Joseph P. Awad - Garden City, NY

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

Current Employment Position(s)

• Founder and Senior Partner

Past Positions

• Silberstein, Awad & Miklos, P.C., Partner, 1984 - 2023

Classes and Seminars

• Faculty Lecturer to the Judiciary, New York State Judicial Institute, 2002-2006
  
• "Proximate Cause in Negligent Security Cases"
  
• "Trial of First Personal Injury Lawsuit"
  
• "The Use of a Paralegal in a Personal Injury Law Practice"
  
• "Discovery Update"
  
• "Openings in a Medical Malpractice Case"
  
• "Health Care for Minorities in New York State"
  
• "Depositions"
  
• "Labor Law 241(6)"
  
• "Openings"
  
• "Voir Dire"
  
• "Preliminary Conference Negotiations and the Law"
  
• "Construction Site Accidents and Federal Jurisdiction"
  
• "Daubert, Frye, Expert Witness Testimony in NYS Supreme Court"
  
• "Ethics Update"
  
• "Motions and Pleadings Update"
  
• "Metaphors and Use of Linguistics in Jury Trials"
  
• "Summations"
  
• "Law Firm Advertising and the First Amendment"
  
• "Article 31 of the CPLR and Discovery"
  
• "Negligent Security and Supervision"

Pro Bono Activities

• 9/11 Victim’s Compensation Fund, Long Island Section

Representative Cases

• Kletnieks v. Hertz, 54 A.D.3d 660 (2nd Dept., 2008)
• Durney v. Terk, 42 A.D.3d 335 (1st Dept., 2007)
• Dowd v. City of New York, 40 A.D.3d 908 (2nd Dept., 2007)
• Jumawan v. Schnitt, 35 A.D.3d 382 (2nd Dept., 2006)
• Vassell v. Magno, 30 A.D.3d 406 (2nd Dept., 2006)
• Ramos v. Nouveau Industries, Inc., 29 A.D.3d 555 (2nd Dept., 2006)
• Spano v. Bertocci, 22 A.D.3d 828 (2nd Dept., 2005)
• Patterson v. New York City Transit Authority, 5 A.D.3d 454 (2nd Dept., 2004)
• Michalowski v. D’Alessandro, 2 A.D.3d 508 (2nd Dept., 2003)
• Maccaro v. Legouri, 306 A.D.2d 323 (2nd Dept., 2003)
• David v. County of Suffolk, 1 N.Y.3d 525 (N.Y., 2003)
• Stokes v. New York Medical Group, 304 A.D.2d 449 (1st Dept. 2003)
• David v. County of Suffolk, 295 A.D.2d 556 (2nd Dept., 2002)
• Spano v. Bertocci, 299 A.D.2d 335 (2nd Dept., 2002)
• Quinn v. Nyack Hospital, 286 A.D.2d 675 (2nd Dept., 2001)
• Patterson v. New York City Transit Authority, 276 A.D.2d 474 (2nd Dept., 2000)
• Lugo v. Angle of Green, Inc., 268 A.D.2d 567 (2nd Dept., 2000)
• Lounda Foreman v. B&L Properties Company, 261 A.D.2d 301, 691 (1st Dept., 1999)
• Aghabi v. Sebro, 256 A.D.2d 287 (2nd Dept., 1998)
• Serfaty v. New York City Transit Authority, 254 A.D.2d 476 (2nd Dept., 1998)
• Slutskaya v. Landau, 250 A.D.2d 594 (2nd Dept., 1998)
• Cordero v. City of New York, 236 A.D. 2d 577 (2nd Dept., 1997)
• Ramnarine v. New York City Bd. of Educ., 231 A.D.2d 724 (2nd Dept., 1996)
• Harrell v. County of Nassau, 227 A.D.2d 590 (2nd Dept., 1996)
• Farrukh by Farrukh v. Board of Educ. of the City of New York, 227 A.D.2d 440 (2nd Dept., 1996)
• Epstein v. Eastman Kodak Co., Inc., 225 A.D.2d 516 (2nd Dept., 1996)
• Torrado v. Lutheran Medical Center, 198 A.D.2d 346 (2nd Dept., 1993)
• Staines v. Nassau Queens Medical Group, 176 A.D.2d 718 (2 Dept., 1991)
• Ruiz v. New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., 165 A.D.2d 75 (1st Dept., 1991)

Published Works

Articles

• AWAD, DISCOVERY OF NEW YORK STATE APPELLATE DECISIONS ANNUAL REVIEW, 10 VOLUME SERIES, 2014-2023
  
• AWAD, NEW YORK MEDICAL MALPRACTICE ANSWERS TO 100 COMMON QUESTIONS, publication pending
  
• National Crime Victims Lawyers Bar Association Teaching Brochures
  
• Expert Witnesses pamphlet co-authored with a Justice of the Supreme Court
  

Bar Admissions

• New York, 1981

Specialties and Certifications

• Board Certified Trial Attorney by National Board of Trial Advocacy, August 2002

Other Affiliations

• New York State Trial Lawyers Association, President, 2006 - 2007
• New York State Trial Lawyers Association, Sustaining Member
• LawPAC, Chair, 2003 - Present
• American Association for Justice, Governor, 2004 - 2011
• American Association for Justice, Sustaining Member
• National Crime Victims Bar Association, Director, 2002 - 2009
• New York State Bar Association, Trial Lawyers Section, Member
• Bronx County Bar Association, Member
• Queens County Bar Association, Member
• American Bar Association
• National Crime Victim Bar Association, Member
• New York State Governor's Medical Malpractice Task Force, Member, 2007 - 2011
• New York State Court of Appeals Judicial Screening Committee for Nassau and Suffolk Counties, Member, 2006 - 2011
• New York State Trial Lawyers Association Court of Appeals Judicial Screening Committee, 2003 - Present