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Annamarie Bondi-Stoddard is the firm’s managing partner. She has over 20 years experience representing plaintiffs in various types of medical malpractice cases including women’s health issues, birth injuries, surgical, neurosurgical, cardiac, cancer-related cases and a host of other medical specialty cases where negligence is involved. She has not only written extensively on medical malpractice in publications such as The New York Law Journal but in addition has lectured on topics pertaining to medical malpractice law for lay audiences as well as fellow attorneys. She has been voted by her peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America® and New York Super Lawyers. She was named one of Long Island’s Top 50 Business Women in 2005.
The most important part of medical malpractice litigation, according to Ms. Bondi-Stoddard, is to help financially secure the future of significantly injured individuals so as to give them a better qualify of life and relieve the financial burden placed upon their overwhelmed family members. To that end, she has successfully negotiated millions of dollars in settlements on behalf of a multitude of clients. She is also an advocate for patient awareness and devotes much of her time to community service on various health related issues. She sits on the Executive Board of Directors as Secretary for Long Island Women’s Agenda. In addition, she is an active member of LIWA’s Health Care Committee which organizes health related seminars to educate the women of Long Island on a variety of health and medical issues which are of interest to the community. She is also an active member of the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women’s Luncheon Committee as well as its yearly Long Island Heart Walk.
Ms. Bondi-Stoddard is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York as well as the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. In addition, she is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court and the United States Court of Federal Claims.
She is also a member of New York State Trial Lawyers Association, Nassau-Suffolk Trial Lawyers Association, Nassau County Bar Association (member Medical Legal Committee), American Association for Justice, New York State Bar Association, Nassau County Women’s Bar Association, New York County Bar Association and United Cerebral Palsy Auxillary of Nassau County.
She obtained her law degree from Boston University School of Law and her undergraduate degree from Seton Hall University where she graduated summa cum laude, with departmental honors.
Some of her published articles include the following:
- “Smart Patient, Healthy Patient”, Long Island Women’s Agenda: Issues in Focus. Women’s Health Issue-Winter 2008
- “Medical Malpractice Damages in Infant Death Cases”, New York Law Journal September 21, 2007
- Lawyers Bookshelf, book review for the New York Law Journal of Paul Levine’s “Solomon v. Lord” November 22, 2005
- “Perspective: ‘Frye’ Hearing in Medical Malpractice Actions–‘Frye’ is Misapplied,” New York Law Journal, Special Section – March 15, 2004
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