Barry Jacobs  

     Contact:

One Battery Park Plaza, 4^th Floor

 New York, New York 10004

(212) 422-1200 ext. 249

(212) 968-7573 (fax) 

  Practice Areas:

• Construction Law

• General Liability

• Motor Vehicle Liability

• Premises Liability

• Products Liability

• Professional Liability Defense

• Transportation

  Representative Experience:

• Mr. Jacobs has extensive trial experience in the New York state courts, as well as in the federal courts.

• In addition to his documented trial experience, he has extensive appellate experience, having successfully argued many matters in the First and Second Departments of the Appellate Division of the State of New York, Court of Appeals of the State of New York, as well as the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

• His entire career has been devoted to the defense of general liability and professional liability claims, including premises liability, automotive liability, liquor law liability, legal malpractice claims, claims against nursing homes and rehabilitative facilities, and the defense of false arrest/ false imprisonment claims against large mercantile establishments. In these areas, his clients include May Department Stores Co. (now Federated Retail Holdings), Chubb Group of Insurance, and Custard Claims & Risk Management, a third party administrator handling claims for Westport Insurance Co.

• Mr. Jacobs is an instructor at the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.

          Education:

• Rutgers University, B.A. (1977)

• Brooklyn Law School, J.D. (1980)

        Admissions:

• New York, 1981

• U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, 1981

• U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1984

         Memberships:

• The New York State Bar Association

• Defense Research Institute (DRI)

         Personal:

• Born in Passaic, New Jersey, 1955