Dennis P. Glascott

Dennis P. Glascott is a partner in the firm's Litigation Department.  He is an active trial attorney with more than 75 recorded verdicts over his 20 years of trial practice in state and federal courts across New York State.  He focuses his practice on complex and catastrophic personal injury litigation.  He has successfully defended self-insured and insured clients in a variety of areas, including products liability, premises and construction site personal injury litigation (New York State Labor Law), municipal liability and police misconduct (42 USC Section 1983) civil rights litigation.

Mr. Glascott is a member of the Defense Research Institute (DRI), the New York State Bar Association’s Tort, Insurance and Compensation Law Section, Erie County Bar Association and Western Trial Lawyer’s Association and Defense Trial Lawyers Association of Western New York. He presently serves as the Chair for the Products Liability Committee for the New York State Bar Association’s Tort, Insurance and Compensation Law Section. He is a member of that Section’s Executive Committee and in 2006, was recognized as the Section Chairperson of the Year for his work as the Chair of the Membership Committee. In 2007, he served as the Overall Planning Chair for a well-received program entitled, “How to Litigate a Products Liability Case: The Fundamentals” which was co-sponsored by the Torts, Insurance and Compensation Law and Trial Lawyers Sections of the New York State Bar Association.

Mr. Glascott is a frequent writer and lecturer on various topics, including trial techniques, construction site personal injury, premises liability and ethics.

Mr. Glascott is a former member of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the U.S. Navy, having obtained the rank of Lieutenant Commander before entering private practice at Bower & Gardner, New York City.  After returning to his hometown of Buffalo, New York, Mr. Glascott has become an active member of the Western New York community, including community service on the Village of Angola Zoning Board of Appeals and Town of Evans Youth Court.

Mr. Glascott is admitted to practice before all state courts in New York and the United States District Courts for the Western, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He is a member of the Erie County and New York State Bar Associations.

Direct Dial
716.566.5450
Fax
716.566.5401
E-mail
dglascott@goldbergsegalla.com
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Practice Areas

• Insurance Defense Litigation
• Toxic Tort Litigation
• Class Action/Complex Litigation
• Product Liability Litigation 
• Municipal Law Practice

• State University of New York at Buffalo, B.A., 1982
• University of Toledo College of Law, J.D., 1985
• Naval Justice School, 1986

Admitted to Practice

• New York - All Courts
• United States District Court, Western District of New York
• United States District Court, Southern District of New York
• United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
• United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit 

Professional Affiliations

• Defense Research Institute
• American Bar Association
• Tort, Trial and Insurance Practice Section
• Associate Member, Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc.
•  New York State Bar Association
• Chair, Product Liability Committee
• Torts, Insurance and Compensation Law Section
• Trial Lawyers Section
• Western New York Trial Lawyers Association
• Defense Trial Lawyers Association of Western New York 
• Erie County Bar Association

• Judge Advocates General's Corp., U.S. Naval Reserve, Lieutenant Commander (Ret.) 1986-1998
• Village Justice, Village of Angola, NY 
• Board Member, Village of Angola Zoning Board of Appeals
• Board Member, Executive committee, Town of Evans Youth Court

Honors

• Recipient, New York State Bar Association Torts Insurance and Compensation Law Section Chair of the Year Award, 2006

• Co-Author, "Set-Offs Available Under General Obligations Law §15-108," New York State Bar Association Post Trial Practice and Procedures Book, 2008
• Co-Author, "Will the Change to General Obligations Law §15-108 Promote More Settlements?", New York State Bar Association Torts, Insurance and Compensation Law Journal, Spring, 2008
• Overall Planning Chair, How to Litigate a Products Liability Case - the Fundamentals, co-sponsored by Torts Insurance and Compensation Law Section and Trial Lawyers Sections of New York State Bar Association, March 2007
• Presenter, "Ethics and Product Liability Litigation," New York State Bar Association Seminar, March 2007
• Co-Author, New York Court of Appeals Rejects the Product Line Exception to Successor Corporate Liability, New York State Bar Association, Torts, Insurance& Compensation Law Section Journal, Winter, 2007
• Presenter, "Section 240(1) of the New York Labor Law," Erie Institute of Law Premises Liability Program, March, 2006
• Local Program Chair, “Basic of Premises Liability,” co-sponsored by Premises and Labor Law Committee of the Torts Insurance and Compensation Law Section and Committee on Continuing Legal Education of the New York State Bar Association
• Local Program Chair, “Update and Overview on Premises Liability,” New York State Bar Association, 2005
• Presenter, “Exterior Premises Liability,” New York State Bar Association, 2005