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    Lawrence B. Goldhirsch
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Admitted: 1970, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1971, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1975, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Tax Court and U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals; 1980, U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut; 1988, Florida; 1997, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida; 1999, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; 2003, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia

Law School: Brooklyn Law School, J.D., 1969; Institute International des Droits de l'Homme, Strasbourg, France

College: City College of the City University of New York, B.S., 1963; Trinity College

Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; Brooklyn (Member, Special Committee on TortLaw, 1973-1976; Committee on Criminal Procedure, 1973-1976; Chairman, Committee on Aerospace Law, 1975-1976), American (Member, Sections on: International Law; Litigation) and International (Member, Business Law Section; Vice Chairman, Committees on: Consumer Affairs Advertising, Unfair Competition and Products Liability; General Practice; Member, Committees on: Aeronautical Law; Civil Procedures) Bar Associations; The Florida Bar; New York County Lawyers Association (Member, Committees on: Consumer Affairs; Aeronautical Law); New York State Trial Lawyers Association; World Association of Lawyers; World Peace Through Law Center; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; American Physical Society.

Reported Cases: Neal V. Butler Aviation Intern., Inc., 460 F. Supp. 98 (EDNY 1978);Complaint of Molai Shipping Corp., 569 F.Supp.523 (S.D.N.Y. 1983); Aboujdid v. Singapore Airlines, 489 NYS2d 171 (1st Dept., 1985); Bewers v. American Home Producers 459 NYS2s 666; Bonilla v. Abbott, 493 NYS2d 592 (2d Dept., 1985); Chung v. New York City Transit Authority, 583 NYS2d 476 (2d Dept., 1992); Cirale v. 80 Pine St, 344 NYS2d 973 359 NYS2d 1 (C.A., 1974); Collins v. Resto, 746 FSupp 3600 (DCNY 1990); DeRosa v. Remington, 509 FSupp 762 (DCNY, 1981); Holt v. NYC Transit Authority, 542 NYS2d 250 (2d Dept., 1989); In Re Molai, 569 FSupp 523 (DCNY, 1983); In Re Amoco Cadiz, 467 FSupp 181 (N.O. Ill., 1978), 491 FSupp 161 (ND, Ill., 1979); Klein v. Dow Corning, 661 F2d 998 (2d Cir., 1981); Knox v. Decker, 685 NYS2d 620 (2d Dept., 1999); Logan v. Board of Education, 543 NYS2d 661 (1st Dept., 1989); Manion v. Pan Am, 449 NYS2d 593 (C.A., 1982), 439 NYS2d 6 (1st Dept., 1981); 430 NYS2d 486 (Sup.Ct., 1980); Morris v. El Al, 15 Avi, 17,241 (DC,NY, 1979); Moskowitz v. Rosenberg, 422 NYS2d 439 (2d Dept., 1979); Pavis v. Scott, 439 NYS2d 215 (2d Dept., 1981); Shafarman v. Ryder Trucks; Taylor v. Pescatore, 477 NYS2d 41 (2d Dept., 1984); Tormey v. Con Ed, 585 NYS2d 33 (1st Dept., 1992); Vencius v. Morania Oil Tanker Corp., 619 NYS2d 336 (2d Dept., 1994); LuAnn d''Augustino v. Bristol Meyers Squibb Co. 980F Supp 1452; Shepard v. Werwaiss 947F Supp 71 (SDNY 1996); Barrow v. Bristol Meyers Squibb, U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22041 (MD Fla. 1998), aff''d 190 F.3d 541 (11th Cir. 1999); Utica Mutual Ins. Co. v. East End Pools, 706 NYS2d 353 (2d Dept. 2000); Gonzalez v. Barbieri 705 NYS2d 399 (2d Dept. 2000); Dorfman v. Marriott Int''l 2001 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 642 (UDCNY 2001; Massie v. General Motors Corp., 272 NYS2d 604, (43 AD2d 671); Nagin v. Postel, 352 NYS2d 414, (43AD2d 910); Marinelli v. State, 335 NYS2d 454, (71 Misc.2d 62).

Languages: French

Born: New York, N.Y., May 11, 1942

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