Winthrop Products Liability Lawyers

To Jonathan S. Damashek, the best part of his job is being able to stand up for people who deserve their day in court. “I like fighting for the little guy against the large corporate defendants and insurance carriers to help them recover what they lost in their lives,” he says.

In this regard, Damashek seeks to recover monetary compensation for his clients that covers their past and future pain and suffering, medical expenses, lost earnings and benefits, and loss of their enjoyment of life. After graduating from New York Law School in 1997, Damashek started his career...

Joshua Pollack was selected among top attorneys in the New York Metro Area as a Super Lawyer. He was selected through a rigorous evaluation process that identifies qualified candidates by using a multi-step evaluation process that incorporates peer recognition and professional achievement.

Joshua Pollack graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 1990 and, shortly thereafter, became a trial attorney representing the City of New York. During his tenure with the City, Josh selected over 100 juries and took over 60 verdicts on cases involving all types of claims including, trip and fall accidents, auto accidents, school supervision, police misconduct, unsafe place to...

Mr. Leone is Senior Counsel at Bottar Law. He has over 30 years of experience advocating for clients with Personal Injury disputes. His practice areas include Automobile Accidents, Premises Liability and Medical Malpractice. Mr. Leone is committed to civil justice. He is dedicated to fighting for your rights and interests, focused on the best possible results.

Mr. Leone received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Cortland. In 1982, he graduated from Ohio Northern University, Pettit College of Law with a J.D. His jurisdictions include the State of New York and the United States District Court, Northern District...

Anthony Bottar is an experienced and accomplished Trial Attorney in Upstate New York. For more than 40 years, he has represented clients with legal needs including Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability. Mr. Bottar has a a track record of extraordinary recoveries for his clients, he is dedicated to the best possible outcomes.

Mr. Botar's honors include being listed in The Best Lawyers In America since 2001 and Upstate New York Super Lawyers since 2007. He has been named Best Lawyers's Syracuse Personal Injury Lawyer of the Year for multiple years. In 2018 and 2019, Mr. Bottar was listed in...

Martin Edelman began practicing law nearly 40 years ago when he joined his father, Jerome Edelman, to form Edelman & Edelman, P.C. Martin is widely recognized as one of the most tenacious and dedicated litigators in New York. He is known for taking the "impossible" cases and recovering substantial damages when other firms have insisted there was no claim.

For over thirty-five years, initially as a physician and surgeon and subsequently as an attorney representing injury victims, I have worked to help individuals overcome the physical, emotional, and financial devastation inflicted by serious injury. It is a privilege for me to represent seriously injured individuals and their families against insurance companies, corporations, companies, doctors, hospitals, and individuals who were negligent. No matter how extensive or advanced the medical treatment, an individual and his or her family is never the same after trauma alters their lives. Additionally, I am called upon to assist physicians as personal counsel in lawsuits against them,...

Vito A. Cannavo is a partner at Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo P.C. As a seasoned trial attorney, he has earned an outstanding reputation through hard work and multi-million dollar verdicts. He litigates in a wide range of practice areas, including construction accidents, nursing home abuse, and product liability.

30 Years of Experience and Proven Results

Concentrating her practice in toxic tort insurance defense, Jessica works extensively with defendants alleged to have sold "asbestos-containing components" and provides experienced legal advice to a wide range of asbestos clients. These include equipment and friction manufacturers and retailers. This work involves coordinating a team of attorneys and paralegals in managing discovery and preparing cases for trial in high volume, document intensive cases. Jessica handles all aspects of non-asbestos litigation including other product liability matters, motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, labor law injuries, coverage litigation, and dog bite claims. Jessica has tried one bench trial to a directed verdict and...

Daniel Schlanger is the managing partner at Schlanger Law Group, LLP, a consumer protection law firm focused on assisting victims of identity theft, inaccurate credit reporting and hidden lending charges. The firm’s practice includes both individual cases brought on behalf of victims, as well as class actions. We pride ourselves on sophisticated and zealous advocacy on behalf of victims of unlawful practices, and regularly go up against some of the larger businesses and law firms in the country. Mr. Schlanger is licensed in both New York and New Jersey and the firm litigates cases in New York, New Jersey...

Peter W. Yoars, Jr. is a solution-driven attorney with experience in all aspects and phases of complex civil and commercial litigation, settlements, arbitrations and mediations. Peter has vast experience with jury and non-jury trials in State and Federal courts as well as arbitrations, mediations and other forms of ADR. As trial and lead counsel, he handles engineering and construction disputes, corporate litigation, environmental law, professional liability claims, toxic torts, product liability, among other cases. Peter has made hundreds of court appearances, drafted countless pleadings, motions and other court documents, managed intricate and voluminous discovery processes, taken and defended...

James Rubinowitz is a personal injury attorney who is devoted to helping clients obtain justice after suffering catastrophic injury. Mr. Rubinowitz handles all types of cases, including those involving motor vehicle crashes, premises liability, labor law, construction injuries, medical mal practice, product liability, and wrongful death. He is involved in all stages of our clients’ litigation and is passionate about making sure our clients receive full and fair compensation for their injuries. James has assisted in numerous cases that have resulted in large verdicts and settlements, including one that resulted in a $71 million verdict for a woman that was...

Marie Ng leads one of Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo P.C.'s general negligence departments and specializes in the areas municipal liability and premises liability. She is a highly skilled attorney who fights for the rights of her clients. Contact her office today for more information.

Adam Orlow is a personal injury lawyer and partner at The Orlow Firm. He has been practicing law as a personal injury lawyer since 1998. Adam Orlow has handled personal injury cases of all types including but not limited to construction accidents, car accidents, truck accidents, motorcycle accidents, bicycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, police misconduct, sexual abuse, premises liability including slip and fall accidents, nursing home abuse, lead poisoning and third party workers compensation.

For more than 15 years, Michael Bottar has dedicated his practice to the pursuit of justice in Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Construction Accidents, and Wrongful Death matters. Mr. Bottar brings a depth of knowledge and experience to every case. He is committed to providing exceptional legal representation.

Mr. Bottar is an accomplished attorney and has received numerous honors and awards. He has been recognized by The Best Lawyers In America and named Syracuse's 2019 Lawyer of the Year for Medical Malpractice and Product Liability. The National Trial Lawyers have named him as one of the Top 100 in New York State....

Mr. Kowalenko, Esq., is a Senior Trial Attorney, specializing in personal injury/negligence litigation. This includes injuries sustained as a result of the following types of accidents: Premises liability (Slip/Trip and fall); Motor vehicle (automobiles, trucks, motorcycles); Labor Law violations or improperly manufactured or defective products. A skilled and accomplished Attorney with extensive personal injury and trial experience, aggressive advocacy skills and a history of effective and diligent representation for my clients. Mr. Kowalenko's professional portfolio includes more than 45 trials in the last 3 years alone, including a One Million ($1,000,000.00) Dollar settlement against the City of New...

Alyce Wittenstein began working at the firm in 1985 as a managing paralegal, learning all the practices and procedures of the firm from Mr. Wittenstein and the staff. From 1995-1998, she attended CUNY Law School where she made a mark as a teaching assistant for Civil Rights leader Haywood Burns. She founded a Human Rights Delegation to Haiti and studied Constitutional Law with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Working at the Equal Opportunity Employment Commision (EEOC), she learned a great deal about Employment Discrimination matters. She brought her knowledge of the Personal Injury practice and...

Scott Kagan is a New York attorney with a national practice litigating complex product liability cases in a wide array of matters, including automotive crashworthiness, consumer products and heavy machinery. Scott also handles selected catastrophic injury cases that present complex liability issues. Specifically, he handles cases involving medium and heavy trucks, motor vehicle defects and various product defects, personal injury accidents, medical malpractice, boiler and pressure vessel failures, and escalator and elevator malfunctions. He has litigated significant injury cases in New York and several out-of-state jurisdictions.

Scott has worked in personal injury litigation from both the plaintiff and defendant side, giving...

Marc D. Grossman graduated from The University of Michigan in 1989. After completing Brooklyn Law School and Baruch Business School’s J.D./M.B.A. program while interning at the Law Department of the United Nations, Mr. Grossman became an Associate and later a Partner in the law firm of Mergel, Tubman & Grossman in New York City. Mr. Grossman is also a Founding Partner of Sanders and Grossman P.C., and Baker Sanders Barshay Grossman Fass Muhlstock & Neuwirth, LLC, and a Senior Partner at Sanders, Sanders, Block, Woycik, Viener & Grossman, P.C. and Sanders Viener Grossman LLP.

Since beginning his law career in 1993,...

A skilled trial lawyer, Craig Small has been practicing law since 1995, and in the State of New York and Buffalo, New York since 1998. Craig Small's law firm, Small Law Firm, focuses its attention on representing injured people. Small Law Firm helps with injuries caused by car accidents, nursing home abuse, nursing home pressure or bed sores, fall-downs, biking, boating, and traumatic injuries including brain injuries, paralysis, fractures, and herniated discs. Craig Small has settled significant cases and has won verdicts throughout Western and Central New York. Small Law Firm is a small law firm...

Larry J. Kramer worked for Liberty Mutual Insurance Company for more than 8 years. He represented both individuals and large, multi-national corporations. During his tenure at Liberty Mutual, Mr. Kramer handled hundreds of cases involving all types of accidents and injuries. He was responsible for defending and trying a full compliment of cases. The knowledge and experience acquired while working for one of the nations largest insurance companies has ingrained an unparalleled level of insight, forethought, tactics and professionalism. Mr. Kramer knows the handling, evaluation and settlement procedures that are employed by most insurance companies. Due in large part to...

Kevin S. McDonald is primarily dedicated to the representation of Plaintiffs in cases involving life changing injuries and wrongful death, particularly those resulting from medical malpractice.

For the past 30 years, Kevin has represented clients injured through the negligence of others, virtually all in the area of medical malpractice. His track record of success is impressive by any standard. He has achieved over 30 verdicts and settlements in excess of one million dollars.

Kevin combines a scrupulous approach to the preparation of a case for trial with a firm understanding of complex legal and medical issues. He knows that cases are...

Gary Certain is a partner at the personal injury and civil rights law firm of Certain & Zilberg, PLLC. Mr. Certain has tried over a hundred cases and has obtained numerous six-figure, million and multi-million dollar awards on behalf of his products liability, personal injury, and civil rights clients. His advocacy has caused the removal and/or redesign of many unsafe and dangerous products and helped to change safety procedures and law enforcement practices and policies. Mr. Certain has received national recognition as a talented and passionate advocate, receiving recognition as a Super Lawyer and awards...

We look forward to assisting clients in all types of civil and criminal litigation. The office handles all types of accident cases. Mr. Fox is also an experienced criminal defense attorney. Our office also can assist in real estate closings and small business matters.

Joshua F. Scrivani is a litigation attorney in Tiveron Law’s Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice departments. His focus areas within the Personal Injury Department include automobile accidents, slip and fall accidents, wrongful death, dog bite incidents, and construction accidents. Before joining the firm, Mr. Scrivani worked at several local personal injury law firms. Early in his legal career, he developed his unwavering passion for helping his seriously injured clients achieve the best possible results. Joshua understands the unique hardships endured by each client and prides himself on his personal approach to every case. Mr. Scrivani grew up in the City of Buffalo...

Christopher McGrath is a partner at Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo P.C. and serves in the Garden City office. He has won many multi-million dollar verdicts for his clients in the area of personal injury. Contact him today to set up a free consultation.

Dov is a New York native, born and raised on Long Island. He earned his undergraduate degree at Queens College and his J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law. While in law school, Dov interned for the Honorable Leon Ruchelsman in Kings County Supreme Court.

Ms. Riggi's practice focuses on cases sounding in medical malpractice, workplace accident, motor vehicle, product liability, wrongful death and severe personal injury matters.

Ms. Riggi sits on the Board of Directors of the Central New York Women's Bar Association (CNYWBA), and is a CNYWBA delegate to the New York State Women's Bar Association. She also authors the 1st Department Update for the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers, and has been selected for inclusion on The National Trial Lawyers "Top 40 Under 40" list for New York.

Ms. Riggi is a graduate of Siena College, magna cum laude,...

Robert Sullivan is a senior partner of Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo P.C. and one of the country's top trial lawyers. For over 40 years he has tried major cases and expanded the law of negligence. If you need a firm with an unparalleled reputation in New York, contact his office today.

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Evan Goldberg is a respected trial attorney and Past President of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association. With his grandfather having been an attorney and his father a former Supreme Court Justice, Mr. Goldberg has continued his family's tradition of service during his exclusive representation of accident victims for more than thirty years throughout NYC, L.I, Westchester, Rockland and Orange

Mr. Goldberg handles many complicated accident cases including car accidents, slip/trip and falls, construction accidents, medical malpractice, nursing home abuse, defective machinery/ products, landlord liability, lead paint poisoning, assault and wrongful death. Some of...

Alexander Kran III joined Leav & Steinberg in 2006 as the Managing Attorney. Mr. Kran graduated from New England School of Law in 1987 and SUNY Buffalo in 1984. He was admitted to Massachusetts bar in 1987, NY State bar in 1988, and was admitted to NY Southern District and Eastern District Federal Court as well as Massachusetts District Federal Court.

Mr. Kran is a member of NYS Trial Lawyers Association. He has practiced Plaintiffs Personal Injury since admission to the bar and has handled well over 1,000 cases.

For over 20 years, I have exclusively represented victims who have sustained serious injuries and families who have lost loved ones in cases involving Automobile Accidents, Medical Malpractice, Slip and Trip and Fall Incidents, Construction Site and Scaffolding Accidents, Pedestrian Accidents, Trucking Accidents, Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect, Dog Bites, Assault and Battery and many more. My office doesn’t just handle Personal Injury and Wrongful Death cases, we represent real people and real families, and understand the physical, emotional and financial burdens that a serious injury, or death of a family member, can cause. We also understand that our clients are the lifeblood of our business, and that is...

Charles E. Green is the managing partner at Friedman, Levy, Goldfarb & Green, P.C. Mr. Green has amassed a great deal of experience handling a wide array of personal injury cases including wrongful death, construction accidents, product liability, dental malpractice, premises liability, automobile accidents and municipal liability. Mr. Green is responsible for overseeing and coordinating the work of the firm’s team of attorneys and paralegals and ensuring that every case is aggressively pursued and skillfully negotiated.

I am a Solo Practioner in Bohemia (Suffolk County) New York. I am fluent in Spanish, can speak conversational Italian, and have studied Japanese. I am here to help with all of your Personal Injury claims, including car accidents, dog bite/attack, third-party work-related accidents, construction-site accidents, and more. Just ask.

Whenever a discussion is held about the top trial attorneys practicing in New York today, the name Barry Washor is consistently mentioned near the top of the list. Since he began practicing law in 1981, Barry has established a reputation as one of the top medical malpractice and personal injury lawyers in New York. His reputation stems from exceptional results and his integrity. His track record of success places him among the elite attorneys in New York history. Over the course of his career, Barry has recorded over 200 verdicts and settlements in excess of $1 million.

Barry’s outstanding legal skills...

Kim Wolf Price is the Director of Externship Programs at Syracuse University College of Law. Having spent nearly eight years as a legislative coordinator at the New York Public Welfare Association and senior regional coordinator at the New York State Assembly - Communications Services, and three years a securities and white collar criminal defense attorney with the New York City office of Clifford Chance LLP. Ms. Wolf Price is admitted to practice in all New York State courts, as well as the United States District Courts for the Northern, Eastern and Southern Districts. She is a member of the American Bar...

Allen L. Rothenberg, Esq., founded The Rothenberg Law Firm LLP in 1969. He has obtained numerous multi-million dollar verdicts, settlements, and awards for his catastrophically injured clients, including, together with his legal team, a record-breaking judgment in excess of two billion dollars. Mr. Rothenberg has been involved in multiple high-profile cases before state, federal, and appellate courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Rothenberg has been selected to The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100 and also has made guest appearances on national and local television and radio shows, including Fox TV, ABC TV, CBS...

Eric has nearly 30 years of experience litigating and trying serious personal injury and wrongful death cases, recovering millions of dollars for clients. After earning his law degree with honors in 1992, he clerked for a Federal District Court Judge before entering private practice. Currently residing in Jamesville, New York, Eric represents plaintiffs in state and federal courts in cases involving medical malpractice, vehicle collisions, construction accidents, and defective products. He has been actively involved with numerous bar associations, serving as President of the Northern District of New York Federal Court Bar Association, and frequently lectures on developments in his...