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Member at the firm Roberta Ashkin
Areas of Practice
Personal Injury; Medical Malpractice; Pharmaceutical Liability; Product Liability; Toxic Torts; Mass Torts; Wrongful Death; Asbestos Litigation; Auto Accidents; Motorcycle Accidents; Trucking Accidents; Slip and Fall; Hospital Negligence; Health Care; Health Care Liability; Hormone Replacement Litigation; Birth Trauma; Brain Injury; Occupational Safety and Health; Occupational Cancer; Occupational Diseases; Elder Law; Nursing Home Negligence; Nursing Home Litigation; Civil Rights; Civil Litigation; Complex Litigation; Environmental Litigation; Construction Litigation; Contracts; Sexual Discrimination; Women's Rights
Admitted
1979, New York; 1980, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1997, U.S. Supreme Court; 2002, U.S. District Court, Northern and Western Districts of New York
Law School
St. John's University School of Law, J.D., 1978
College
Hofstra University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1975
Membership
New York State Bar Association; Metropolitan Women's Bar Association; New York County Lawyers Association (Chair, Medical Malpractice Committee, 1994-1996); The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Member, 1995; State Affairs Committee, 2002; Political Affairs Liaison Committee, 2000-2001); New York State Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Directors, 1997; Secretary, 2002; Chair, Women's Caucus, 2002; Deputy-Treasurer, 2001; Member, Board of Directors, 1996); Daytop Village Foundation (Board of Directors, 2002); American Association of Justice; Public Justice (Member, Board of Directors, 1996); Cancer Schmancer (Member, Board of Directors; Secretary, 2008).
Biography
Phi Beta Kappa. Administrative Law Judge, New York City Department of Transportation, 1989. Editor, Moore's Federal Practice, Mathew Bender, 1978-1980. Principal, Ashkin Law, Personal and Injury, Products' Liability and Commercial Litigation, 2002; Of Counsel, The Caldwell Practice, Charleston, West Virginia, Mass Tort Pharmaceutical and Products' Liability. Partner-Mass Tort and Products Liability, Baron & Budd, 1997-2002; Medical Malpractice and Pharmaceutical Liability, Trolman, Glaser and Lichtman, 1990-1996. Of Counsel, The Calwell Practice, Charleston, West Virginia. Managing Attorney, Julian & Schlesinger, 1985-1990. With, Lipsig, Sullivan and Liapakis, 1981-1985.
Languages: Spanish and French
Born
Jamaica, New York, July 1, 1953
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