Kenneth F. McCallion heads an accomplished team of civil litigation and estates/trusts attorneys at McCallion & Associates. He has more than 40 years of experience in a wide range of legal practice areas, including: complex civil litigation; environmental/pollution law; toxic torts/personal injuries; real estate and contract disputes; wills and trust litigation; employment discrimination; deprivation of civil rights/ human rights; consumer protection; product liability; and wrongful death. Mr. McCallion is a graduate of Yale University and Fordham Law School and is an adjunct professor at Cardozo Law School.

Mr. McCallion has an outstanding record of victories and has handled some of the country’s largest, multi-million dollar cases, including the Exxon Valdez oil spill case in Alaska, the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant litigation, the Gulf War case, and the Bhopal Gas disaster litigation. As lead counsel in the federal class action litigation against various French banks, Mr. McCallion successfully represented Holocaust survivors and the families of victims, resulting in the establishment of a substantial settlement fund and claims procedure.

Throughout his career, Mr. McCallion has litigated numerous significant civil RICO and other class actions that have collectively resulted in recoveries well in excess of $1 billion. For example, in County of Suffolk v. Long Island Lighting Company, in which he served as co-lead trial counsel, the Second Circuit upheld a $400 million class settlement, quoting the opinion of the trial judge, Honorable Jack B. Weinstein, that “counsel [has] done a superb job [and] tried this case as well as I have ever seen any case tried.”  907 F.2d 1295, 1327 (2d Cir. 1990).

Mr. McCallion also represented Yulia Tymoshenko, the former Prime Minister of Ukraine, in her civil RICO case against Paul Manafort and others in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York that served as part of the basis for the Department of Justice and Special Counsel Mueller’s indictments of Mr. Manafort and Mr. Gates for various federal criminal offenses.

Additionally, he represented thousands of World War II victims of forced and slave labor in their successful settlement claims against the German government and German industries. Mr. McCallion won a major jury verdict against a pesticide company on behalf of a family exposed to Dursban TC, a pesticide manufactured by Dow Chemical Corp. Mr. McCallion represented families of the victims of the American Airlines crash Flight 587 and veterans of the first Gulf War (in 1991) who were injured after exposure to chemicals sold to the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq by various European chemical companies. Mr. McCallion also represented the families of victims of the 9/11 World Trade Center terrorist attack, and he also represents Yulia Tymoshenko, the former Prime Minister of Ukraine, in a case involving wrongful imprisonment and human rights violations.

Mr. Holman has been an attorney for more than 45 years. Tom currently focuses his practice on corporate transactions, breach of contract, business disputes, business and commercial litigation, employment fraud, securities and stock fraud, consumer fraud defense, declaratory judgments, emergency commercial litigation, federal and NY whistleblower protection, noncompete litigation, preliminary and temporary restraining orders, resolving disputes outside of court (arbitration & mediation), and wrongful termination of franchisees or distributors.

Originally from Mayo Ireland, at McCallion & Associates, Darragh’s focus has been on all aspects of civil litigation, including defamation, employment discrimination, hostile work environment, retaliation, legal malpractice, breach of contract, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, tortious interference with business relations, derivative action, civil RICO, misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of privacy (under ECPA and SCA), Visual Artists Rights Act, Adult Survivors Act, and Gender Motivated Violence Act claims.

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