About
Steven Schiesel, a founding associate of Pecoraro & Schiesel, became born in New York City in 1960. He obtained a B.A., cum laude, from Columbia University in New York, a J.D. from Fordham Law School,and an LL.M. in Trial Advocacy from Temple Law School. While a pupil at Columbia University, he changed into elected to the Psi Chi National Honor Society and was frequently at the Dean s List.
Steven is admitted to the bar in New York and Connecticut. He is also admitted to practice earlier than america Supreme Court and the US District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.
Continuing felony schooling has been a good sized part of Steven s profession on the grounds that graduating from regulation college. He completed a 500 hour superior intensive trial advocacy application on the National College of Advocacy in Washington, D.C. and was presented the highest designation, Diplomat, at its end. Pro Bono carrier has also been part of Steven s career. He has taught trial advocacy and moot court docket competencies to High School students in undeserved neighborhoods of New York City as well as represented mentally ill people in Court proceedings.
In 2009 and 2010, Steven became named to the "New York Super Lawyers" list, a distinction presented to the top five percent of New York s attorneys as selected by using their peers and the impartial research of Reuters News Service. His list changed into mentioned with the aid of the New York Times in its Sunday magazine section. Recently, Steven has two times been a finalist in Lawdragon s 500 Leading Lawyers in America. In 2006, he was covered on the listing of "The Leading Plaintiff s Lawyers in America" published in Lawdragon Magazine. Steven become also presented the rating of 10/10 ("Superb") by way of The AVVO Lawyer s Rating Service, a expert service which rates legal professionals in the course of the USA based totally on a scale of zero?10. In 2007, Steven obtained the Empire State Counsel Award from the New York State Bar Association for service to the community. In November 2010, Amtrak Magazine along side AVVO Lawyers Rating Service named Steven as one of the top 10 private injury litigators within the Northeastern United States.
Steven has had splendid fulfillment in litigating multi-million dollar private injury complaints as illustrated by means of his lifetime club in the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, which limits its members to Trial Lawyers who've a file of settling cases or obtaining jury verdicts for $one million.00 or greater.
Steven is a member of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association in which he formerly served on the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors. He is an lively member of the American Association for Justice, an organisation constituted of plaintiff s private injury attorneys dedicated to maintaining justice and equity within the judicial device for injured people. He is likewise a member of the New York State Bar Association wherein he serves at the Committee on Lawyer Professionalism.
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- Medical Malpractice
- Birth Injury, Medical Misdiagnosis, Pharmacy Errors, Surgical Errors
- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
- Insurance Claims
- Bad Faith Insurance, Business Insurance, Disability Insurance, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Motor Vehicle Insurance, Property Insurance
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- Senior Partner
Pecoraro & Schiesel
1994 - Trial Lawyer
Newman Schlau Fitch & Lane, PC
1992
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