Buttafuoco & Associates

PRACTICE AREAS: Dan Buttafuoco has handled over 100 juried and non-juried trials involving all aspects of personal injury, negligence, product liability and medical malpractice cases. Dan has won for his clients many millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements in these areas. Dan has the third highest recorded personal injury settlement in New York State history. Dan has the highest recorded settlement ever for a police officer.

PUBLIC AND SPEAKING ACTIVITIES: Dan hosts a weekly radio talk show entitled “Christian Legal Concepts” for WMCA station 570AM radio. The program features discussion of listeners’ call-in questions about their faith and its connection with the law specifically, personal injury law. As a speaker for numerous churches of all denominations (including Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal and others), Dan has shared his ideas on the Bible, religion and law with many congregations and groups.

CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES: New York City Relief: Board member for over 20 years – Mission which assists poor and homeless in the NYC metropolitan area. Historical Bible Society: Founder/President Dan--Established this public charity which funds programs for the care, preservation, display and education about ancient and historically significant Bibles, important religious Artworks and study of Christian scriptures. Founder of the YCL Scholarship.  Provides scholarships to young student leaders of the community.  Pave the Way Foundation: Board member--inter-faith organization which monitors relationships between the three main religious groups of the world and advocates for peaceful exchange instead of violence in the name of religion. Bethpage Assembly Church: Elder

BAR ADMISSIONS: New York- All Courts; United States District Court (Federal Courts): Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; United States Court of Military Appeals; United States Court of Appeals- Second Circuit; United States Supreme Court; United States Claims Court; Admitted pro hac vice in other states.

MEMBERSHIPS: New York State Bar Association; New York State Trial Lawyer’s Association; American Trial Lawyer’s Association; National Organization of Social Security Claimant’s Representatives; National Board of Trial Advocacy- Certified Civil Trial Lawyer since 1989 - Christian Trial Lawyers Associations -Christian Legal Society. PROFESSORSHIPS: Adjunct Professor of Trial Law – National Injury Trial Attorney’s Program Hofstra Law School; PERSONAL: Elder and Bible Studies Teacher at Bethpage Assembly in Bethpage, NY; Former School Board Member and President of South Shore Christian School a/k/a Long Island Christian Academy from 1987 until 2004. Dan is married with 3 children, one of whom is a practicing lawyer.

Education: Hofstra University, B.A., 1978; Hofstra Law School, J.D. 1981; Dan recently completed his Masters degree in Theology at Alliance Theological Seminary (2008).

FAVORITE QUOTE: “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly.” – David, King of Israel (Psalm 1:1).

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