Practice Areas:

• Construction Law

• General Liability

• Motor Vehicle Liability

• Premises Liability

• Products Liability

• Toxic and Environmental

• Transportation

  Representative Experience:

• Mr. Kamlet has over 30 years of trial experience.

• He started his career in the Bronx District Attorney’s Office where, for 7 years, he handled white-collar investigations and trials, as well as appeals. 

• In civil practice, Mr. Kamlet has had extensive experience in toxic tort litigation including asbestos, lead poisoning, and mold claims.

• He has spent a major portion of his career defending all aspects of premises liability, construction accidents, products liability, and transportation claims.

• He has also developed expertise in large property damage subrogation claims.

•  Mr. Kamlet’s devotion to detail during all phases of litigation, from inception through trial, has allowed him to better counsel his clients and obtain favorable outcomes on their behalf, both from an indemnity and expense perspective, by negotiating settlements from a position of strength.

• Ever mindful of the costs of protracted litigation, Mr. Kamlet targets appropriate cases for early resolution and has had great success obtaining the cooperation of the plaintiff's bar in altering historically counter-productive attitudes.

• Alternative dispute resolution is also an important adjunct to Mr. Kamlet's approach.

• Mr. Kamlet has tried a multitude of cases to verdict, and brings a reputation in the legal community as a formidable trial adversary to the negotiating table as well.

          Education:

• Brooklyn College of the City of New York, B.A. (1973)

• Cleveland State University Law School, J.D. (1976)

  Executive Editor of The Law Review

       Admissions:

• New York, 1977

• U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, 1978

• U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1987

       Memberships:

• The New York State Bar Association

• Defense Research Institute (DRI), where he is a member of the Trial Tactics Committee and The Committee on Lawyers' Professionalism and Ethics

• Adjunct Professor of Law, Hofstra University School of Law- Intensive Trial Advocacy Program

        Personal:

• Born in Brooklyn, New York, 1951