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Phillips - Steven J. Phillips FOUNDING PARTNER LinkedIn Steve is a founding partner of Phillips & Paolicelli, LLP. Over multiple decades, Steve he has built a nationwide reputation as a pioneer in the representation of the victims of wrongful workplace and environmental exposures to toxic substances. Steve’s many accomplishments span a broad spectrum. A leading courtroom lawyer, he has tried scores of cases to verdict in federal and state courts around the nation, routinely winning awards and collecting judgments in the millions and tens of millions of dollars. As a mark of respect by his peers as well as the courts before he has appeared, he has generally been named as lead trial counsel in mass tort cases successfully representing scores of plaintiffs in bellwether cases. Steve is also a leading appellate lawyer, who has appeared and argued precedent-setting cases in the highest state courts and in federal appellate courts throughout the nation. He is also a legal scholar and educator who has taught on the faculty at the Columbia University School of Law for the past sixteen years. Steve has lectured at the Epidemiology and Bio Statistics Department at McGill University about the relationship of science and law. Professionally, Steve’s passion involves the prosecution of complex and ground breaking litigations, giving voice and representation to the severely injured while taking on the largest and most powerful corporate defendants. A pioneer from the early days of the asbestos litigation, he has taking on not only those who manufactured and sold that deadly product, but also large pharmaceutical manufacturers, computer giants such as IBM, Intel, Motorola and AMD whose chemicals have inflicted appalling birth defects on the offspring of its workers, Philip Morris USA and other tobacco manufacturers, pesticide manufacturers such as Monsanto, and power companies such as AES, whose coal ash waste has devastated communities and caused disease and especially birth defects in exposed populations. Steve’s practice is both local and global in its reach. Among the clients he represents are children from both Argentina and the Dominican Republic suffering from appalling birth defects caused by grave misconduct by American corporations beyond our borders. Concerned not only to obtain compensation for those already injured, Steve has played a preeminent and pioneering role in shaping our law to save lives and prevent or minimize injuries. Over thirty years ago, in the groundbreaking and frequently cited case of Ayers v. Township of Jackson Steve established the right to medical surveillance as a remedy, permitting the victims of wrongful exposures to toxins, the chance to obtain medical examinations that might detect at the earliest moment developing disease so that it might be treated and cured. Continuing this important battle to this very day, Steve’s recent victory in Donovan v. Philip Morris USA established that in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, cigarette manufacturers might be held liable to provide low dose CT scans to long time smokers who are at high risk for developing lung cancer. Email: SPhillips@p2law.com Phone: 646-581-9220 https://www.p2law.com/diane-paolicelli daily 0.75 2025-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/625573fd83d8e40b2b3b2276/f19846a1-efb1-4422-8f8d-8aec76581849/Diane_Paolicelli_lo.jpg Diane Paolicelli - Diane Paolicelli FOUNDING PARTNER LinkedIn Diane Paolicelli is a founding partner of Phillips & Paolicelli, LLP, having devoted her legal career to seeking justice for those who fall victim to the negligence and wrongful misconduct of others. She champions the rights of children born with birth defects because of their parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals; workers who get cancer and other diseases due to their employers’ lack of regard for safety; patients who suffer unnecessarily or die because medical professionals failed to meet their responsibility to treat them with due care; consumers who are hurt by dangerous drugs and products; employees who are robbed of their dignity and livelihoods because of unlawful workplace discrimination; and survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Diane is an accomplished trial lawyer concentrating in medical malpractice, complex product liability, environmental torts, civil rights, construction accidents and other personal injury cases. She has achieved substantial verdicts and settlements in catastrophic injury cases, and has handled cases as diverse as the negligent administration of blood products, cancer misdiagnosis, cerebral palsy, surgical and obstetrical mistakes, and emergency room failures. Diane has represented countless people hurt by corporate malfeasance, obtaining substantial recoveries for victims of asbestos disease, Vioxx consumer fraud, and exposure to toxic chemicals in the semiconductor industry. Over the years the health and safety of women have been Diane’s special concern. Diane has successfully handled cases involving important women’s health issues like the DES and Dalkon Shield litigations, which concerned a defective pregnancy drug and a defective birth control device, respectively, which caused innumerable women to suffer infertility, pelvic inflammatory disease and cancer. She has also represented women who were victims of sexual harassment and on-the-job gender discrimination. Diane has focused on vindicating the rights of women wrongfully exposed to mercury, arsenic, and other toxic heavy metals and chemicals, which wreak havoc with their reproductive systems, and cause them to be infertile or bear children with horrific birth defects. She has a deep interest in protecting women and children injured by American corporations who shamelessly take their dangerous products abroad. To that end she has undertaken the representation of innocent families from the poorest areas of the Dominican Republic and Argentina, who were wrongfully exposed to the harmful constituents of coal ash waste and to pesticides used in tobacco farming. Diane has also promoted workplace safety issues by prosecuting death and injury cases under the Federal Employer Liability Act and the New York State Labor Law. She has advanced employee protection under federal, state, and city anti-discrimination legislation by representing workers who have suffered unequal treatment because of race, age, gender, or disability. Diane has secured millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements for her clients over the years. Some of her successes include: $26.8 million settlement, plus significant injunctive relief, in a high-profile discrimination class action lawsuit brought by thousands of Latino and African American officers against the New York City Police Department $7 million verdict for a young woman whose cancer went undiagnosed $3.4 million verdict for a patient infected with hepatitis C $2 million settlement for a worker injured in a crane accident $4 million settlement for a victim in a motorcycle accident Multiple seven and eight figure settlements for children with birth defects due to chemical exposure; Multiple confidential settlements for survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Diane graduated with honors in 1981 from the New York University School of Law. A member of the prestigious New York University School of Law Law Review, she authored a piece on disability discrimination, which was accepted for publication. At present, she is a member of several bar associations, including the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, the American Association for Justice and the National Employment Lawyers Association. She has lectured on diverse issues over the years, including sexual harassment, the development of economic loss proofs in employment discrimination cases, the presentation of expert causation testimony in toxic exposure cases, and the complexities of litigation involving coal ash waste. Email: DPaolicelli@p2law.com Phone: 646-581-9221 https://www.p2law.com/daniel-j-woodard daily 0.75 2025-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/625573fd83d8e40b2b3b2276/772eaecd-21a8-485b-9da1-f7fb870dee00/Daniel_Woodard_lo.jpg Daniel J. Woodard - Daniel J. Woodard PARTNER LinkedIn Dan is a Partner with Phillips & Paolicelli who specializes in litigating asbestos, mesothelioma, lung cancer, medical malpractice, wrongful death, infant lead paint poisoning, and other toxic tort and complex personal injury cases across the country. Dan has a diverse background and experience, successfully handling numerous types of complex and scientific tort cases, including representing individuals exposed to asbestos, asbestos contaminated talcum powder, benzene, lead based paint and other toxic substances and/or defective products. Dan also represents many children exposed in utero to reproductively toxic chemicals and substances causing profound birth defects. Dan has attained numerous multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements on behalf of his clients. In March 2022, Dan attained an $18 million dollar verdict for a British widow whose husband died as a result of his exposure to asbestos while working on a British ship, where he was exposed to an American company's asbestos containing products. Dan was instrumental attaining a ruling from the Appellate Division First Department in New York City the case of Pyle v. Pfizer, 183 A.D.3d 411 (2020), a case of first impression, established the right of a British citizen to bring an action against a New York Manufacturer of asbestos containing cosmetic talcum powder products in New York City. Dan also obtained a similar ruling for a young British woman, who was permitted to maintain her suit against Johnson & Johnson, in Florida . Pritchard v. Johnson & Johnson, et al. Case No.: CACE18027833 Division 27, Broward County Florida, 17th Judicial District In 2011, Dan teamed up with Founding Partner, Diane Paolicelli to obtain the highest jury verdict ($6,832,875.00) in the State of New York in a case involving a doctor or hospital failure to diagnose cancer in the case Luna v. Spadafora, et al., Supreme Court, Suffolk County, as determined by the New York Law Journal, published in New York Magazine. This entire verdict was affirmed on appeal in 2017 In 2008, Dan obtained a $8.5 million verdict on behalf of a young child, catastrophically injured from exposure to lead based paint due to his landlords’ negligence. This was one of the Top 10 highest jury verdicts in the State in 2008. Matias v. WDJ Realty 2008 Jury Verdicts LEXIS 36730. Dan has been included in the list of Super Lawyers®, a Thompson Reuters publication from 2011-2017 and 2020-2022. Thompson Reuters uses a selection and criteria process focused on nominations, vetting those nominations which includes but are not limited to researching verdicts, settlements, honors and awards, and doing independent research of the nominees and then voting on the nominees to be selected. Only 5% of lawyers in each practice area are selected for inclusion. Dan lives with his wife and 3 children in Mountainside, New Jersey, after being born and raised in Oceanside, New York. Email: DWoodard@p2law.com Phone: 646-581-9223 https://www.p2law.com/victoria-phillips daily 0.75 2025-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/625573fd83d8e40b2b3b2276/f1b8d723-34ac-4a65-86bd-0bee1e96008c/Vicki_Phillips_lo.jpg Victoria Phillips - Victoria Phillips PARTNER LinkedIn A Partner at Phillips & Paolicelli, LLP, since 2016, Victoria Phillips concentrates on complex litigation with an emphasis on product liability, toxic exposures, and class actions. Before becoming a civil litigator, Victoria was an Assistant District Attorney at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. As an Assistant District Attorney, Victoria spent two years as a member of the Appeals Bureau, where she prepared appellate briefs and represented the District Attorney at oral arguments before the Appellate Division, First Department and the New York State Court of Appeals. Victoria subsequently was assigned to the Special Prosecutions Bureau, where she investigated and prosecuted a variety of white-collar crimes including grand larceny, forgery, and elder abuse. Victoria is admitted to practice law in both New York and New Jersey. She graduated magna cum laude from Williams College in 2001, and from Columbia Law School in 2004. At Columbia Law School, Victoria was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Articles Editor for the Human Rights Law Review, and President of the Columbia Law Women’s Association. Following her graduation from law school, Victoria served as law clerk to the Honorable Barry Albin of the New Jersey Supreme Court. Email: VPhillips@p2law.com Phone: 646-581-9224 https://www.p2law.com/melissa-l-stewart daily 0.75 2025-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/625573fd83d8e40b2b3b2276/a9033664-9237-40dd-b760-d86028309993/Melissa_Stewart_lo.jpg Melissa L. Stewart - Melissa L. Stewart PARTNER LinkedIn A Partner at Phillips & Paolicelli since 2016, Melissa L. Stewart focuses on toxic exposure, consumer fraud, mass torts, and complex litigation. After graduating from law school, Melissa clerked for the Honorable Edward C. Prado of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. In private practice Melissa has represented families of teenagers who committed suicide due to their use of SSRI antidepressant drugs for which the drug manufacturers failed to warn of the potential for increased suicidal thoughts, as well people who were injured as a result of using drugs such as Vioxx, Bextra and Celebrex. Melissa has also litigated several complex consumer fraud, securities, and ERISA class actions, including one of the largest securities class actions ever litigated, In re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation, No. 21 MC 92 (S.D.N.Y.). Most recently, Melissa has focused her practice on birth defect injuries due to exposure to toxic substances, and injuries related to the improper marketing and use of medical devices. Melissa earned both a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish (1992) and a Master of Science in Community and Regional Planning (1999) from the University of Texas at Austin. Ms. Stewart earned her law degree from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (2002) where she was named the Outstanding Law Graduate by the National Association of Women Lawyers. In law school, Melissa was a member and Executive Editor for the Cardozo Journal of International & Comparative Law, a member of the Cardozo Trial Team, a Senator in the Student Bar Association, President of the International Law Students Association, and the founding President of the Cardozo Chapter of the American Constitution Society. Melissa is admitted to practice in New York, the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Melissa is on the Board of Directors of the stageFARM off-broadway theater group and La Isla Foundation. Melissa is fluent in Spanish. Email: MStewart@p2law.com Phone: 646-581-9225 https://www.p2law.com/ari-l-taub daily 0.75 2025-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/625573fd83d8e40b2b3b2276/7bc8e273-36e0-46e6-ab4b-ff22a80c505a/Ari+L.+Taub.jpg Ari L. Taub - Ari L. Taub PARTNER LinkedIn A Partner at Phillips & Paolicelli, LLP, since its inception, Ari focuses his practice on medical malpractice, complex personal injury cases, product liability, child abuse cases, and birth defects litigation that result from toxic exposures. He has litigated in both State and Federal courts throughout the States of New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. Ari has represented hundreds of clients in various stages of litigation, from initiating suit, to motions practice, through trial, and in appeals before the New York State appellate courts. Ari is admitted to practice law in the New York and New Jersey state courts, as well as in the United States District Courts for the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of New York, and the District of New Jersey. He received his law degree from Columbia Law School in 2011, where he earned the Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar award for both the 2010 and 2011 academic years. During his second year at Columbia, Ari was a member of the Columbia Business Law Review, and was an editor for that Journal in his third year of law school. Ari received his Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, in Psychology, from Touro College, in 2008. Email: ATaub@p2law.com Phone: 646-581-9228 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/625573fd83d8e40b2b3b2276/cdb3c2df-67cf-4ab7-a970-6c22d742852b/mybadge.jpg Ari L. Taub - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/625573fd83d8e40b2b3b2276/c2949bf8-7abc-4e0d-8ca2-6ac24a4a7121/attorney-badge-top-20-verdicts-new-york-2022.jpg Ari L. Taub https://www.p2law.com/yitzchak-fogel daily 0.75 2025-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/625573fd83d8e40b2b3b2276/665d72d2-f1ec-4464-a066-8cac06e9b163/Yitzchak_Fogel_lo.jpg Yitzchak Fogel - Yitzchak Fogel PARTNER LinkedIn A Partner at Phillips & Paolicelli, LLP, Yitzchak Fogel focuses his practice on cases involving complex personal injury, medical malpractice, product liability, motor vehicle collisions, and birth defects that result from toxic exposures. Yitzchak is also a paramedic who volunteers with Kids of Courage, an organization that specializes in medically supervised trips for children and young adults with serious medical diagnoses. Prior to joining Phillips & Paolicelli, LLP, Yitzchak practiced in the litigation department of a major international law firm, where he defended pharmaceutical class actions. Yitzchak is admitted to practice law in the New York and New Jersey state and federal courts. He received his law degree from Columbia Law School in 2011, where he earned the Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar award for both the 2010 and 2011 academic years. During his second year at Columbia, Yitzchak was a member of the Human Rights Law Review. Yitzchak received his Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Brooklyn College in 2008. Email: YFogel@p2law.com Phone: 646-581-9238 https://www.p2law.com/marc-c-gorrie daily 0.75 2025-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/625573fd83d8e40b2b3b2276/35835085-6fb5-4862-8a75-773f1ceccc4b/Marc_Gorrie_lo.jpg Marc C. Gorrie - Marc C. Gorrie ASSOCIATE Marc C. Gorrie joined Phillips & Paolicelli as an Associate in 2019, focusing his practice on complex federal litigation and protecting the rights of investors. Prior to joining Phillips & Paolicelli, Marc practiced as a litigation attorney with a prominent firm dedicated to representing the rights of defrauded investors. He identified and investigated potential violations of the federal securities laws and focused his practice on a major securities fraud litigation with a prominent New York law firm. Marc is a 2005 graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and 2010 graduate of Indiana University Maurer School of Law – Bloomington (JD) where he held a research fellowship in legal ethics and was consistently on the Dean’s List. He is also a 2012 graduate of the University of Lund, Sweden (LLM, in conjunction with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law) where he earned honors marks, lectured on U.S. Legal Ethics and on Federal Indian Law, and delivered his thesis. 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He graduated from Providence College in 2014, and from St. John’s University School of Law in 2018. Email: MMcConnell@p2law.com Phone: 646-695-3057 https://www.p2law.com/dan-demeo daily 0.75 2025-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/625573fd83d8e40b2b3b2276/e6a9a77f-78f6-41e0-b429-4b0b4a95947b/Dan_DeMeo_lo.jpg Dan DeMeo - Dan DeMeo ASSOCIATE An associate at Phillips & Paolicelli, LLP, Dan primarily focuses his practice on asbestos litigation that results from toxic exposures. Inspired by his own personal injury lawsuit as a teenager, Dan has aggressively litigated on behalf of his clients in Courts throughout the State of New York, from intake up through appeals. Dan received his law degree from St. John’s University School of Law in 2020, where he earned early admission based on his academic credentials and became one of the youngest law students in the history of the school. Dan received his Bachelor of Science degree, in Criminal Justice, from St. John’s University in 2018 where he was consistently a member of the Dean’s List. Dan is also a member of the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Dan resides on Staten Island, where he was born and raised. Email: DDeMeo@p2law.com Phone: 646-581-3059 https://www.p2law.com/daniel-rubin daily 0.75 2025-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/625573fd83d8e40b2b3b2276/3577cef2-394e-4f46-a2e5-276c29932b8b/Daniel_Rubin_lo.jpg Daniel Rubin - Daniel Rubin ASSOCIATE Daniel Rubin is an Associate Attorney at Phillips & Paolicelli, LLP. Mr. Rubin has dedicated his career to helping those injured by asbestos-containing products, medical malpractice, police assault, defective products, and general negligence cases. Mr. Rubin graduated cum laude from Pace University School of Law, where he was a senior associate on the Pace International Law Review and a trial advocate on the John Marshall Trial Team. While in law school, Dan worked as a law clerk for the Honorable Sam Watkins, Jr., Village Justice of Croton-on-Hudson, an intern for the Honorable Mary Anne Scatteretico-Naber, Judge of the Yonkers Family Court, and as an intern at the New York State Attorney General’s Office. Prior to joining Phillips & Paolicelli, LLP, Mr. Rubin focused on litigating complex medical malpractice claims, as well as personal injury, product liability, motor vehicle accident, labor law, and police excessive force claims. Mr. Rubin also has experience working in construction law, trusts and estates, and matrimonial law. Dan is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey, and is admitted to practice before the federal courts in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey. 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Curley joined Phillips & Paolicelli as of Counsel in 2023, focusing his practice on mass tort litigation. Prior to joining Phillips & Paolicelli, Russell was a state prosecutor for the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office and the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office, where he oversaw complex financial fraud investigations, public corruption investigations and prosecuted a wide variety of cases including murder, racketeering, money laundering, theft, tax evasion, drug trafficking, bribery and mortgage fraud. Russell served as Section Chief of the Special Prosecutions unit and the Gang & Drug Trafficking unit, where he oversaw a variety of complex investigative techniques including wiretaps, undercover operations, cooperating informants, and the use of GPS tracking devices. Russell tried numerous jury trials to verdict, and handled appeals before the New Jersey Supreme Court, and the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division. Russell is a 1994 graduate of Brown University and 1997 graduate of Rutgers University School of Law – Newark, and is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, as well as the United States Supreme Court. Email: RCurley@p2law.com Phone: 646-581-9236 https://www.p2law.com/rebecca-schwartz daily 0.75 2025-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/625573fd83d8e40b2b3b2276/4f85e444-a7ed-4d35-bd51-250494f3f39d/Rebecca.jpg Rebecca Schwartz - Rebecca Schwartz ASSOCIATE Rebecca Schwartz joined Phillips & Paolicelli, LLP as an associate attorney in 2025. As a dedicated advocate for survivors of abuse, Ms. Schwartz concentrates on Child Victim’s Act matters. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Schwartz focused on litigating Child Victim’s Act cases. She also has experience in complex commercial litigation. Ms. Schwartz graduated cum laude from Northeastern University in 2013, and from St. John’s University School of Law in 2017. Ms. Schwartz is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey. She is a member of the New York State Bar Association. Email: RSchwartz@p2law.com Phone: 646-581-9222 https://www.p2law.com/nicole-pierre daily 0.75 2025-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/625573fd83d8e40b2b3b2276/11bf64db-2c30-4c8d-8722-3fddf3a140d7/Nicole.jpg Nicole Pierre - Nicole Pierre ASSOCIATE An associate at Phillips & Paolicelli, LLP since 2025, Nicole Pierre concentrates on medical malpractice, industrial toxic exposure and Child Victims Act matters. Before joining the firm, Nicole was an Assistant Corporation Counsel for the NYC Law Department and later senior counsel for NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation, where she handled WTC-related personal injury and complex medical malpractice cases. 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