Current Employment Position(s)

Judge, since March 1, 1993
Appointed 1967 by President Johnson

Lawyer Overview

Bar Admissions

New York, 1949
U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 1951
U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit, 1966
U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 1950
U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1950
U.S. District Court Western District of New York, 1950
U.S. District Court Northern District of New York, 1950
U.S. Supreme Court, 1955

Professional Associations and Memberships

American Bar Association (Member)
American Law Institute (Member)
American Judicature Society (Member)
New York State Bar Association (Member)
Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member)
Bar Association of Nassau County, New York (Member)
Judicial Conference of the United States, Committee on Court, 1969 - 1975 (Administration, Subcommittee on Federal Jurisdiction, Member)
Judicial Conference of the United States, 1964 - 1975 (Member, Advisory Committee on Rules of Evidence)
Special Advisory Group to the Chief Justice on Problems Relating to, 1971 (Federal Civil Litigation, Member)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Member)
International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (Member)

Honors and Awards

• Federal Bar Council Gold Medal, 1986
• New York Law School Law Review Charles W. Froessel Award, 1983
• Great Neck Lawyers Community Service Award, 1982
• LL.D., Brooklyn Law School (Honoris Causa), 1981
• University of Connecticut Law Review Award, 1981
• Alumnus of the Year Award, Brooklyn College Alumni Association, 1986
• Human Relations Award, American Jewish Committee, Long Island Division, 1968 - Present
• Columbia Law School Gold Medal, 1991
• LL.D., Albany Law School (Honoris Causa), 1990
• LL.D., Yeshiva University (Honoris Causa), 1991
• Nassau County Bar Association, Distinguished Service Medallion, 1995
• LL.D., Long Island University (Honoris Causa), 1995
• LL.D., Hofstra University (Honoris Causa), 1993
• LL.D., Yale University (Honoris Causa), 1994

Classes and Seminars

• Professor of Law, Columbia University, 1956 - 1967
• Adjunct Professor, Columbia University School of Law, 1967 - 1998
• Adjunct Professor, Brooklyn Law School, (Various Other Law Schools), 1987 - 1995
• Lecturer, Columbia University, 1948 - 1949

Past Employment Positions

City of New York Advisory Narcotics Council, Member, 1963 - 1965
Eastern District of New York, Chief Judge, 1980 - 1988
Nassau County, County Attorney, 1963 - 1965
Practice and Procedure to the New York State Temporary Commission on the Courts, Reporter and Consultant, 1955 - 1958
New York Joint Legislative Committee on Motor Vehicle Problems, Special Counsel, 1952 - 1954
William Rosenfeld, 1950 - 1952
United States Navy, World War II, Lieutenant, 1942 - 1946
Eastern District of New York, United States District Judge, 1967 - Present
Hon. Stanley Fuld, New York State Court of Appeals, Law Clerk, 1949 - 1950
Columbia University Law School, Faculty, 1952 - 1967

Education

Columbia Law School, New York, New York, 1948
LL.B., Bachelor of Law
Honors: Kent Scholar
Law Review: Columbia University Law Review, 1947
Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York, 1943
B.A., Bachelor of Arts
Honors: magna cum laude

Published Works

• Individual Justice in Mass Tort Litigation:The Effect of Class Actions, Consolidations, and Other Multiparty Devices, 1995
• Mass Torts:Cases and Materials (with Kenneth Feinberg), 1992
• Chapter VIII-Rulemaking by the Courts: The Judicial Administration Division Handbook, A.B.A. 6th ed., 1981
• Reform of the Court Rulemaking Procedures, The Institute of Comparative Law in Japan, Japanese ed., 1981
• Reform of the Federal Rulemaking Process, Ohio State Univ. Press, 1977
• Basic Problems of State and Federal Evidence (by Edward R. Morgan), 5th ed. Weinstein Rev., 1976
• Weinstein's Evidence (with Prof. Margaret Berger), 7 Volumes, 1975-1979, With Annual Supplements, One Volume, 1987, With Annual Supplements
• Cases and Materials on Evidence (with Morgan and Maguire) 1957, (with Maguire, Chadbourn & Mansfield, 1964, 1970, 1973) (with Mansfeld, Berger & Abrams, 1981, 1988)
• Rules and Statute Supplement (with Mansfield , Abrams & Berger, 1981, 1982, 1987)
• Elements of Civil Procedure (with Rosenberg, 1962) (with Rosenberg & Smith, 1970) 1982 Supplement 3d ed. (with Rosenberg, Smith & Korn)
• New York Civil Procedure (with Korn & Miller) 7 Volumes, 1976
• Manual of New York Civil Procedure (with Korn & Miller), 1967
• Essays on the New York Constitution, 1966
• A New York Constitution Meeting Today's Needs and Tomorrow's Challenges, March, 1967
• Various New York Practice Annual Publications (Editor), 1960

Address

U. S. District Court
Eastern District of New York
225 Cadman Plaza East
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Phones

(718) 613-2520

Faxes

(718) 613-2527

Websites

http://www.nyed.uscourts.gov