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Sheila Birnbaum
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Practice Areas
- Appeals & Appellate
- Insurance Claims
- Personal Injury
- Products Liability
Additional Practice Areas
- Complex Mass Tort Litigation
- Crisis Management
- General Civil
- Health Care Enforcement and Litigation
- Insurance Bad Faith
Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
- New York
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Professional Experience
- Partner
- Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
- Current
- Partner
- Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
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- Adjunct Professor of Law
- New York University School of Law
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- Associate Dean of the Graduate Division
- New York University School of Law
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- Professor of Law
- New York University School of Law
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Education
- Hunter College
- LL.D.
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- New York University School of Law
- LL.B
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- Hunter College
- M.A.
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- Hunter College
- B.A.
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Awards
- Woman Leader in the Law
- Legal Leaders
- Star Individual
- Nationwide – Product Liability & Mass Torts, Chambers USA
- one of the 100 most outstanding members of the legal profession
- The National Law Journal
- one of the 10 Most Admired Product Liability Attorneys
- Law360
- Chosen as the leading product liability lawyer in the world
- The International Who’s Who of Product Liability Defence Lawyers
- 2005-Present
Professional Associations
- American Bar Association
- Member
- Current
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- Advisory Committee to the Restatement of the Law of Product Liability and the Complex Litigation Project
- Member
- Current
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- Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert
- First President and Founding Member
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- Commission on Fiduciary Appointments
- Chair
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- Activities: appointed by Chief Justice Kaye
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- American Law Institute
- Member of Council
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- Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Rules and Civil Procedure, U.S. Supreme Court
- Member
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- Activities: appointed by Chief Justice Rehnquist
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- House of Delegates
- Member
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- Special Committee on the Future of the Legal Profession
- Member
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- Second Circuit Task Force for Racial, Ethnic and Gender Fairness
- Executive Director
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- New York State Judicial Commission on Minorities
- Member
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- Activities: appointed by Judge Sol Wachtler, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
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- Second Circuit Committee on the Improvement of Civil Litigation
- Member
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- Association of the Bar of the City of New York
- Vice President
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- Council of the Section of Torts and Insurance Practice
- Member
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- New York State Advisory Committee on Civil Practice
- Chair
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- New York Women’s Bar Association
- President
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Publications
Articles & Publications
- Court of Appeals: Examining Duty, Causation, Privilege Issues
- New York Law Journal
- U.S. Supreme Court Holds That State Punitive Damages Awards That Punish for Harm Caused to Non-parties to the Lawsuit Violate Due Process
- Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
- Court Declines Litigants' Invitations To Broaden Boundaries of New York Law
- New York Law Journal
- Skadden Adds Another Win to String of Significant Appellate Victories for State Farm
- Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Websites & Blogs
- Website
- Website
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