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Marc Dittenhoeffer

Marc Dittenhoeffer, Partner, BLANK, GOOLNICK & DITTENHOEFER, NYSTLA Board and Executive Committee Member & Chair of the NYSTLA Standing Committee on Automobile Litigation and No Fault Insurance

Since 1986, Marc Dittenhoeffer has served as a Founding Partner of BLANK GOOLNICK & DITTENHOEFER, ESQS., a three-person practice specializing in Personal Injury, Product Liability, Medical Malpractice, General Liability, Civil Service Law and Real Estate transfers with emphasis on civil trial work, primarily on behalf of plaintiffs. From 1984-1986 Dittenhoeffer was a Partner at SIEGEL & DITTENHOEFER, ESQS., a small practice specializing in Of-Counsel Trial work to the profession, largely for plaintiffs. He was an Associate from 1982-1984 at SCHNEIDER, KLEINICK & WEITZ, ESQS, one of only four full-time trial counsel at this premier plaintiff’s firm. Responsible for the Trial and/or settlement of plaintiff’s personal injury, product liability and malpractice cases, in addition to running a caseload of some 75 files. And from 1976-1982, Dittenhoeffer worked at the NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY & MaBSTOA LAW DEPARTMENT, where he was hired as a Law Clerk prior to admission to the Bar and promoted to Attorney, Associate Attorney, Trial Attorney, Supreme Court Trial Attorney and Assistant General Counsel; served as Head of the Kings County Litigation Unit; worked at various times in the sections of the Law Department responsible for No-Fault Insurance, suits on behalf of the Authorities as plaintiffs, Admiralty litigation, Civil Service Disciplinary matters, general litigation and contract matters, and Trials in the New York City Civil Court, New York State Supreme Court and the Federal Court for the Eastern District of New York. He was admitted to Practice in the STATE of NEW YORK, Second Department, September 7, 1977; Admitted to the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, 1977; Admitted to practice before the SUPREME COURT of the UNITED STATES, January 17, 1983; and O.C.A. Unified Court System Qualified Fiduciary (Guardian, Guardian Ad-Litem., Court Evaluator, Attorney for A.I.P., and Referee), New York and Kings Counties , June 2003 to date. He recieved his B.A. from Long Island University in 1973 and his J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law in 1976.

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Posted by Guest Contributor at September 5, 2004 06:45 PM