Position: Member

TEL: 518-465-5995

FAX: 518-426-4012

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Website: www.Powers-Santola.com/locations/albany-office/

Admitted: 1985, New York; 1987, U.S. District Court, Eastern, Southern, Northern and Western Districts of New York; 1988, Rhode Island (inactive); 1998, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 2008, U.S. Supreme Court

Law School:  State University of New York at Buffalo, J.D 1984.

College: State University of New York at Oneonta, B.S. 1981

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Practice Areas: Personal Injury; Medical Malpractice/Wrongful Death; Environmental Litigation

Additional Information: 

Member, Third Judicial Department Independent Judicial Election Qualification Commission, 2009- Present. PUBLISHED WORKS: Editor and Author, 2009 "The Plaintiff's Personal Injury Action in New York State" (two volume treatise) New York State Bar Association, Second Edition pending 2012; "Preparing For and Litigating the Plaintiff's Personal Injury Case in New York," New York Lawyer's Deskbook and Formbook 2003-2012, New York State Trial Lawyers Association; "The Successful Bill of Particulars," Bill of Particulars, Fall, 2003; "Successfully Litigating in the Age of Kumho Tire," Bill of Particulars, December 2000; "Restraining the Seat Belt Defense," Bill of Particulars, September 1999; "FIFRA Preemption in New York," June 1999; Third Department Review, Monthly Column, Albany County Bar Newsletter, 1999-2006. CLASSES/SEMINARS: State Chair - Managing Tough Issues in a Personal Injury Case, 2012 (pending) 2009, 2006, 2003, New York State Bar Association; State Chair - Litigating Kumho Tire, Daubert and Frye and State and Federal Courts, May 2002, New York State Bar Association; Speaker - Jury Selection for the Plaintiff, 2009 New York State Bar Association; Practical Skills - Using Bills of Particulars and Interrogatories, New York State Bar Association, June 6, 2003; Premises Liability Updates, New York State Bar Association, June 1, 2001; Environmental Law Practice - Recent Developments in CERCLA and Toxic Tort Litigation, New York State Bar Association, May 25, 2000; Law Office Management for the Small Office Practitioner, Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) Chicago, Illinois, July 30, 2000; Product Defect Claims after Kumho Tire, New York State Bar Association, October 15, 1999; Jury Selection Techniques: the Basics for the Civil Practitioner, New York State Bar Association, 1999; Trying the Plaintiff's Neck and Back Case, New York State Bar Association, 1998; New Civil Practice Legislation, New York State Trial Lawyers Association, Decisions Seminar, 1997; Evaluating the Plaintiff's Personal Injury Case, Albany County Bar Association, 1997; Preparing the Plaintiff's Product Defect Case, New York State Bar Association, 1997; Expert Disclosure in New York Practice, Albany County Bar Association, 1995; Moderator: Basic Tort and Insurance Law Practice, New York State Bar Association, April, 2001 and 1998; Basic Depositions, New York State Trial Lawyers Association/Albany County Bar Association, 1999; Demonstrative Evidence, New York State Trial Lawyers Association/Albany County Bar Association, 1999; Introduction to the Courts, Albany County Bar Association, 1998-1999; Civil Practice Update, New York State Trial Lawyers Association, 1997; Annual Trial Practice Seminar, Albany County Bar Association, 1995-1997. Member, 1993-2002, Member, Editorial Board, Bill of Particulars, Member, Judicial Screening for Court of Appeals, Candidates, 2000, New York State Trial Lawyers Association. Fellow, American Bar Foundation.

Firm Members: Laura Jordan

Firm Members: Amber Wright