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About Edward Steves
Edward M. Steves is an attorney at Jacoby & Meyers with extensive appellate experience. He earned a B.A. from Columbia College (1975) and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law (1978), along with a Certificate from Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law. He was admitted to the New York Bar, First Department, in 1979. Over his career he has appeared before the U.S. District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He has argued and won numerous appellate matters in New York. He is a member of the Columbia Law School Alumni Association.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Jacoby & Meyers, LLP
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A Philadelphia jury awarded Donna Kendall $6.3 million in compensatory damages and $28 million in punitive damages after finding that Wyeth's Prempro hormone-replacement drug caused her breast cancer and the double mastectomy that followed; the Pennsylvania Superior Court restored the full punitive award in 2012 after the trial judge had cut it to $1 million.
A Ulster County jury returned a $31 million verdict, the largest car-crash award in the county's history, for Kelly Burley, who developed cauda equina syndrome and permanent wheelchair dependence after a moving truck rear-ended her vehicle on the Mid-Hudson Bridge in 2019.
A Manhattan jury awarded $6.45 million to a 53-year-old avid salsa dancer who slipped on fish guts left on a Broadway sidewalk outside the Citarella gourmet grocery, dislocated her knee, tore three ligaments, and required at least 12 surgeries over 11 years.
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