Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigman & Mackauf

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Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigman & Mackauf
Type Professional Limited Liability Partnership
Founded New York, New York, USA (1919)
Headquarters New York, New York, USA
Key people Robert Conason, Managing Partner, Ernest R. Steigman , Stephen H. Mackauf, Anthony Gair, Ben B. Rubinowitz, Jeffrey B. Bloom, Howard S. Hershenhorn
Industry Legal services, plaintiff's personal injury litigation
Products N/A
Revenue N/A
Net income $[ ] Million (2004)
Employees approximately [ ] (2006)
Slogan N/A
Website www.gairgair.com

Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigman & Mackauf is a law firm located at 80 Pine Street, in the Wall Street financial district of Manhattan, New York City. It was originally founded by Harry A. Gair and Harriet Gair as Gair & Gair.Harry Gair's formal education ended after the eigth grade. From then on he was self educated and passed the New York State Bar examination in 1919. He went on to become the pre-eminent plaintiff's trial lawyer in New York in the area of personal injury law. He was, in fact, considered the country's outstanding practitioner in the field of negligence or personal injury law. When he died in 1975, his protege, Robert Conason, became managing partner of the firm and continues in that role to the present [1], [2]. In 2004 the firm won a $3 million settlement from the city for the death of Amadou Diallo. They represented his estate, led by Diallo's mother Kadiatou. Today, they have approximately twenty attorneys.

This New York City Law firm limits it's practice to representing plaintiffs in serious personal injury cases. The firm's attorney's specialize in the fields of negligence, medical malpractice, products liability, construction accidents, construction liability, construction litigation, Legal malpractice, pharmacists liability, surgeons liability, pediatric malpractice, orthopedic malpractice, obstetric malpractice, nursing negligence, medical negligence, gynecology malpractice , birth trauma, municipal liability, wrongful death, slip and fall, plaintiffs personal injury, pedestrian injuries, motorcycle accidents, motor vehicle accident and injuries, head injury, catastrophic injury, boating accident, automobile negligence, automobile accidents and injuries, personal injury, premises liability, automotive products liability, drug and medical device litigation, elevator liability, escalator liability, Explosions, manufacturers liability, product defects, toxic torts, truck accidents. The firm's partners and associates have lectured and written extensively in many of theses fields.

Contents

[edit] Selected writings of the firm's attorneys

  • Robert Conason, co-author with Harry A. Gair, Trial of a Negligence Case, Practising Law Institute
  • Robert Conason, Damages in Tort Actions, 7 volumes, Matthew Bender
  • Robert Conason, Medical Malpractice: Trial of an Obstetrical and Neonatal Malpractice Case, Law Journal Seminars Press, 1989 - 1990
  • Robert Conason, Failure to diagnose Breast Cancer, Law Journal Seminars-Press, 1993 to 1999
  • Stephen H. Mackauf,Trial of an Obstetrical Malpractice Case, Law Journal Seminars-Press, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999 & 2001
  • Stephen H. Mackauf,Failure to Diagnose Cancer , Law Journal Seminars-Press, 1991 & 1992
  • Stephen H. Mackauf, Failures in Obstetrical & Neonatal Care, Law Journal Seminars-Press, 1982
  • Stephen H. Mackauf, Failures in Anesthesia Care, Law Journal Seminars-Press, 1984 - 1986
  • Stephen H. Mackauf,Obstetrical-Neonatal Malpractice and Brain Damage , Law Journal Seminars-Press, 1984 - 1986
  • Jeffrey B. Bloom,Failure to diagnose Breast Cancer: The Trial , Law Journal Seminars-Press, 1998, 2000
  • Anthony H. Gair, Co-Author with Rhonda Kay Culpable Conduct/Comparative Fault Issues as Applicable to a Products Liability Case, Products Liability in New York, Strategy and Practice, New York State Bar Association, 1997
  • Anthony H. Gair, Prosecuting a Case of Failure to Diagnose Compartment Syndrome, Medical Malpractice Law and Strategy, Vol. XV, No. 12, October 1998
  • Anthony H. Gair, Cosmetic Surgical Malpractice: Loss of Vision following Blepharoplasty, Medical Malpractice Law and Strategy, 2000
  • Anthony H. Gair, Chemotherapy: Failure to Properly Treat Extravasation of Doxorubicin,Medical Malpractice Law and Strategy, Vol. XVIII, No.10 August 2000
  • Ben B. Rubinowitz, Co-Author Tips and Techniques for Jury Selection, New York Law Journal, [[May 23, 2000
  • Ben B. Rubinowitz, Co-Author The Opening Statement, New York Law Journal, October 24, 2000
  • Ben B. Rubinowitz, Co-Author Direct Examination of a Medical Expert, New York Law Journal, November 25, 2000
  • Ben B. Rubinowitz, Co-Author Cross Examination of a Medical Expert, New York Law Journal, July 25, 2000
  • Howard S. Hershenhorn, Power Cross Examination of the Accident Reconstructionist, New York State Bar, 1993
  • Howard S. Hershenhorn, Recent Trends in New York State Products Liability Law: A Review of the Most Recent Decisions, New York State Bar, Journal of Insurance, Negligence & Compensation Law, 1994
  • Howard S. Hershenhorn, Recent Trends in New York Products Liability: A Review of Significant 1995 Decisions, New York State Bar, Journal of Insurance, Negligence & Compensation Law, 1995
  • Howard S. Hershenhorn, Preparing Plaintiff's Expert in the Post-Daubert Era, New York State Bar Products Liability, Spring 1997
  • Howard S. Hershenhorn, New Frontier In Products Liability, New York Law Journal, September 16, 1996
  • Rhonda E. Kay, How to Try a Slip and Fall Case-The Basics, New York State Bar, 2001
  • Rhonda E. Kay, Decisions 2001: Products Liability, New York State Trial Lawyers Institute
  • Rhonda E. Kay, Decisions 2000: Products Liability, New York State Trial Lawyers Institute
  • Rhonda E. Kay, Joint and Several Liability and The Interplay of CPLR Art. 16-Motor Vehicle Accidents, New York State Bar, 1998
  • Richard M. Steigman, Keeping Pace, A Guide For The Up-To-Date Litigator, Update on Automobile Cases, 1998
  • Dr. Katherine A. Hawkins, "Adverse drug events: do you know what the warning label really says?", ED Legal Letter, Vol. 15, No 1, January 2004

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Lawsuit by Stuart M. Speiser, Horizon Press, 1980
  2. ^ The Lawyer Who Hasn't Lost A Case In Ten Years by Will Chassan, Pageant Magazine, vol. 9, No 11, May 1954

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