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<br> <blockquote class="body"> <span class="body">Mr. Golanski has over fifteen years experience as a business and appellate litigator (in both the civil and criminal areas), with an overwhelmingly successful record characterized both by securing affirmances and winning reversals on behalf of his clients. Mr. Golanski’s work has addressed business, commercial and products liability cases, as well as a variety of constitutional law issues, in State and Federal Courts nationwide, including the United States Supreme Court. He is currently prosecuting and defending business contract and government contract disputes in various state and federal courts, including the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and continues to prosecute civil and commercial appeals. Mr. Golanski's experience in major mass tort and products liability cases also makes him uniquely qualified to defend your business against serious injury, toxic tort, or products liability claims.</span> <p class="body">Mr. Golanski, a Columbia University School of Law James Kent Scholar, and a Phi Beta Kappa scholar who holds advanced degrees in law and analytic philosophy, is a member of the Bar of the States of:</p> <ul> <li class="body">New York</li> <li class="body">New Jersey</li> <li class="body">Connecticut</li> </ul> <p class="body">and, at the Federal level, a member of the Bar of:</p> <ul> <li class="body"> the United States Supreme Court</li> <li class="body">the United States Court of Appeals for the: <ul> <li class="body">Federal Circuit</li> <li class="body"> First Circuit</li> <li class="body">Second Circuit</li> <li class="body">Fifth Circuit</li> <li class="body">Sixth Circuit</li> <li class="body">Eighth Circuit</li> <li class="body">Tenth Circuit</li> </ul> </li> <li class="body">United States Court of Federal Claims</li> <li class="body">United States District Courts</li> </ul> <p class="body">Mr. Golanski is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and of the United States Court of Federal Claims Bar Association, and is currently listed in Who's Who in America, as well as Madison's Who's Who. Recently, he has been retained to prosecute a multi-million dollar bid protest in the United States Court of Federal Claims in a government contract dispute involving a procurement by the Army’s Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command. He has also been retained as appellate co-counsel in the nationally famous Liggett Group, Inc. v. Engle tobacco litigation, seeking reinstatement of the $220 billion verdict and judgment entered on behalf of the class of nearly one million Floridians diagnosed with lung cancers and other diseases. </p> <p class="body">Mr. Golanski is also currently litigating a civil rights and Federal Tort Claims Act appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Court on behalf of a former U.S. Gold Medal Olympic champion, and has served as New York counsel in the In re Johns-Manville Corporation bankruptcy proceedings on behalf of asbestos personal injury and wrongful death plaintiffs currently bringing actions against Manville’s former insurers. Mr. Golanski’s recent litigation successes include a reversal in the high-profile semiconductor litigation styled “Ruffing v. Union Carbide Corporation” involving parental occupational exposures to extremely toxic chemicals in IBM’s computer chip-manufacturing facilities—of the trial court’s ruling precluding the infant plaintiff’s fraud claims against defendant IBM.</p> <p><span class="body">Further information about Mr. Golanski’s experience and background may be obtained by searching for "Alani Golanski" under the Lawyer Locator or Firm Locator tabs at <a href="http://www.martindale.com" target="_blank">www.martindale.com</a>.</span><br> </p> </blockquote>
