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Fred Hagans, Partner, Hagans, Burdine, Montgomery, Rustay, & Winchester is certified in both civil trial and personal injury law with over 30 years of successful legal experience. He success record speaks for itself¡¦ More than 100 settlements or verdicts in excess of $1 million¡¦ Plus successfully defending multi-million dollar cases.
His firm handles civil litigation for both commercial claims and personal injury. In the commercial litigation area, he has successfully handled cases involving intellectual property, contract disputes, insurance coverage and bad faith, shareholder disputes, and employment related disputes. In the personal injury area, he has successfully handled cases involving personal injury and wrongful death where the claims involve product liability, product failures and defects, workplace injuries, vehicle collisions, railroad crossings, and medical malpractice. He has also successfully handled cases involving legal malpractice and defamation.
Fred is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law and in Civil Trial Law and is a member of several organizations of trial attorneys, notably, the American Board of Trial Advocates and the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He has served on several committees for the State Bar of Texas and the Houston Bar Association. They include the District 4-B Grievance Committee, the Supreme Court on Professionalism Committee, the Texas Lawyers Creed Committee, and the Texas Supreme Court Task Force Committee for the revision of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. He has served as a Special Assistant in the State Bar of Texas Disciplinary Counsel program. He has given many speeches and written many publications pertaining to various issues in trial law. Fred has been appointed
to the Judiciary Relations Committee of the State Bar of Texas for the term of 2004-2007. In addition to serving in these Bar-related activities, Fred has served as the Past President of the Gulf Coast Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Marc Bern, a Senior Partner at Napolli, Bern, & Ripka LLP legal career spans over 30 years. He has tried more than 100 cases to jury verdict, and has settled hundreds of cases for amounts in excess of $1,000,000; total firm settlements and client recoveries exceed one billion dollars. Mr. Bern is also a member of the Million Dollar Advocates forum.
Mr. Bern has been profiled in Who's Who in America Law. He has appeared on Court TV as Guest Commentator; on televisions shows including Geraldo Rivera, Phil Donahue, Montel Williams; and on news broadcasts for ABC-TV, NBC-TV and CBS-TV. Additionally, Mr. Bern has been interviewed in the Wall Street Journal; the New York Times; the Philadelphia Enquirer; the New York Post; the New York Daily News; New York Newsday; the Southampton Press and Forbes Magazine.
Napoli Bern Ripka, LLP (Personal Injury Attorneys of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and throughout the United States) has a cumulative total of over 60 years of experience in prosecuting personal injury actions on behalf of its clients. The firm¡¯s litigation practice is focused on mass tort, medical malpractice, products liability, and negligence actions. Their New York personal injury attorneys have been instrumental in the development of new law in the area of personal injury law and consumer rights.
Some of the topics Marc discusses today are:
WTC LITIGATION in which the firm is leading the way in representing rescue workers who have suffered lingering health effects after responding to the World Trade Center attacks.
GREENPOINT NEWTON CREEK OIL SPILL - a environmental oil spill of such major catastrophic proportions that it rivals the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Greenpoint is located between North Henry Street, Norman Avenue, and Newtown Creek and has been heavily industrialized and the site of various petroleum industries for nearly 140 years.
You can contact:
Fred Hagans
(713) 222-2700
www.hbb-law.com
Marc Berns
(
212) 267-3700
www.nblawfirm.com
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