Background
Anthony Bonina, John was born on August 26, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
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John Anthony Bonina
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Villanova University (Bachelor of Science, 1959). Brooklyn Law School (Bachelor of Laws, 1961).
Career
Gangemi v. Sclafani, 506 F. 2d 570 (2nd Circuit, 1974); In re: Cutter Laboratories, Incorporated. "Braunwald-Cutter" Aortic Heart Valve Products Liability Litigation, 465 F. Supp. 1295 (1979); Becker v. Schwartz, 46 New York 2d 401, 413 North.Y.S. 2d 895, 386 North.E. 2d 807; O"Toole v. Greenburg, 64 New York 2d 427, 488 North.Y.S. 2d 14, 477 North.E. 2d 445; Lutfy v. Gangemi, 35 New York 2d 179, 359 North.Y.S. 2d 27, 316 North.E. 2d 710; Richardson v. Luizzo, 45 New York 2d 789, 409 North.Y.S. 2d 9, 381 North.E. 182; Loschiavo v. Portuguese Authority of New York and New Jersey, 58 New York 2d 1040, 462 North.Y.S. 2d 940, 448 North.E. 2d 1351; Dontas v. The City of New York, 183 A.D.2d 868, 584 North.Y.S. 134; Muallen v. New York 82 A.D.2d 420, 441 North.Y.S.2d 834.Worked at Bonina & Bonina, Professional Corporation (Brooklyn, New York) specializing in Malpractice, Products Liability and Negligence Law. Trials and Appeals.
Admitted to the bar, 1962, New New York Referee, Appellate Division, Second Department on Incompetent Procedures, 1975-1991.
Plaintiffs National Lead Counsel, Defective Heart Valve Litigation, 1979-1985.
Medical Malpractice Panelist Kings County, 1978-1990. LAWPAC Trustee, 1993, (Fund Development Chair, 1993).
Founder, Committee for a Safe Place to Work. Lecturer: Comparative Negligence, Columbian Lawyers Association, 1979.
When Does The Injured Worker Have A Liability Claim, Columbian Lawyers Association, 1995.
Medical Decision Making In The Nineties - Where Does The Patient Fit In?, National Italian American Bar Association, 1995. Cross Examination of an expert witness in Products Liability cases, Practicing Law Institute, 1988. Member: Brooklyn Bar Association (Member: Committees on: Tort Law, 1977.
Cooperation Between Attorneys and Physicians, 1973).
New York State Trial Lawyers Association (First Vice President, 1994-1995. Chairman, Medical Malpractice Committee, 1978.
Lecturer, Video Trial Techniques and Medical Malpractice, 1978-1980. Use of Video Technique as part of Discovery, 1981.
Direct Examination of the Expert Witness in Medical Malpractice Case, 1982.
Summation Techniques, 1983. Preparing for Medical Malpractice Trial, 1984. "Bad Faith" in negotiation of a negligence claim, 1985.
Direct Examination of Expert Witness in Products Liability cases, 1986.
Voir Dire Demonstration as both Plaintiff and Defendant in personal injury cases, 1987. Cross Examination of the Expert Witness in Medical Malpractice cases, 1987.
Program Chairman and Lecturer: "How to try a case series," 1985. Sophisticated Trial Techniques on Jury Selection in complex litigation, 1986.
Company-Lecturer: with Professor Margaret Berger, Brooklyn Law School, Rules of Evidence and Cross Examination of the Expert Witness, 1985.
Program Chairman, Expert Witness in Litigation from Pre-trial through Trial, November 1990. Trial Practice Workshop, 1996). Bay Ridge Lawyers Association.
Kings County Defenders Association.
Columbian Lawyers Association. The Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
Catholic Lawyers Guild. The law firm of John Anthony Bonina & Associates, Professional Corporation was founded in 1962 by John Anthony Bonina and has now become Bonina & Bonina, Professional Corporation The firm has grown through decades of representing both plaintiffs and defendants in personal injury litigation, to the present time, concentrating its efforts in litigation, trials and appeals on behalf of seriously injured patients, workers, consumers and other victims of negligence, primarily in the New York City and Long Island area, as well as throughout the remainder of New York State.
Staff members speak the following languages: Spanish, Italian, Hebrew and Greek.
Achievements
Membership
Member: Brooklyn Bar Association (Member: Committees on: Tort Law, 1977. Cooperation Between Attorneys and Physicians, 1973). New York State Trial Lawyers Association (First Vice President, 1994-1995.
Chairman, Medical Malpractice Committee, 1978.
Lecturer, Video Trial Techniques and Medical Malpractice, 1978-1980. Use of Video Technique as part of Discovery, 1981.
Direct Examination of the Expert Witness in Medical Malpractice Case, 1982. Summation Techniques, 1983.
Preparing for Medical Malpractice Trial, 1984.
"Bad Faith" in negotiation of a negligence claim, 1985. Direct Examination of Expert Witness in Products Liability cases, 1986. Voir Dire Demonstration as both Plaintiff and Defendant in personal injury cases, 1987.
Cross Examination of the Expert Witness in Medical Malpractice cases, 1987.
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