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Born and raised in New York City, Tom Tormey has been trying cases in the New York and Federal Courts for over thirty-nine years. After graduating from St. John’s University Law School, he began his career in 1978 as an Assistant District Attorney in the Office of the Manhattan District Attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau. Under Mr. Morgenthau, Mr. Tormey started out as an ADA in a Trial Bureau. Eventually he worked his way up to become the Bureau Chief of the elite Special Investigations Bureau under the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York, the now United...

Christopher R. LoPalo is an experienced litigator who manages the firm’s Pharmaceutical and World Trade Center Departments. He is a personal injury attorney whose primary focus is on the litigation of complex mass tort litigations involving products liability, personal injury litigation, medical malpractice cases, wrongful death litigation, environmental, negligence, and class actions all over the United States. Mr. LoPalo has been an integral player in successfully recovering hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of the firm’s clients since joining the Napoli Shkolnik PLLC.

Mr. LoPalo’s clients typically include individuals throughout the country who were seriously injured by large corporations...

A longtime resident of New York City, Dorianne Van Dyke attended NYU and New York Law School. While working toward her juris doctor, Dorianne Van Dyke began working in the legal department at Newsweek Magazine assisting with various intellectual property issues such as licensing, clearance, fair use, and general usage rights.

She remained with Newsweek for two years following law school before accepting an advisory position with the Media Law Resource Center ("MLRC"), a nonprofit that fights for the First Amendment rights of content creators and media organizations.

After four years with MLRC, Dorianne entered the private sector, serving...

Alexandria Awad is a litigation attorney in Tiveron Law’s Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice departments. Ms. Awad has dedicated her legal career to representing clients and their families in personal injury matters, including motor vehicle crashes, premises liability, construction site and workplace injury, mesothelioma, and medical malpractice actions. Alexandria earned her Juris Doctor from The George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. During law school, she served as a law clerk with the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Coast Guard, and to the Honorable Paula Feroleto, Administrative Judge of the Eighth District of New York. Ms....

David Harry Rosenberg is an Avvo rated top employment lawyer in the Long Island/New York City area. In 2016, he was selected for inclusion in the Who's Who: Top Attorneys of North America publication. Also in 2016, the American Society of Legal Advocates selected Mr. Rosenberg as a Top 40 under 40 Labor & Employment attorney. Mr. Rosenberg was recently published in the New York Times as a Rising Star for New York Metro's Top Lawyers. He was given an Excellence in Practice award from New York's Super Lawyers and was selected as one of...

Mr. Tueller graduated cum laude from the University of Utah in 1964 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics. He received his law degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1967. He practiced estate, trust, and tax law in New York City for eight years before moving to Utah, where—for another eight years—he was counsel to an organization now known as LDS Philanthropies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is the author of five books about tax-exempt planning and charitable tax deductions published by the Taft Group of Kensington, MD...

Kobelah Svensen Bennah comes alive for a righteous cause. As a trial attorney, he relishes the power of the pen and the jury to make up for a loss. In his work at the Law Offices of Falanga & Chalker, Kobelah is responsive, careful, and aggressive. In that role, his joy is making a meaningful difference for clients. Consequently, each client’s problem is important. He listens. Then he uses every legal tool available to value the loss, mend what can be mended, and hold those responsible to account. A Harvard Law graduate, Kobelah Svensen Bennah received an introduction to recovery litigation from...

Spencer Aronfeld, is a board-certified civil trial lawyer who has earned international recognition as being a “lawyer for the people.” Born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Wichita, Kansas, Aronfeld graduated cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law in 1991. Upon graduation, he founded his own firm, Aronfeld Trial Lawyers, based in Coral Gables, Florida.

He has dedicated his life to representing individuals against corporate giants, such as Carnival Cruise Lines, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Celebrity Cruise Lines, Disney Cruise Lines, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Holland America Cruise Lines, Bayer, Johnson & Johnson, Stryker, Target, Publix, Walmart, Mt....

Clay Leland is an attorney for the Montana Secretary of State, Christi Jacobsen, and is licensed to practice law in Federal and State courts. Clay previously worked as a Deputy County Attorney handling civil litigation in Ravalli County, Montana. He has served in legal positions at The White House in the Office of White House Counsel for President Donald Trump and at the United States Senate for U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Clay graduated cum laude from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. He went on to earn his Juris Doctor from...

Dan was admitted to the Iowa Bar in 2004, and has been practicing law in Iowa and throughout the United States since then. Shortly after graduating from law school, Dan had his first felony jury trial, which resulted in an acquittal on a forgery charge in Johnson County, Iowa. Two years later, Dan represented a woman facing child endangerment charges and gained valuable jury trial experience on a case that he argued all the way to the Iowa Supreme Court (State v. Mitchell, 757 N.W.2d 431, Iowa 2008).

Dan’s next appearance before the Iowa Supreme Court resulted in...