Cases I Take

I am licensed in New York, Georgia, and South Dakota. I practice in all those states. For appropriate cases, I can practice in any other state by retaining a local attorney to assist. (Remote work is seamless for most things in legal work. For the rest, there are airplanes.)

Business Disputes

I handle most types of business disputes affecting small businesses — contract disputes, intellectual property infringement, employment issues, etc. For general business disputes, I represent both plaintiffs and defendants.

Insurance Bad Faith

Insurance bad faith cases are a special type of business dispute. These cases involve insurance companies failing to honor their obligations to the people or businesses they insure. For insurance bad faith cases, I represent only plaintiffs.

Catastrophic Injury

I handle any type of catastrophic personal injury. Because of capacity constraints, I only take cases that involve severe, permanent injury.

Medical Malpractice

Medical malpractice is a special — more difficult — category of personal injury, and my criteria for taking medical malpractice cases are higher.

The awful truth is that the legal system provides no help for most victims of medical malpractice. There’s a popular myth that huge numbers of frivolous lawsuits get filed against healthcare providers. The reality is the opposite. The obstacles to a successful medical malpractice suit are so high that experienced attorneys have a very high threshold for cases. Like most experienced medical malpractice attorneys, I only take cases involving (a) serious, permanent harm that (b) was clearly caused (c) by conduct for which there is no reasonable excuse.

Embedded Trial Counsel, Ad Hoc Briefing, Appellate Practice

Not every lawyer likes to write, and often even those who do like to write don’t have time for it. I can help — from one-off, ad hoc briefing to a full co-counsel role in which I handle most or all of the writing in the case, at the trial or appellate level.

I’m available to practice nationwide. (You can write from anywhere, given a computer and internet connection.) Fees vary significantly in different markets, but my intention is to compete on price.