Bar/Professional Activity:

• District of Columbia, 1991
• U.S. District Court Western District of New York, 1994
• U.S. District Court Northern District of New York, 1992
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 1992
• U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1990
• U.S. District Court District of New Jersey, 1989
• New Jersey, 1989
• New York, 1989

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Lecturer: "Products Liability", New York State Bar Association, Spring 1997
• Lecturer: "Preparing Plaintiff's Expert in the Post Kumho Era", "Products Liability Post-Kumbo Tire: Strategy and Practice" New York State Bar Association, Trial Lawyers Section, Fall 1999
• Lecturer and Panelist: "What they continue to do Wrong: The Mistakes Repeatedly Made by Plaintiffs' and Defendants' Counsel", Emerging issues in Motor Vehicle Product Liability Litigation, American Bar Association, Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, Scottsdale, Arizona, Spring 2000
• Co-Chair and Lecturer: "Sweating the Small Stuff: The Basics on Motions, Objections and Discovery", New York State Bar Association, Trial Lawyers Section, Spring 2000
• Overall Planning Co-Chair and NYC Co-Chair: "Do or Die: The Vital Aspects of Your Case", New York State Bar Association, Trial Lawyers Section, Spring 2001
• Lecturer and Panelist: "Practical Skills Basic Tort and Insurance Law Practice", New York State Bar Association, Spring 2001.
• NYC Local Chair and Lecturer: "How to Try Damages", New York State Bar Association, Trial Lawyers Section, Fall 2002
• Lecturer and Panelist with Arthur Miller: "Discovery & Depositions", New York Law Journal & The National Law Journal, Litigation Summit & Exposition, Fall 2002.
• Lecturer and Panelist: "Sources of Evidence: All That You Leave Behind", Third Annual BNA Litigation Forum, "Electronic Discovery & Document Retention 2003", The Princeton Club, Spring 2003.
• Lecturer and Panelist: "What they continue to do Wrong: The Mistakes Repeatedly Made by Plaintiffs' and Defendants' Counsel", Emerging issues in Motor Vehicle Product Liability Litigation, American Bar Association, Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, Scottsdale, Arizona, Spring 2004
• Lecturer and Panelist: "What they continue to do Wrong: The Mistakes Repeatedly Made by Plaintiffs' and Defendants' Counsel", Emerging issues in Motor Vehicle Product Liability Litigation, American Bar Association, Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, Scottsdale, Arizona, Spring 2007
• Overall Planning Chair, NYC Chair and Lecturer: "Auto Insurance: Uninsured, Underinsured and Accident Litigation", Lorman Education Services, Spring 2007
• Overall Planning Chair, NYC Chair and Lecturer: "Construction Site Accidents: The Law and the Trial", New York State Bar Association, Trial Lawyers Section, Fall 2007
• Panelist, "Litigation Strategies in Personal Injury Cases - Plaintiff's Point of View", Queens County Bar Association, Spring 2008
• Overall Planning Chair, NYC Chair and Lecturer: "Auto Insurance: Uninsured, Underinsured and Accident Litigation", Lorman Education Services, Spring 2008
• Lecturer: "Emerging Issues In Premises Liability Litigation", American Bar Association, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, Fall 2009.
• Overall Planning Chair, NYC Chair and Lecturer: "Construction Site Accidents", New York State Bar Association, Trial Lawyers Section, Fall 2009

Verdicts and Settlements:

• $700,000 in New York County for the death of a woman following gastric bypass surgery.
• $700,000 against a major foreign tire manufacturer for the wrongful death of an older unemployed Brooklyn man.
• $750,000 for a Queens County woman that suffered a drop foot due to a perineal nerve injury suffered during spinal surgery.
• $795,000 for an infant injured at birth sustaining an Erb's palsy in upstate, New York.
• $1,000,000 for an illegal immigrant who lost two fingers in a mattress cutting machine.
• $1,200,000 on behalf of a middle aged man who suffered a bowel perforation during a colon resection at a major Manhattan hospital and required further surgery and a colostomy for a period of time.
• $1,200,000 for a Bronx construction worker who sustained a fractured talus after falling from a ladder. He never had surgery.
• $1,250,000 for a Nassau County physician that sustained a traumatic brain injury in an auto accident.
• $1,400,000 for a Suffolk County man that sustained leg fractures after being hit by an SUV at a nightclub in the Hamptons.
• $1,500,000 (full policy limits) for the family of two elderly parents killed when they were run over on a Queens County street.
• $1,500,000 in Bronx County against a major beverage manufacturer when its truck struck a young student crossing a street in Jersey City.
• $1,550,000 against New Jersey Transit for a woman hit by their bus which left the scene and was found by forensic evidence.
• $1,550,000 for a single male killed in a Swiss Air plane crash.
• $1,600,000 for a New York County 74-year-old woman whose lung cancer was undiagnosed but appeared in a routine chest x-ray.
• $1,675,000 for the family of an older man killed on an American Airlines flight.
• $1,850,000 in Nassau County for an unbelted passenger involved in a roll-over collision.
• $2,000,000 to the wife of a 76-year-old Bronx man who died after spinal surgery as a result of fluid deprivation.
• $2,000,000 in Bronx County for an 8 year old boy that lost vision in his eye as a result of a defectively manufactured toy mirror.
• $2,025,000 in Kings County for a construction worker who lost parts of his fingers when his hand was caught in an unguarded opening of a flatbed truck.
• $2,150,000 in Nassau County for a prostate cancer patient that developed a fistula after a radical prostatectomy.
• $2,200,000 in Westchester County for a woman that sustained an eye injury in an auto accident after she was hit by the air bag.
• $2,400,000 on behalf of the widow of an unemployed 39 year old man who died after a Uvuloplasty when the nurse failed to follow the doctors instructions to properly monitor the patients oxygen saturation.  The nurse claimed that the doctor’s orders were unclear.
• $2,250,000 for the New York County family of an older man whose heart condition was misdiagnosed resulting in his death.
• $2,500,000 in Federal Court in North Carolina for a college student who sustained a leg fracture and severe post-traumatic stress disorder after the commuter plane she was on crashed.
• $2,500,000 in Bronx County for a carpenter that fell from a rolling scaffold and sustained fractures of his spine.
• $2,650,000 for a married woman with no children who was killed in an American Airlines crash.
• $2,950,000 for a woman who fell from a scaffold and sustained serious injuries which resulted in infection and death.
• $3,025,000 against Long Island Bus and The County of Nassau for a 9 year old boy with Down Syndrome who’s mother was killed as she carried him across a Hempstead intersection when a bus collided with an suv that had run a red light.  The bus driver and the municipal bus company were found liable (along with suv operator) and are responsible to pay the entire judgment.
• $3,500,000 in Suffolk County for the family of a DEA agent killed when the cesspool at his home collapsed.
• $3,700,000 for an infant injured at birth.
• $3,800,000 for an Ulster County baby that sustained a skull fracture at birth as a result of improper use of forceps.
• $4,000,000 for a construction worker who suffered burns after falling into a pit of scalding water.
• $4,000,000 for a Kings County man who was admitted to the emergency room after a bar fight and had sustained an undiagnosed subdural hematoma.
• $4,500,000 for victims of a defective diet drug.
• $4,850,000 for a Kings County infant injured at birth as a result of fetal distress.
• $5,000,000 to the widow of a Citibank employee who was killed in a plane crash in Brazil. The case was brought in New York against the foreign airline and the plane manufacturer.
• $5,000,000 for a Kings County construction worker who fell from a roof after it collapsed in Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn.
• $5,000,000 in New York County for the widow of a physician struck and killed by an N.Y.P.D. tow truck while he was riding his bike on the Green Way on the West Side when the truck made a right turn on to the path and crashed into him. The decedant was not wearing a helmet.
• $5,995,000 for a young boy in New York County who sustained a brain injury as a result of a pharmacy error in a case involving total parenteral nutrition (TPN) which was mixed with 10 times too much dextrose and which was delivered to the child's home by an out of state pharmacy and administered by a private duty nurse.
• $6,000,000 in Bergen County, New Jersey in a combination motor vehicle accident/medical malpractice case for a 61 year old woman who sustained a herniated disc as a passenger in a motor vehicle accident. She subsequently underwent a neurosurgical procedure to remove the herniated disc during which the surgeon slipped and lacerated the dura of her spinal cord.
• $6,100,000 for a Dutchess County medical malpractice case involving the death of a woman after giving birth to triplets. After the birth the decedants internal bleeding was not diagnosed.
• $7,000,000 for a 68 year old man who was struck by a Town of Parsipanny bus that turned into him while he was crossing the street. The Judge stated that he believes this was the highest settlement ever in any case he has handled in the last 20 years in Morris County N.J.
• $7,000,000 for the family of a retired widow struck and killed by a truck.
• $8,500,000 for a baby brain-damaged at birth as a result of fetal distress.
• $16,000,000 for a construction worker asbestos handler who fell 23 feet from a scaffold at a Pepsi Bottling plant and suffered brain damage.
• $10,000,000 for a woman that was struck at the Hempstead bus terminal and had bilateral leg amputations.
• $10,775,000 for a woman who sustained a brain injury after she was struck by two tires which came off of a moving tractor trailer.
• $12,500,000 for a parking garage employee crushed to death by the man lift he had been standing on.
• $26,000,000 settlement for a pedestrian struck by a truck in a personal injury action. The decedant was a research analyst at a well regarded brokerage firm who was on her way to work when the truck made a right turn striking her while she was walking in the cross walk.
• $100,000,000 recovery for the families of 9/11 victims.