Professional Profile

Summary:

Trial Counsel with over 150 jury verdicts (as “first chair”) in New York and others jurisdictions. As well as over 100 asylum trials.

Professional experience:

Extensive trial experience in both state and federal courts in New York and other jurisdictions. Litigation experience in all phases of complex civil cases, immigration practice, appeals, conducting Frye/Daubert hearings on the admissibility of expert evidence. Subject matter of litigation experience includes a wide range of practice areas including transportation litigation, professional liability, toxic torts, product liability, labor law. insurance coverage disputes. representation of medical and other allied heath care professionals before disciplinary committees, criminal courts representation in serious criminal matters.

Bar Admissions:

  • New York State; Pro Hac Vice in other States,
  • U. S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of New York; 
  • United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Circuits;
  • United States Supreme Court.

EDUCATION:

  • Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law – Juris Doctorate 1982
  • Yeshiva College B.A. Political Science 1979

memberships:

  • Diplomate of the American Board of Trial Advocates
  • Member – Defense Association of New York
  • Member – Richmond County Bar Association
  • Member – American Immigration Lawyers Association

wikipedia:

  • Listed as “prominent” trial counsel in “Forensic Biomechanics”.

PUBLICATIONS ( (New York Law Journal):

  • “The Spoliation Doctrine and Lost Medical Records”. CITED IN: Simon’s NY Rules of Prof. Conduct Section 3.4:6 “Spoliation & Electronic Evidence” 12/18 update .
  • “Winning The Biomechanical Frye Hearing”.
  • “Trial by Ambush and the Treating Physician”. CITED IN: Kish V. Graham, 40 A.D. 3d 118, 833 N.Y.S. 2d 313 (4th Dept. 2007).
  • “Requiem For The Biomechanical Frye Hearing ?”.
  • “Alice’s Law”- Waterloo For Staged Accident Fraudsters” ?

LECTURES:

  • Lecturer “Dental Records – How to Avoid Problems In Court”. 2005 Annual N. Y. Dental Meeting at Jacob Javits Center. Sponsored by the New York State Dental Society.
  • Panel lecturer at May 2018 CLE lecture: “Frye Hearings and the Use of Biomechanical Experts at Trial”. Presented by the Defense Association of New York and The NYC Chapter of American Board of Trial Advocates.
  • Panel lecturer at May 2020 CLE lecture: “The Biomechanics of Injury Causation – Traumatic Brain Injuries”. Presented by the Defense Association of New York and The NYC Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates.

LegAL volunteering:

  • Member of the New York State Medical Malpractice Panels.
  • Judge at Yale University Moot Court Competition.
  • Judge at National Student Trial Advocacy Competition.

Decisions:

  • Mueller v. Co. of West., 943 F. Supp. 357 (SDNY 1996)
  • Elkin v. Goodman, 808 N.Y.S. 2d 405 (2nd Dept. 2005)
  • Scuderi v. Indepen. Comm. Bank, 884 N.Y.S. 2d 861 (1st Dept. 2009)
  • Perez v. Gioroukos, 906 N.Y.S.2d 34 (1st Dept. 2010)
  • Martinez v. Hunts Point Coop. Inc. 914 N.Y.S. 2d 99 (1st Dept. 2010)
  • Matter of Clinton v. Board of Election in the City of New York, 151 N.Y.S. 3d 357 (1st Dept. 2021)
  • Castaneda v. Amsterco 67 LLC. 197 N.Y.S. 3d 24 (1st Dept. 2023)