LEGAL EDUCATION

California Western School of Law
San Diego, California
J.D. 1982 Cum Laude
American Jurisprudence Award; Corporate Law and Insurance Law

UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

Ithaca College
Ithaca, New York
B.S. 1979 (Health Care Administration)
Internship; Huntington Hospital, Huntington, NY

BAR ADMISSIONS

California State Bar, 1982
United States District Court, Southern District of California
New York State Bar, 1983
United States Tax Court, 1983
United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
United States District Court, Southern District of New York
Minnesota State Bar, 1984
District of Columbia Bar, 1988
United States Supreme Court, 1992

BAR MEDIA APPEARANCES

Featured on The ABC Network’s news program “20/20* with
Barbara Walters and John Stossel (May 5, 1995).
Featured on The Fox Network’s “A Current Affair” (March 17, 1994)

ARBITRATOR 

Suffolk County District Courts
1990 – Present

JUDICIAL REFEREE

New York State Supreme Court, Nassau County
2004 – 2005

AFFILIATIONS

California State Bar Association
New York State Bar Association
Suffolk County Bar Association
Nassau County Bar Association
Nassau/Suffolk Trial lawyers Association
New York State Trial Lawyers Association
New York State Medical Defense Bar Association
Defense Research Institute (Member of the Employment Law and Medical Malpractice Committees).
Arbitrator, Suffolk County District Court, 1990—Present.

PERSONAL 

Married, two children