Ed leads the firm’s Appellate & Motions Practice and oversees complex litigation matters. He has extensive experience in medical and legal malpractice, insurance coverage, and tort defense. His practice also encompasses New York Labor Law, product liability, land use and condemnation matters, commercial tenancy disputes, municipal law, and zoning and planning.

Ed has a proven track record of managing complex litigation and delivering successful outcomes through creative and strategic legal solutions in both commercial and personal line defenses. He actively monitors medical malpractice and Labor Law trials nationwide, working closely with local counsel to defend and resolve high exposure matters.

He has successfully challenged some of the largest and most complex damage verdicts in New York, including Sence v. Atoynatan, one of the first cases to invoke the New York Indemnity Fund and the state’s structured judgment law, and Fellin v. Sahgal, involving a $112 million medical malpractice verdict that was ultimately set aside and dismissed. His appellate and trial work has also broken new ground in insurance coverage (QBE Insurance v. Ajdo), New York Labor Law liability (Alvarado v. French Council LLC), and related areas.

Ed has briefed and argued hundreds of appeals in state and federal courts and is recognized for numerous significant decisions involving medical malpractice, professional liability, insurance coverage, negligence, premises liability, product liability, real estate brokerage liability, and New York procedural law.

Prior to private practice, Ed served as a law assistant to the Appellate Division, First Department, and as special counsel to the Medical Litigation Unit of the New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation. He was a contributing editor to the treatise New York Medical Malpractice and has served at the committee level on multiple New York State legislative initiatives addressing procedural and substantive inequities in the legal system.

A frequent lecturer to the courts and the bar, Ed is also active in his community. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Fordham Law Alumni Association and on multiple land use boards, including the Planning and Zoning Boards for the Town of Clarkstown. He also volunteers as an advisor to various boards in towns and villages throughout the region