About the authors

• Author: Edward L. Birnbaum/Carl T. Grasso/Ariel E. Belen
• Pages: 3-4

F-3 About the Authors

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

EDWARD L. BIRNBAUM is of counsel to Worby Groner Edelman LLP, and the former head of

the Litigation Department at Herzfeld & Rubin, P.C. in New York. He is a prolific author of litigation

articles and lectures frequently on litigation strategy and techniques for

Bar Associations and Continuing Legal Education Institutions. His prac-

tice areas in litigation include personal injury, product liability, profes-

sional liability, commercial, strategy and trials.

Mr. Birnbaum was Chairman of the New York State Bar Association

Committee on the Supreme Court, Chairman of the New York State Bar

Association Action Unit No. 6; and a Member of the House of Delegates

to The New York State Bar Association. He has served as an arbitrator

for the American Arbitration Association, the United States District Court

for the Eastern District of New York, and the Small Claims Division of

the Civil Court of the City of New York. He has been an adjunct faculty

member of New York University School of Continuing Education, teach-

ing a course on the CPLR. He is a Fellow of The Roscoe Pound Institute,

and a Fellow of the New York State Bar Foundation.

Mr. Birnbaum is the subject of biography in fifteen different national and international Who’s

Who publications. He has received the highest rating from Martindale Hubbell. He was selected by a

blue ribbon panel of lawyers as a New York Super Lawyer from 2006 through 2014. He was selected

by his peers for inclusion in the 2010 through 2014 editions of Best Lawyers in America. He was

listed as one of the New York area’s Best Lawyers by New York Magazine each December from

2009 through 2012. In honor of his accomplishments and integrity, he was nominated and invited to

Fellowship in the Litigation Counsel of America, a trial lawyer honorary society whose membership

is limited to less than one half of one percent of American lawyers. He was named one of the city’s

top litigators in AVENUE magazine in 2010 and 2011.

CARL T. GRASSO is a member of the firm of Herzfeld & Rubin,

P.C. in New York City, specializing in litigation and trial work in the

areas of personal injury, product liability and commercial litigation. For

more than three decades, he has been intimately involved in trials all

over the United States, as well as in New York. He is an arbitrator in the

Small Claims Division of the Civil Court of the City of New York. He

holds Martindale Hubbell’s highest rating. He is a cum laude graduate of

New York Law School.

Mr. Grasso also served in the United States Army, while in Vietnam in

the Corps of Engineers, and later in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps.

He has written for the Military Law Review and the Army Lawyer. He

retired from the U.S. Army Reserve as a full colonel in 1996. His awards

include the Bronze Star and the Legion of Merit. He was named one of

the city’s top litigators in AVENUE magazine and was named a New York Super Lawyer in 2012.