Attorney Profiles

Frank J. Cafaro 
Garden City, New York,
Partner
phone 516-874-7967
866-720-6713 (Toll Free)
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Frank J. Cafaro was admitted to practice in New York State in 1963. He has represented the firm's core clients in professional liability defense litigation for more than 40 years. During this period of time, Mr. Cafaro has tried over 100 cases to verdict. He has represented corporate defendants, insurance carriers, product manufacturers, hospitals, municipalities, public utilities, and many individual physicians, nurses, and technicians employed in the medical community.

Mr. Cafaro has lectured widely for the Suffolk County Bar Association, Nassau County Bar Association and New York State Bar Association. Topics included "Medical Malpractice Litigation (for defendant)," "Jury Selection Techniques," "Winning Openings and Summations," "Jury Selection and Opening Statements for the Defense." He has also lectured at the Toro Law Center on "How to Conduct a Deposition."

He was awarded the Presidential Award of Merit by the Suffolk County Bar Association Craco Task Force IV Court Management Committee.

Areas of Practice:
Trial Practice
Bar Admissions:
New York, 1963
U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1966
U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 1966
Education:
Fordham University School of Law, New York, New York, 1962
LL.B.


Lehigh University, 1956
B.A.


Classes/Seminars Taught:
Faculty, "How to Conduct a Civil Trial", Suffolk Academy of Law Lecture Series, Trial Advocacy, 2008


Professional Associations and Memberships:
American Arbitration Association
Member of Panel


Nassau-Suffolk Trial Lawyers Association, 1974 - 1983
Director/Treasurer/Vice Chairman/Chairman


Grievance Committee for the Tenth Judicial District of the Appellate Division, Second Department, 1990 - 1991


New York State Bar Association
Executive Committee


Suffolk County Bar Association, 1982 - 1984
Judiciary Committee


Supreme Court Committee


Bench Bar Committee, 2007


Federation of Insurance and Corporate Counsel


Fellow of American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys


American College of Trial Lawyers