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Area's
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Complex Litigation
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Class Action
- Toxic
Tort
- Employment
Law
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Insurance Law
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International Law
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Environmental Law
Education
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Fordham Law School (JD, 1972)
Editor, Urban law Journal
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Yale University (BA, 1968)
Bar
Admission's
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New York Bar
- U.S.
District Court, Southern, Northern and
Eastern Districts of New York
- United
States Court of Appeals,
2nd Circuit
- United
States Supreme Court
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Kenneth
F. McCallion has more than 30 years' experience in a wide range
of legal practice areas, including class actions, toxic torts,
wrongful death, employment law, insurance law, international
law, environmental law, and consumer protection. Mr. McCallion
is a graduate of Yale University and Fordham Law School and
is an assistant professor at Cardozo Law School.
Mr. McCallion has an outstanding record of victories and has
handled some of the country's largest, multi-million dollar
cases, including the Exxon Valdez oil spill case in Alaska,
the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant litigation, the Gulf War case,
and the Bhopal Gas disaster litigation.
As lead counsel in the federal class action litigation against
various French banks, Mr. McCallion successfully represented
Holocaust survivors and the families of victims, resulting in
the establishment of a substantial settlement fund and claims
procedure. Additionally, he represented thousands of World War
II victims of forced and slave labor in their successful settlement
claims against the German government and German industries.
This year Mr. McCallion won a major jury verdict against a pesticide
company on behalf of a family exposed to Dursban TC, a pesticide
manufactured by Dow Chemical Corp. Currently, Mr. McCallion
represents families of the victims of the American Airlines
crash Flight 587 and veterans of the first Gulf War (in 1991)
who were injured after exposure to chemicals sold to the Saddam
Hussein regime in Iraq by various European chemical companies.
Mr. McCallion also represents the families of victims of the
9/11 World Trade Center terrorist attack.
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