Admitted
1977, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1978, U.S. Court of International Trade and U.S. Court of Military Appeals; 1979, U.S. District Court, Northern and Western Districts of New York and U.S. Court of Appeals
Law School
Hofstra University, J.D., 1976
Law School Graduation Year
1976
College
Syracuse University, B.A., 1973
Memberships
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Aeronautical Law Committee, 2002—); Nassau County, New York State (Delegate to House of Delegates, 2002—; Chair, Business Law Section's Internet and Technology Law Committee, 1998-2001; Member, Business Law Section's Executive Committee, 1996—), American and International (Publications Officer, Technology and E-Commerce Law Committee) Bar Associations; Computer Law Association; Federal Bar Council.
Biographical
Member, 1974-1976, and Research Editor, 1975-1976, Hofstra Law Review. Director, First Year Legal Research and Advisement Fellows Program, 1975-1976. Selected Publications, Author: Courting Disaster, Computerworld, October 16, 1989; Liability for Negligent Misrepresentation Claims in Computer Litigation -- The Scope of the 'Special Relationship' under New York Law, 4 Computer Law Association Bulletin 16 (Summer 1989). Co-Author: Software Licensing: Read the Fine Print, Eksport (Denmark), August 7, 1992; Practice and Procedure in Federal and State Courts, New York Law Journal, Feb. 3, 1986, Apr. 24, 1986. Selected Speeches: Program Chair, Mediation of a Complex Aircraft Crash Litigation, International Bar Association 2000 Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September, 2000; Jurisdictional Issues 'Dot Com', International Bar Association 1999 Conference, Barcelona, Spain, September, 1999; Jurisdiction in Cyberspace, American Bar Association Aviation Litigation Seminar, Washington, D.C., October 1998; Moderator, Using Experts: Pointers, Perils and Pitfalls, American Bar Association Program on Aviation Litigation, New York, New York, June 1996; Avoiding Litigation and User-Unfriendly Computer Software By Building User Protections Into Software License Agreements and Selected Topics in High Technology Litigation, EVD Ministerie Van Economische Zaken Program on U.S. Intellectual Property Law, The Hague, Netherlands, June, 1995; Creative Use of Class Actions in Aviation Disaster Litigation, American Bar Association Program on Litigation in Aviation, Washington, D.C., October 1994; Recent Developments in Aviation, American Bar Association Program on Litigation in Aviation, Washington, D.C., October 1991; High Technology Litigation, New York State Bar Association Program on Computer Law, New York, New York, February 1991, November 1988 and October 1987. Associate, Martin, Van de Walle & Sawyer, Great Neck, New York, 1976-1977.