Honors and Awards:

• While a member of Brooklyn Law School's Moot Court program, selected to the National Team.
• Received Brooklyn Law School's American Jurisprudence Awards for Legal Writing, Appellate Advocacy.
• Earned the highest (AV) rating among attorneys by Martindale-Hubbell's Peer Review Ratings Service.

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Volunteers as judge for annual Moot Court competition.
• Served as chairman of the New York County Lawyers Association's  Young Lawyers Section and founded its highly successful mentoring program. 
• 2003 - present  New York County Lawyers' Association  Group Mentoring Program  twice yearly.  Topics include "Trial Techniques for Beginners", "Preparing a Trial Notebook".

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Faculty NYCLA CLE Institute  "Blueprint for Building Your Practice"  A Conference for solo and small firm practitioners
• 2008  New York City Bar Center for CLE Faculty for "The Growing Trend of Mediating Medical Malpractice Cases--What You Need to Know"  
• Newsday Opinion piece, November 26,  2007    "Malpractice award caps add harm"
• June 13, 2007 Wrote for "Outside Counsel,"  New York Law Journal "Frye's Applicability to Medical Malpractice Cases"  
• 2007 Institute for Paralegal Education Faculty    "Trial Preparation from Start to Finish for Paralegals--Successfull Techniques for Using Evidence and Exhibits."
• 2007  CLE  Faculty   "Gaining the Best Settlement in Auto Injury Cases"
• 2003 - present  New York County Lawyers' Association  Group Mentoring Program  twice yearly.  Topics include "Trial Techniques for Beginners", "Preparing a Trial Notebook".
• Authored a chapter on trial preparation and strategy for "Inside the Minds:  Representing Plaintiffs in Personal Injury Cases"  Leading Lawyers on Managing Discovery, Preparing Witnesses, and Presenting the Plaintiff’s Case., Author, Successful Strategies for Personal Injury Representation: From Managing Expectations to Winning Over a Jury, Aspatore Press--Thomson Reuters, 2011

Verdicts and Settlements:

• Verdict $8,200,000:  False Arrest--Excessive Use of Force--Witness to car accident involving police vehicle arrested and beaten--blindness in one eye   Kings  Supreme Court, Judge Marsha L. Steinhardt  case 14124/95  , 1999
• Settlement $2,650,000 :  Medical malpractice--childbirth--failure to diagnose fetal distress--brain damage  case number 14450/99  Bronx Supreme Court, 2002
• Settlement $4,500,000:  Medical Malpractice--Childbirth--Failure to perform Caesarean in preeclamptic mother--spastic quadriplegia   Bronx Supreme Court case 15290/00  Date of settlement 6/5/02, 2002
• Settlement $2,650,000:  Medical Malpractice --Childbirth-- Failure to Diagnose Fetal Distress-- Brain Damage  Bronx Supreme Court case no 14450/99. Date of settlement 5/6/02.  Child, age four at trial, suffers from cerebral palsy, severe brain damage. He cannot communicate verbally and requires care in daily life activities., 2002
• Settlement $239,000:  Lingual nerve damaged during wisdom tooth extraction. Nassau Supreme Court case number 19153/00., 2003
• Settlement $2,500,000:  Plaintiff claimed that doctor failed to refer patient to hospital,  Bronx Supreme Court case number 26292/00, 2003
• Settlement $750,000:  Unspotted occlusion led to amputation, patient claimed--delayed diagnosis  Westchester Supreme Court case number 8372/02, 2004
• Settlement $350,000:  Medical malpractice--Delayed Diagnosis-patient history caused doctors to misdiagnose heart attack   Kings Supreme Court, Judge:  Marsha L. Steinhardt No 350/04, 2005
• Settlement $1,400,000:  Undiagnosed infection blamed for respiratory distress, death Bronx Supreme Court case number 14546/00, 14257/01  Judge:  Douglas E. McKeon, 2005
• Settlement $500,000:  Medical malpractice--childbirth--birth injury.  Vaginal delivery led to infant's palsy, mother claimed    Kings Supreme Court case number 24365/02, 2005
• Medical malpractice/wrongful death.  $1.2 million settlement in the case of a 49-year old married woman who died after excessive hemorrhage into her abdominal wall following breast augmentation and tummy tuck surgery.  Suffolk Supreme Court  14702/2009, 2010
• $13 million settlement for a 46 year old union capenter who fell from a scaffold into an uncovered stairwell.  A plank supporting the scaffold snapped, causing him to lose his balance and fall 40 feet. As a result of his fall, he fractured his vertebra at the T 11-12 level and is now paraplegic.  New York Supreme Court  116261/2008, 2010
• $1.96 million settlement for a 17 year old boy who was rendered paraplegic after striking his head on the bottom of a swimming pool that was defectively designed and installed. Nassau Supreme Court 13021/2006, 2010

Educational Background:

• Graduate, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, B.S. Degree.  Brooklyn Law School.  Received American Jurisprudence Awards in Legal Writing and Appellate Advocacy.  Active in Brooklyn Law School's Moot Court program; selected to the National Team.