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Biography
With over thirty three (33) years as a practicing attorney Barton L. Slavin, Esq. leads a staff and network of experienced attorneys that meets both corporate and personal legal needs.
Recent awards and settlements include $2,300,000 for a construction worker who fell into an excavation, $600,000 for a pedestrian struck by a car and $200,000 for a Nursing Home patient who was injured while under the care of the nursing home.
Barton Slavin obtained a $1,800,000 jury verdict in the first of the stray voltage cases brought against Consolidated Edison when there were a flood of cases in approximately 1998. Read a reproduction of the front page of the NY Law Journal article here.
Mr. Slavin is proud that he is a Brooklyn Technical High School graduate. He is a University of Buffalo cum laude graduate and obtained his law degree from Brooklyn Law School. He was admitted to the Bar in 1983, is licensed in all New York State Courts, Federal District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
He is or has been a member of the New York State Bar Association, New York State Trial Lawyers Association, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York County Lawyers Association, and the Defense Research Institute. He has won awards for his Pro-Bono activities from The Brooklyn Bar Association – Volunteer Lawyers Project, Inc. He has served as a Panelist for the NYSBA Trial Academy, which consists of classes that train attorney on how to be a trial lawyer.