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Address: 665 Main Street, buffalo, NY, 14203-1425
Law Firm: Goldberg Segalla LLP
Phone: 716-566-5475
Fax: 716-566-5401
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Website: http://www.goldbergsegalla.com
| Title | Partner |
| First Year of Call | |
| Areas of Practice | Product Liability, Toxic Tort |
| Description | Neil A. Goldberg has defended product liability, pharmaceutical, medical device, trucking, toxic tort, and other complex catastrophic cases across the United States for numerous New York Stock Exchange companies. One of Neil’s catastrophic trials arose from the February 2009 crash of Colgan Flight 3407 that resulted in the deaths of 50 people – one of only a few such trials conducted in the United States in the last 30 years.Neil is past president of the Defense Research Institute (DRI), the largest organization of civil defense attorneys in the United States; past chair of the Products Liability Committees of both the DRI and New York State Bar Association (NYSBA); and past president and chairman of the board of Lawyers for Civil Justice. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Bureau of National Affairs’ (BNA) Product Safety & Liability Reporter. Consistently recognized by Best Lawyers in America in the Personal Injury, Product Liability, and Aviation Law categories, he additionally won the publication’s Product Liability Lawyer of the Year Award for Buffalo, New York in 2018. In 2016, Neil was the recipient of the Defense Trial Lawyers Association of Western New York’s Defense Trial Lawyer of the Year Award.A prolific writer and recognized authority on the defense of complex personal injury cases, Neil has been editor, co-editor, or contributing author for seven books on the subject. He is the co-editor-in-chief of the two-volume treatise Preparing For and Trying the Civil Lawsuit, second edition, published by the New York State Bar Association (2004). He is also editor-in-chief and contributing author to Products Liability in New York, Strategy and Practice, second edition (2012), and editor-in-chief of DRI’s Daubert Compendium. Also a sought-after speaker on the defense of product liability and personal injury actions, Neil has lectured for Lloyds of London, the Defense Research Institute, Practicing Law Institute, the American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, Southern Methodist University and other prestigious organizations throughout North America and Europe.Honors & AwardsMartindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating: AV PreeminentBest Lawyers in AmericaAviation Law, 2013-21 Personal Injury – Defendants, 2018-21 Product Liability – Defendants, 2018-21 Lawyer of the Year, Buffalo, Product Liability – Defendants, 2018 Defense Trial Lawyer of the Year, Defense Trial Lawyers Association of Western New York, 2016The International Who’s Who of Product Liability Defence LawyersThe International Who’s Who of Insurance & Reinsurance LawyersTop Rated Lawyer in Litigation, American Lawyer Media and Martindale-Hubbell, 2014Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel EditionUpstate New York Super Lawyers, 2007-20Named one of the Top 50 New York Super LawyersBusiness First˜s Legal Elite of Western New York (Litigation)Distinguished Alumni Award for Private Practice, SUNY Buffalo Law Alumni AssociationDefense Research Institute: Distinguished Service AwardNew York State Bar Association: Committee Chair of the Year Award; Distinguished Service AwardWho’s Who in AmericaWho’s Who in American LawWho’s Who LegalPublications & EventsPublications Co-Editor-in-Chief, Preparing for and Trying the Civil Lawsuit, 2d Ed., 2016 Rev., New York State Bar Association; Author, Cross-Examination of the Technical/Medical Witness; Co-Author, Understanding the Attorney-Client Privilege: A Practical Overview and Associated Ethical Rules Co-Author, Fraudulent Misjoinder: Combating Artful Pleadings Designed to Destroy Diversity Jurisdiction, DRI For the Defense, May 2015 Co-Author, Through Regulations and in Court: The 2008 CPSIA Starts to Take Shape, For The Defense, Defense Research Institute, April, 2009 Co-Author, CPSC Power Expands: Legislation Brings Change to Consumer Products Industry, USLAW Magazine, Spring/Summer, 2009 Co-Author, Negotiating the Landscape of Increased Penalties under CPSIA, For The Defense, Defense Research Institute, February, 2009 Co-Author, The New CPSC Public Database of Incidents, For The Defense, Defense Research Institute, December, 2008 Co-Author, The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008: Preparing for the Unknown and the Unknowable, For The Defense, Defense Research Institute, October, 2008 Co-Author, Product Recalls Stir Public Sentiment, USLAW Magazine, Spring/Summer, 2008 Co-Author, Frye ˜Em: Jury Psychology Can Undermine Plaintiffs’ Expert Witnesses, For The Defense, Defense Research Institute, December, 2007 Co-Author, An Emerging Litigation Arena, For the Defense, Defense Research Institute, December, 2006 Co-Editor-in-Chief, Preparing For and Trying the Civil Lawsuit, New York State Bar Association, 2004 Editor-in-Chief and Contributing Author, Preparing For and Trying the Civil Lawsuit, 2004 Supplement, New York State Bar Association, 2004 Editor-in-Chief, The Daubert Compendium, Defense Research Institute, January, 2003 Editor-in-Chief and Contributing Author, Preparing For and Trying the Civil Lawsuit, 2000 Supplement, New York State Bar Association, 2000 Editor and Contributing Author, Products Liability in New York: Strategy and Practice, New York State Bar Association, 1997 Co-Author, Admissibility of Expert Testimony, A State-by-State Compendium, Defense Research Institute, 1996 Author, Defenses & Bars, Product Liability Practice Guide, Matthew Bender Co-Author, Finding the Facts in Products Liability Litigation, For The Defense, Defense Research Institute, October, 1996 Co-Author, The Hunter, the Ostrich and the Spinmaster, For The Defense, Defense Research Institute, October, 1994 Editor-in-Chief, Preparing For and Trying the Civil Lawsuit, New York State Bar Association, 1987 Presentations Presenter, Challenging Liability in Catastrophic Injury Cases/Defending Against Punitive Damages, Catastrophic Injury Joint Seminar, Chicago, IL; New York, NY, November 7, 2017 Co-Presenter, Strategies for Containing Liability Cases and What You Need to Know About Jury Behavior to Do So, Catastrophic Injury Joint Seminar, Chicago, IL; New York, NY, November 7, 2017 Presenter, Understanding What Drives Run Away Verdicts, Catastrophic Injury Joint Seminar, Chicago, IL; New York, NY, November 7, 2017 Co-Presenter, Lifecycle of a Litigation in a Bad Faith Claim, Enstar Claims Management Meeting, June 20, 2017 Co-Presenter, Strategic and Ethical Landscape of Defending Clients Who Have Engaged in Indefensible Conduct, American Bar Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 5, 2016 Presenter, Lessons Learned: Defending Catastrophic Burn Injuries, Fighting Fire With Fire, Chicago, June 22, 2016 Presenter, Developing a Centrist Jury and Defending the Punitive Damages Case, USLAW Fall 2015 Client Conference, Boston, MA, September 18, 2015 Presenter, What Professionals Should Know About Managing and Insuring Cyber Liability Risk and Defending Those Professionals in the Event of a Claim, USLAW Fall Client Conference, Washington, D.C., October 4-6, 2012 Presenter, The Use of Social Media to Defend the Catastrophic Case, USLAW Regional Meeting, Dallas, TX, January 2011 Presenter, Using the New Science of Jury Psychology to Win the Battle of the Experts in High Stakes Litigation, 22nd Annual Medical Device Defense Seminar, Bend, Oregon, June 2009 Moderator, Avoiding the Perils of the New CPSIA, USLAW Network Spring Conference, Charleston, SC, March, 2009 Presenter, Products Liability from Emerging Markets, Canadian Defence Lawyers Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, June, 2008 Presenter, Avoiding Quality Assurance Breakdowns and Conducting a Swift and Effective Product Recall in the Event They Occur, American Conference Institute, Las Vegas, Nevada, February, 2008 Participant, American Society for Quality 58th Annual Quality Congress, May, 2004 Defense Counsel’s Approach to Cross-Examination in the Post-Daubert Era, For The Defense, Defense Research Institute, June, 1996Recent Insights Super Lawyers Honors 68 of Goldberg Segalla’s Upstate New York Attorneys in 2020 August 24, 2020 Fifty-One Goldberg Segalla Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for 2021 August 20, 2020 The Best Lawyers in America 2020 Names Thomas P. Bernier and Patrick B. Naylon Lawyers of the Year, Lists 37 Goldberg Segalla Attorneys Nationwide August 15, 2019 Super Lawyers Honors Nearly Two-Thirds of Goldberg Segalla’s Upstate New York Attorneys August 13, 2019 New Trial Ordered for Heavy-Equipment Manufacturer Found Liable in Man’s Death May 30, 2019 Sixty-One Goldberg Segalla Attorneys Featured in 2018 Upstate New York Super Lawyers August 13, 2018 |
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