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Steven J. Phillips
A senior partner and founding
member of Levy Phillips & Konigsberg, Steven J. Phillips heads
the firm's trial and appellate practice. He enjoys a nationwide
reputation as a plaintiffs lawyer representing victims of occupational
and environmental hazards. Steve's pioneering work in the prosecution
of groundwater contamination, nuclear radiation, and asbestos
litigation has yielded precedent setting successes.
Steve
has served as lead trial counsel and appellate counsel in numerous
mass tort litigations including: sbestos exposure at The Brooklyn
Navy Yard, other New York shipyards, and among construction workers;
groundwater contamination in Jackson Township, New Jersey; birth
defect and cancer litigation on behalf of semiconductor workers
and their families; and veterans exposed to nuclear radiation.
Steve has won numerous
individual verdicts in the millions and tens of millions of dollars.
An adjunct
faculty member at Columbia University's School of Law, Steve teaches
a seminar in Advanced Tort Practice. He also participates in teaching
the Profession of Law Ethics Course.
Aside
from his writing on professional subjects, Steve is an author
of nonfiction and fiction books. In the United States, his work
has been published by Random House and Doubleday, and, in the
United Kingdom, by MacMillan. He has also written shorter pieces
that have appeared in popular periodicals.
After graduating
from Williams College in 1968 and Columbia University's School
of Law in 1971, Steve worked as an Assistant District Attorney
in Bronx County, where he was promoted to Deputy Chief of Homicide
Prosecutions. In that capacity, he successfully tried 17 murder
cases-two of which involved the murder of police officers. He
successfully investigated and prosecuted police officers who beat
a prisoner to death while in custody. He also created and designed
the first program in New York for the videotaping of homicide
confessions. Later, while in private practice, Steve has acted
on a pro bono basis in the defense of capital cases.
Steve has briefed and argued many cases before the New York State Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fifth, and District of Columbia Circuit. He has also authored an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund before the Supreme Court of the United States. His leading appellate cases have included:
Ayers v. Township of Jackson, 106 N.J. 557
(1987) [establishing right to medical surveillance damages]
Jaffe v. United States, 663 F.2d 1226 (3rd
Cir. 1980) [vindicating servicemen=s rights to receive notification
and medical care in the event of nuclear exposure]
Johnson v. Celotex, 889 F.2d 1281 (2nd Cir.
1990) [establishing punitive damage standards for product
liability actions]
In Re Brooklyn Naval Shipyard Asbestos Litigation,
971 F.2d 831 (2nd Cir. 1992) [establishing trial standards
for the consolidation of mass tort actions]
Blanco v. AT&T, 90 N.Y.2d 757, 666 N.Y.S.2d
536 (1997) [establishing statute of limitations rules for
repetitive stress injuries]
Ruffing et al. [Curtis] v. Union Carbide Corporation
et al., 308 A.D.2d 526 (2nd Dept. 2003) [establishing an infant's
right to sue for birth defect(s), if false or misleading statements
were made to parents by employers or medical professionals]
This website is designed for informational purposes to educate people about what they can do in the face of personal injury. If you have been harmed because of the actions of others, remember, the size of a legal opponent does not matter, you have rights.
