✓ $15 million jury verdict in federal court (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York) against a foreign airline operating out of JFK Int’l Airport, conspiracy between it and foreign national mother and her family to remove American-born daughter from the U.S. in violation of family court order

✓ $2.7 million pre-trial settlement ($4.5 million future value) for the estate and surviving wife and children of worker who contracted mesothelioma 20 years after working with asbestos cement pipes as part of an emergency sewer repair crew while in college

✓ $1.5 million pre-trial settlement, union carpenter injured at a Manhattan 60-floor building construction site by jerry-rigged mechanical hand saw

✓ $900,000 pre-trial settlement with U.S. airline, 28-year old woman suffered third-degree burns on a thigh and stomach from spilled hot tea water during an international flight

✓ $495,000 pre-trial settlement with product manufacturer, 82-year old woman suffered kidney damage after using popular colonoscopy prep product

✓ $465,000 pre-trial settlement with hospital and law firm (that had missed the time to bring a wrongful death claim) in favor of estate and surviving spouse over the death of a 62-year old physician who died from an undiagnosed pulmonary embolism

✓ $415,000 pre-trial settlement with NYC, 58-year old woman suffered a hip injury after tripping and falling in a gouged out road repair

✓ $350,000 settlement, after jury selection, with mobile phone manufacturer and service provider for to failure to warn of danger that mobile phone was still operating while not being actively used, resulting in a breast skin burn and permanent peripheral nerve damage

✓ $350,000 pre-trial settlement with NYC Board of Education for not warning high school student of spilled liquid, causing a fractured patella

✓  $300,000 pre-trial settlement, full value of auto insurance policy, for knee and neck injuries requiring surgery

✓ $250,000 jury verdict against private bus operator for backing into a parked vehicle, causing a third rotator cuff tear in shoulder that had just been surgically repaired

✓ $218,000 pre-trial settlement with NYC Board of Education for not adequately policing school stairwells, resulting in teenage female being bullied into performing sexual acts on several male students over several months

✓ $200,000 jury verdict against NYC plastic surgeon for medical malpractice, performed substandard gynecomastia correction surgery

✓ $190,000 pre-trial settlement with NYC for undercover police officers illegally stopping and detaining two black teenage girls for a few minutes, during which they illegally patted down and verbally abused

✓ $110,000 settlement during mediation with major NYC landlord, tenant suffered hypersensitivity pneumonitis after toxic mold exposure; landlord waived $75,000 in back rent

✓ Numerous pre-trial settlements for pedestrians and bicycle riders hit by cars at or near the limits of drivers’ insurance policies, particularly where there were surgeries

✓ Confidential high five-figure settlement with airline resulting from its serving excessively hot water for tea to a passenger who suffered second-degree burns on her legs during an international flight