Author Biography: New York Objections

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New York Objections

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Helen E. Freedman has served as a trial judge since 1979, and in 1998 she received the Judicial Excellence Award of the State Trial Judges Conference of the American Bar Association. She has served on the Appellate Term, and now serves in the Commercial Division of the New York State Supreme Court. She is also the Mass Torts Judge in charge of all New York City asbestos personal injury and New York State silicone gel breast implant, latex glove, and diet drug cases. She is a founding member of the State Judges Mass Tort Litigation Committee.

Justice Freedman has lectured extensively on trial practice, ADR, mass torts, and medical malpractice at law schools, CLE and bar association programs, and judicial seminars. She has written articles on trial practice, medical malpractice, and mass torts. Justice Freedman was a Vice President of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and Chair of its Special Committee on Medical Malpractice. She has also served as the President of the New York State Association of Women Judges.

She is currently a fellow of the New York Bar Foundation and the American Bar Foundation. She is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the New York County Lawyers' Association, the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York, and the American Judicature Society.

Justice Freedman graduated from New York University School of Law and Smith College. She lives with her husband in New York City, and has two grown daughters.

Contributing Author Barbara Rosen Epstein received her J.D. from New York University School of Law. She was law secretary to Justice Helen E. Freedman, and has practiced as an appeals attorney with the Legal Aid Society of Nassau County. She is admitted to the bars of New York and Connecticut. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two sons.