Ben B. Rubinowitz NEW YORK CITY
Cynthia A. Walters
NEWARK
Kathleen Nastri STAMFORD
James D. Martin
WOODBRIDGE
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Thomas H. Bell NEW YORK CITY
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Theodore V. H. Mayer NEW YORK CITY
Michael J. Marone
NEWARK
Anthony J. Enea
PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION - PLAINTIFFS
Nicholas Papain
NEW YORK CITY
Anthony M. Sola
TRUSTS AND ESTATES
Dennis M. Donnelly
NEWARK
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LAW – DEFENDANTS
White Plains, NY
Angelo A. Ziotas STAMFORD
New York, NY
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NEW YORK CITY
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Robert J. Ivanhoe
NEW YORK CITY
Russell B. Bershad
NEWARK
Steven M. Siegelaub
STAMFORD
Michael J. Gross
WOODBRIDGE
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William P. Oberdorf NEWARK
Richard Slavin
STAMFORD
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Stephen J. Crimmins
NEW YORK CITY
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Renwick D. Martin NEW YORK CITY
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Jeffrey L. Kessler NEW YORK CITY
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NEW YORK CITY
John L. Berger
NEWARK
Brett W. Dixon
STAMFORD
Gary J. Hoagland
WOODBRIDGE
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Kenneth A. Adler
NEW YORK CITY
TRADEMARK LAW
Kenneth A. Plevan
NEW YORK CITY
TRUSTS AND ESTATES
Steven D. Leipzig HACKENSACK
Jeffrey A. Galant
LONG ISLAND
Ronald J. Weiss
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Peter T. Mott
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Anthony J. Enea
WHITE PLAINS
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Anthony J. Enea, managing member of Enea, Scanlan & Sirignano, LLP, has been working to protect the rights of seniors, the disabled, and their families for the last 30 years. Enea notes that in the late 1980s and early 1990s he was one of only a handful of attorneys practicing wills, trusts and estates, and elder law. Enea was drawn to the field out of a desire to help the elderly and otherwise vulnerable protect their life savings from what he believed would be the two biggest problems impacting their savings: estate taxes and the cost of long-term care. “When someone is suffering from Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, or any other debilitating disease, it will inevitably affect their ability to handle their affairs, and the need for significant long-term care can be costly, especially if you cannot access Medicaid,” says Enea. “The substantial costs related to long-term care can be devastating if proper planning is not implemented and the application for Medicaid is not properly handled. Dealing with the bureaucracy that is Medicaid requires skill, patience, and a real understanding of the law.” Enea and his partners and associates have both the knowledge of the law and the practical experience necessary to tackle the challenges facing seniors, the disabled, and their families. Enea explains that “we’re not dealing with corporations; we’re dealing with families and the fear and worries of providing care to a loved one without losing one’s life savings. To be good at this, you must have a great deal of compassion and empathy for the individuals you work with, along with the ability to navigate the legal intricacies involved.” Enea has played foundational and leadership roles in a number of professional organizations, including his service as past chair of the Elder Law Section of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), member of the NYSBA’s Trust and Estates Section’s Executive Committee, past president and founding member of the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA), past president of the Westchester County Bar Association (WCBA), and current president of the Westchester County Bar Foundation. Enea is the recipient of numerous legal accolades and commendations from peers and colleagues, including the “Above the Bar” award, bestowed on him by Pace Law School in 2013 for his long-running leadership in elder care law. In addition to this year’s award from Best Lawyers, Enea has received high peer-review ratings in previous years to win Best Lawyers’ 2015 White Plains “Lawyer of the Year” award for trusts and estates and 2016 White Plains “Lawyer of the Year” award for elder law. He has been designated as a “Super Lawyer” in elder law for the last 10 consecutive years and has been named a Top 25 “Super Lawyer” for Westchester County multiple times. He has been rated an AV Preeminent attorney by Martindale-Hubbell since 2002.
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Anthony Sola is a lead trial attorney at famed New York and Long Island medical defense firm Martin Clearwater & Bell LLP. He has a deftness with medicine and law that can only be ascribed to natural talent and his acute perception of all that that medical malpractice cases involve gives insight into his impressive track record in medical malpractice defense litigation. “You have to start each case with real intellectual curiosity,” says Sola. “If you’re not curious, you’re not going to understand the nuances involved to the degree that you need to, and will not be prepared for anything that could happen at trial. You need to be able to think on your feet and you’re not going to be able to think fast enough— nobody is—unless you truly understand the underlying issues in great depth.” In his 39 years in the field, one of Sola’s most memorable cases is one in which his client faced malpractice accusations from a plaintiff widower who was living in extremely sad circumstances. Sola’s client, a renowned neurosurgeon, had removed a benign tumor from a young mother who had recently given birth to her third child. The woman developed a blood clot in her leg and suffered a fatal pulmonary embolism after she was discharged from the hospital. The trial pivoted upon whether the woman— the plaintiff’s wife—had received appropriate medical attention after the surgery. In an additional tragedy for the family, Sola notes, the plaintiff widower was seriously injured and rendered quadriplegic in a swimming pool accident the year following his wife’s death. “We had to overcome the incredible sympathy the jury felt for the three young kids and widower in a wheelchair,” says Sola. “My adversary was one of the top plaintiffs’ lawyers and, additionally, there had been a Medical Malpractice Mediation Panel recommendation of ‘malpractice’ against my client.” In jury selection, Sola made a concerted effort to desensitize potential jurors to sympathy factors that could bias them unfairly in favor of the plaintiff’s case. The mediation panel system, in which a judgment was first rendered by a panel composed of a lawyer, a judge, and another surgeon, had not given the case a fair judgement, Sola showed, because the surgeon on the panel was his client’s competitor. Furthermore, Sola took the necessary steps to show the jury how damaging information from the personnel file of the main expert for the plaintiff’s case disqualified him as a credible witness. In the end, the efforts of Sola and his team were not in vain: the case was decided for their client and the jury awarded no damages. Sola is a frequent lecturer and writer on medical litigation, and has written on the subject for The New York Law Journal and Medical Economics. He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He has been rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell for more than 25 years and continuously listed in The Best Lawyers in America for personal injury law – defendants and medical malpractice law – defendants since 1999. www.bestlawyers.com |
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