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THE FIRM
PARTNERS
Edwin L. Smith
Thomas Michael Laquercia
Reed M. Podell
ASSOCIATE
PROFILES:
Robert W. Napoles
Tracy L. Groves
Lana S. Kaganovsky
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The Firm
Partners:
Thomas Michael Laquercia
Thomas Michael Laquercia is a recognized trial and
appellate attorney whose experience includes rail, bus, automobile,
products and general liability, OL&T, manufacturers and contractors
liability, Labor Law cases, errors and omissions, ERISA, life insurance
and accident and health. He has tried approximately 55 jury trials
to verdict.
Like Mr. Smith, Mr. Laquercia has represented excess and
reinsurance carriers, and thus has developed a broad perspective of
claims handling practice. Noteworthy, is that Mr. Laquercia has
lectured on bad faith claims practice. In addition, he is the first
trial attorney in New York
to create and offer as evidence in chief an animated video reconstruction
of a rail accident platform fall case.
Mr. Laquercia is a graduate of St. John's University
School of Law, and a member of the New York and Federal Bars, New York
County Lawyers' Association, the Defense Association of New York, the
Federal Bar Council, The Columbian Lawyers Association, a charter member
of the National Italian American Bar Association, Association of
Arbitrators, Small Claims Division, Civil Court of the City of New York,
The American Judges Association and he sits as a Small Claims Arbitrator
in the Civil Court of the City of New York. Mr. Laquercia has been
cited for his pro bono
work in the courts by the Board of Directors of the New York County Bar
Association and has served as a lecturer for New York Continuing Legal
Education (CLE) courses.
In community service, he is President of the Board of
Directors of the Strong Place Day Care Center, Inc., a facility for
disadvantaged children, which is funded by the Agency for Child
Development of the City of New
York.
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