Best Lawyers in New York, United States for Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
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Mike focuses on litigation involving high exposure and value civil cases involving toxic exposures, motor vehicle accidents, products liability, commercial disputes, labor law claims and construction accidents, premises liability, medical malpractice, and mass torts and industry-wide litigation. He represents Honeywell International, which named Harris Beach a Go-To Law Firm® for torts litigation in the In-House Law Departments at the Top 500 Companies as published by Corporate Counsel. M...
Grant Esposito focuses his trial and arbitration practice on complex commercial litigation, including accountants’ liability, intellectual property, product liability, and securities law. Mr. Esposito has particular expertise in representing clients in the life sciences and professional-services industries in the United States, Canada, and Europe. A former Chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Litigation Department, he also advises on litigation management and business development is...
Laurie Styka Bloom represents clients in complex and commercial litigation as well as environmental based litigation claims. What do you focus on? I use my 30 years of litigation and environmental law experience to assist my clients in solving their disputes efficiently and effectively. My practice is focused on litigation arising out of environmental issues, such as alternative energy, cell tower siting and land use as well as commercial and products liability/personal injury issues. Environ...
Upon graduating from law school, where he received the Most Outstanding Advocate Award, Steve became a member of the U.S. Navy's Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG Corps). He served as a prosecutor and later became the lead prosecutor at Mayport Naval Station in Mayport, Florida, which involved his supervising other attorneys and their support staff in addition to trying cases. As a prosecutor, he handled some of the Navy's most high profile cases and tried over seventy cases to verdict. He ...
David Cohen works as science counsel in the defense of product liability and mass tort litigation. Building upon his early success at the fen-phen Daubert hearing in Philadelphia federal district court, David has spent the past two decades battling junk science allegations of general and specific causation, design defect, and failure to warn. He has cross examined more than 125 treating physicians and expert witnesses at deposition and evidentiary hearings. His team at Butler Snow includes la...
Dartmouth College AB 1982 cum laude with distinction in Gov't Boston University JD 1986 I began my career in the litigation dept at Palmer and Dodge in Boston, Massachusetts until I returned home to Syracuse in 1989 to work trying cases at Smith Sovik. I became a partner in 1992 and Managing Partner in 2005. I have tried over 100 cases to verdict in many different practice areas including medical and professional malpractice, legal malpractice, labor law/personal injury, product liability, co...
John F. Queenan is a Partner in the Firm’s Commercial Litigation; Compliance, Investigations & White Collar; Directors & Officers Liability; and Health Services Practice Groups. He regularly appears before state and federal trial courts, appellate courts and administrative agencies (disciplinary, licensing and audit matters). John also counsels and represents clients in internal inquiries and actions relating to internal peer review processes, including evaluating, modifying, li...
Daniel S. Ratner has been an appellate lawyer for 35 years. He has briefed and argued more than 350 reported civil and criminal appeals in the United States Courts of Appeals, the New York Court of Appeals, the Connecticut Supreme Court, and the state intermediate appellate courts. He regularly appears in New York’s Appellate Division, First and Second Departments. His appeals often involve multi-million-dollar claims and judgments, and he has tackled a variety of procedural and substan...
Vino Jayaraman is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants and Product Liability Litigation - Defendants. Vino, who practices law in New York, New York, has been recognized since 2024. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Vino is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
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