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Eric S. Rothman
Managing Partner of Eric S. Rothman, P.C. Previously, Mr. Rothman was a Managing Director at UBS Securities LLC where he did extensive work on structured products and credit derivatives. Before joining UBS, he was an SVP at Assured Guaranty Corp. During his six years at Assured Guaranty, where he worked on insurance and derivative transactions and established an office in London, England.
Prior to joining Assured Guaranty, Mr. Rothman was an Associate at Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, LLP, in the Structured Finance and Asset Securitization Group. He also has experience in bankruptcy and corporate reorganization. Prior to joining Kaye, Scholer, Mr. Rothman was Law Clerk to Judge Thomas J. Aquilino, Jr. for the United States Court of International Trade.
Bar Admissions: New York and New Jersey; United States Court, Southern District of New York; United States Court of International Trade
J.D.: The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva Univesity, 1994
Honors: Alexander Fellow; Belkin Scholar; Schwartz Judicial Scholar
Academic Scholarship: Study of International Business Transactions and Constitutional Law at the Cardozo International Institute for Law, Trade and Social Change in Budapest, Hungary
B.A.: University of Michigan, Economics, 1989Mr. Rothman has lectured at seminars and has participated on panel discussions at a multitude of conferences throughout the U.S. and Europe.
Stanley J. Sanders graduated Brooklyn Law School in 1966 and was admitted to practice law in New York State in 1967. He is a member of the Nassau County Bar Association, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, and the American Trial Lawyers Association. He has been admitted to practice in the Federal Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York. Additionally, Mr. Sanders is an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.
Among his charitable activities, Mr. Sanders was the Executive Vice President and Fund Raising Vice President for a total of four years at the Shelter Rock Jewish Center and is a member of the Board of Directors for that institution. He is on the Board of the Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center and the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Bi-County Political Action Committee, and has held important positions in the United Jewish Appeal/ Federation including serving as a member of the North Shore Cabinet and Long Island Lawyers Division. Stanley is on the Board of Directors for the Holocaust Memorial and Educational Center of Nassau County.
Phyllis L. Sanders graduated Brooklyn Law School in 1984 and was admitted to practice law in New York State in 1985. She is a member of the Nassau County Bar Association, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and the American Trial Lawyers Association. She has been admitted to practice in Federal Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York. Mrs. Sanders is a member of the American Arbitration Association.
For fifteen years prior to becoming an attorney, she taught remedial reading in the New York City public school system. Mrs. Sanders has a Masters Degree from City University of New York with a specialization in remedial reading.
Among her charitable activities, she served on the Board of Directors of the Rehabilitation Institute and was a member of the Long Island Cabinet for the State of Israel Bonds for four years. She also created a scholarship at the Brooklyn Law School. Mrs. Sanders was the Chair-person for the Long Island State of Israel Bonds for over two years. She is also a member of the Bi-County Political Action Committee and is involved in the United Jewish Appeal/ Federation Long Island Lawyers Division, as well as the Professional Women's Division. Phyllis Sanders, along with her husband Stanley, created a scholarship endowment at the Jewish Theological Seminary.
Douglas H. Sanders graduated from Duke University with honors in 1996. He attended George Washington University Law School where he graduated from in June of 2000. Douglas is admitted to practice law in the State of New York.
After graduating from Duke University, Douglas worked at SSBWV&G for a year as a paralegal before enrolling in law school.
While in law school, Douglas participated in the Elder Law Clinic, helping to educate local District of Columbia residents regarding their Medicare and Medicaid rights. Additionally, he participated in the Immigration Law Clinic where he helped asylum refugees apply for citizenship in the United States. During the summer of 1997, Douglas clerked at the Department of Justice, Torts Division in Washington, D.C.
Meryl Sanders Viener specializes in Lead Paint Poisoning Litigation. She graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 1992 and was admitted to practice law in the State of New York in 1993. Ms. Viener, daughter of Phyllis and Stanley Sanders, joined the firm in 1994. Ms. Viener is a member of the Nassau County, New York County, Metropolitan Women's, New York State, New York State Trial Lawyers and American Trial Lawyers Associations.
Ms. Viener has lectured in multiple arenas on the lead poisoning problem including before the American Trial Lawyers Association and the Nassau County Bar Association. She is also a board member of the New York Coalition to End Lead Poisoning.
Ms. Viener has helped more than a hundred lead poisoning victims obtain compensation from their land lords and the City of New York for their injuries.
Marc D. Grossman graduated from The University of Michigan in 1989. After completing Brooklyn Law School and Baruch Business School's J.D./M.B.A. program while interning at the Law Department of the United Nations, Mr. Grossman became an Associate and later a Partner in the law firm of Mergel, Tubman & Grossman in New York City. Mr. Grossman is also a Founding Partner of Sanders and Grossman P.C., and Baker Sanders Barshay Grossman Fass Muhlstock & Neuwirth, LLC, and a Senior Partner at Sanders, Sanders, Block, Woycik, Viener & Grossman, P.C. and Sanders Viener and Grossman LLP.
Since beginning his law career in 1993, Mr. Grossman has focused primarily on representing large groups of plaintiffs against common defendants. After six years of practicing plaintiff�s personal injury in State and Federal Courts in New York and New Jersey, Mr. Grossman founded the law firm of Sanders and Grossman, P.C. in 1999 specifically to pursue claims for medical providers. This firm, and its successors, grew dramatically under his leadership, and now represent thousands of medical providers litigating claims against insurance companies, and thousands of injury victims, and now employs over fifty attorneys and one hundred support staff.
Mr. Grossman had a vision of uniting the medical profession by affording them the opportunity to litigate nominal claims that were being written off by medical providers as uncollectible and had not previously been practical for most attorneys to litigate. By coordinating Discovery, utilizing the most up-to-date case management technology, recruiting top office administrators and trial attorneys, Mr. Grossman's firm was able to greatly improve efficiencies throughout the litigation process and ultimately the viability of collecting these claims. By filing over 100,000 individual lawsuits, Mr. Grossman's firms garnered the attention of the insurance industry and the medical profession in New York eventually leading to a series of mass settlements on behalf of his clients and recoveries in the hundreds of millions of dollars. In just 2006 and 2007, Mr. Grossman's firm personally litigated, negotiated and recovered another 100 Million Dollars for his medical provider clients. The unique experience Mr. Grossman garnered as an innovator and leader in the mass settlement of medical claims and mass torts made him a leader in his field in negotiating and obtaining large recoveries.
Mr. Grossman�s Law Firms currently represent thousands of personal injury clients and many of his firms' fifty attorneys are experienced trial attorneys who have successfully tried fifty or more cases to verdict.
Most recently, Mr. Grossman has represented hundreds of injured clients in lead paint litigations, asbestos litigations, mold litigations, and victims of defective drugs and products. Mr. Grossman received tremendous recognition by counsel on both sides of the Bar litigating Vioxx cases in New Jersey Superior Court where he served as a liaison to the media as a member of the Vioxx PSC�s Public Relations Committee, and as a liaison for the Committee to many financial institutions and governmental agencies, offering a common voice for the hundreds of attorneys handling such cases and the tens of thousands of victims they represent. These efforts and the hard work of many other relentless attorneys ultimately led Merck to agree to one of the largest Civil Settlements in American History for $4.95 Billion.
Mr. Grossman is currently actively litigating for other large groups of plaintiffs in the following matters:
- In Re: New York Bextra and Celebrex Product Liability Litigation in New York�s Supreme Court, New York County; -Case No. 273, In Re: Bextra and Celebrex Litigation, Superior Court of New Jersey, Atlantic County; -Oxycontin Litigation in New York�s Supreme Court, Richmond County; -MDL-1708, In Re Guidant Corp. Implantable Defibrillators Products Liability Litigation in Minnesota; -MDL-1699, In Re Bextra and Celebrex Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation in California; -MDL-1742, In Re Ortho Evra Products Liability Litigation in Ohio; -Fosamax Litigation in Superior Court of the State of New Jersey, Hunterdon County; -MDL-1789, In Re Fosamax Products Liability Litigation in New York; and -MDL-1804, In Re Stand 'N Seal, Products Liability Litigation where one of Mr. Grossman�s firms serves on the PSC.
Mr. Grossman has been retained by over four hundred victims of Avandia and is a proposed member of the Plaintiff's Steering Committee in the Federal MDL in Philadelphia, In Re Avandia Sales and Marketing Related Practices.
Mr. Grossman spends much of his time consulting thousands of physicians each year on ways to avoid becoming victim to the wrongful intimidating techniques employed by the Insurance Industry.
Also, since 2003, Mr. Grossman has become well known as a speaker and host of approximately twenty educational seminars designed to educate victims, the medical community and other attorneys on the effects of the unfair fraudulent practices of the Insurance Industry and the rights of their victims.
Mr. Grossman has been quoted and has appeared in numerous local and national forums and in the media as a legal commentator and advocate of victims rights against the corporate greed that plagues our nation.
Jennifer M. Gerdes graduated from State University at Albany in 1998. She worked as a paralegal for Marc D. Grossman, Esq. prior to attending Fordham University School of Law. While at Fordham Law she was a member of the Latin American Law Student Association and the Black Law Student Association.
Soon after graduating from Law School she worked for Sanders, Grossman, Fass & Muhlstock, P.C. Thereafter, she joined Sanders, Sanders, Block, Woycik, Viener & Grossman, P.C. Jennifer is admitted to practice law in the State of New York. She is fluent in Spanish and handles personal injury, social security disability and mass tort matters for the firm
Melissa C. Ingrassia graduated from St. John's University School of Law in 2002 where she was an Editor on the New York International Law Review. She worked as a law clerk with the firm for two years prior to her admission to the bar. Melissa is admitted to practice law in the State of New York, as well as Federal Court in the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York. She handles the firm's nursing home negligence cases.
Randi Kassan has been with Sanders, Sanders, Block, Woycik, Viener & Grossman since 2005. She specializes in Mass Torts which includes Vioxx, Fosamax, Bextra, Pacemaker/Defibrillator, Avandia, OxyContin and Ortho Evra. Before joining Sanders, Sanders, Block, Woycik, Viener & Grossman Randi was at Baker, Sanders, Barshay Grossman, Fass, Muhlstock & Neuwirth, P.C. for three years specializing in no-fault litigation. She graduated from Binghamton University with a B.A. in Psychology and then received her J.D. from Hofstra Law School in 2003. Ms. Kassan is admitted to practice law in the State of New York, as well as Federal Court in the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York. She is a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers Association, the Brooklyn Bar Association and the New York Bar Association.
