Admitted
1960, District of Columbia; 1965, Maryland
Law School
George Washington University, LL.B., 1960
Law School Graduation Year
1960
College
Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
Memberships
The District of Columbia Bar; American Bar Association; The Bar Association of the District of Columbia; Association of Plaintiff's Trial Attorneys of Metropolitan Washington, D.C.; The American Society of Law and Medicine, Inc.; National Health Lawyers Association; Maryland Trial Lawyers Association; American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys; American Board of Trial Attorneys; Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C.
Biographical
Author: Products Liability Comes of Age in the District of Columbia, American University Law Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, 1968; Gilding the Lily-A DES Update, Trial, Vol. 20, No. 12, December 1984; Identification of Manufacturer of Diethylstilbestrol (DES), 45 Am Jur Proof of Facts 2d, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Co., 1986. Co-Author: The Medicolegal Aspects of Adverse Drug Reactions, The Eye in Systemic Diseases, III, Little, Brown and Co., 1970; Obstetrical Malpractice - The Last Decade, Contemporary OB/GYN, 1982. Recipient, Plaintiff's Lawyer of the Year, Plaintiff's Trial Attorneys of Washington, D.C., 1980. Lecturer: National College of Trial Advocacy; Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Defense Research Institute; Children's Hospital of Washington, D.C.; Washington Hospital Center; American College of Surgery; D.C. Medical Society. Legislative Assistant, Hon. S. Halpern, Queens, New York, 1958-1960. Appointee, Medical Device Classification Panel Food and Drug Administration, 1977-1978. Member, U.S. Judicial Conference for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1980-1990. Court Appointed Dalkon Shield Creditors Committee, 1985. Court Appointed Steering Committee, Silicone Breast Implant MDL-926, 1993; Co-Chair, Science Committee. Member, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, 1975-1989 (Chair, Aralen Litigation Committee; Chair, Pacemaker Litigation Committee; Chair, DES Litigation Committee). (Certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy)