John P. Freedenberg

John P. Freedenberg concentrates his practice in the areas of products liability, catastrophic personal injury and intellectual property litigation as a partner of the firm.  Jack serves as national coordinating counsel for two major manufacturers, and has handled the defense of numerous products liability actions around the United States. These have included catastrophic personal injury cases and major fire damage cases, and have involved appliances, household products, controls, power generating equipment, electrical systems and aircraft engines. Jack has had the unique opportunity to depose plaintiffs' experts in a wide range of specialties, and has developed proven techniques for disqualifying "junk science" purveyors under applicable rules of evidence.  Mr. Freedenberg possesses an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell.  He was named to Business First's Who's Who in Law and to New York Super Lawyers.

Direct Dial
716.566.5487
Fax
716.566.5401
E-mail
jfreedenberg@goldbergsegalla.com
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Practice Areas

• Catastrophic Injury Litigation
• Product Liability Litigation
• Intellectual Property Litigation

• State University of New York at Buffalo, B.S., magna cum laude, 1981
• State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Law, J.D., 1984
• Robert J. Connelly Trial Technique Award

• New York - All Courts
• United States District Court, Western District of New York
• United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
• United States District Court, Northern District of New York
• United States District Court, Southern District of New York

• Defense Research Institute
• Products Liability Committee
• Immediate Past National Chair
• Steering Committee 
• New York State Bar Association
• Erie County Bar Association
• Special Service Award, 1998
• Bar Revue

• Co-Author, "Frye 'Em: Jury Psychology Can Undermine Plaintiffs' Expert Witnesses," For the Defense, Defense Research Institute, December, 2007
• Co-Author, "Expert Discovery, Depositions and Motions to Exclude Experts," Chapter 6, Preparing For and Trying the Civil Lawsuit, second edition, New York State Bar Association, 2004
• Presenter, "Daubert v. Merrell Dow: A Decade of Developments in the Admissibility of Expert Testimony," Defense Research Institute, 2004
• Presenter, The Rhode Island Nightclub Fire: Mass Tort and Federal Jurisdiction Implications, Defense Research Institute, 2004
• Presenter, "Effective Strategies for Excluding Plaintiffs' Experts," Defense Research Institute, 2003
• Co-Author, "Expert Depositions and Motions to Exclude Experts," For the Defense, Defense Research Institute, 2003
• Chair and Co-Author, "Defending the Catastrophic Burn Injury Case," Defense Research Institute, 2002
• Chair and Co-Author, "Products Liability Post-Kuhmo Tire: Strategy and Practice," New York State Bar Association Seminar, 1999
• Chair and Author, "Products Liability in New York: Strategy and Practice," New York State Bar Association Seminar, 1997
• Co-Author, "Defense Counsel's Approach to Cross-Examination in the Post-Daubert Era," For The Defense, Defense Research Institute, 1996
• Co-Author, "Finding the Facts in Products Liability Litigation," For The Defense, Defense Research Institute, 1996

• Named to Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition
• Named to New York Super Lawyers  
• Named to Business First's Who's Who in Law