Attorney Profiles

Donald S. Neumann, Jr. was admitted to the Bar in New York State in 1974 and began his career with Montfort, Healy, McGuire & Salley the same year. Initially, he focused exclusively in trial practice and gaining a broad range of trial experience in automobile, premises, municipal, medical malpractice and products liability. He was also responsible for any question of insurance coverage that arose during the course of litigation.

Beginning in 1980, his practice concentrated primarily in medical malpractice defense. His specialties included vascular and bypass surgery, general surgery, and infectious diseases. He managed a caseload of approximately eighty malpractice cases, the majority of which were resolved by discontinuance or dismissal, either prior to or during trial.

As an example, in the case of Meath v. Mishrick, 68 N.Y. 2d 922 (N.Y. 1986), the Court of Appeals, the highest appellate court in New York, affirmed the dismissal of the complaint and held, as a matter of first impression, that in the absence of an agency or other relevant relationship between a pathologist and the patient's treating physician, or of a continuing relationship between a pathologist and the patient, the continuous treatment of the patient by an attending physician does not extend the statute of limitations as against either the hospital pathologist, who misread the biopsy of the patient, or as against the hospital.

In 1988, Mr. Neumann replaced Edward M. Salley, Jr. as the managing partner of Montfort, Healy, McGuire & Salley. In addition to overseeing the internal operations of the firm, Mr. Neumann continued in the active practice of law.

Since 1988, he has headed the firm's insurance and appellate law departments. The more than 100 cases he has argued cover a broad cross section of law, including: insurance coverage, labor law, medical malpractice, premises liability, automobile and no-fault law, municipal and police liability, and intentional torts. Mr. Neumann is also the system administrator of the firm's computer network, which he designed and developed. Most recently, he oversaw the conversion of more than ten years of data from a Unix to a Windows format necessary for the implementation of stat-of-the-art case management software.