v. Mashioff, Supreme Court, Queens County, Index No.: 015776/05 [$1,950,000 settlement for death of 64-year-old man after kidney stone removal; November 2008]. Nunez v. Levy, Supreme Court, New York County, Index No.: 114538/2003 [$10,000,000 verdict for demolition laborer whose leg was crushed and later amputated; March 2007]. Malloy v. Stellar Management, Supreme Court, New York County, Index No.: 109054/05 [$3,259,744 verdict for elevator mechanic who suffered disabling back injuries as a result of an on-the-job incident; February 2008]. Tipaldo v. The City of New York, Supreme Court, Kings County, Index No.: 4209/2001 [Highest personal injury settlement ever against the City of New York, $9,500,000 on behalf of 35 year-old hotel executive left paraplegic from motor vehicle collision caused by highway design defect; March 2006] Cantrell v. New York University, 326 F.Supp 2d 468 (S.D.N.Y. 2004) [$4,000,000 settlement in federal False Claims Act qui tam action, established precedent that each invoice, grant application, progress report and financial report may support a claim under the False Claims Act]. Weigl v. Quincy Specialties Co., 1 A.D.3d 132, 766 N.Y.S.2d 428 (1st Dept. 11/6/03) [Unanimous affirmance of post-trial judgment in the principal amount of $7,992,084; highest judgment in New York State history in a flammable fabrics action or for burn injuries]. Weigl v. Quincy Specialties Co., 190 Misc.2d 1, 735 N.Y.S.2d 729 (Sup. Ct., N.Y. Cnty, Marcy Friedman, J., 2001) [Post-trial decision in product liability action resulting in $20,000,000 jury verdict in favor of burn victim, highest verdict in New York State history for a flammable fabrics action or for burn injuries].  Klos v. N.Y.C. Transit Authority, 240 A.D.2d 635, 659 N.Y.S.2d 97 (2nd Dept. 1997) [Wrongful death construction-site action, $4,500,000 verdict]. Campbell v. Fine, Olin & Anderson, P.C., 168 Misc.2d 305, 642 N.Y.S.2d 819 (Sup. Ct., N.Y. Cnty., David Saxe, J., 1996) [$1,000,000 recovery in legal malpractice action where workers' compensation attorney failed to advise client of all possible claims].
Educational Background: B.A., Cornell University, 1970

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