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The Law Office of Kim H. Townsend
244 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Phone: 516 816 0167
Fax: 917 591 5171
June 1998-Present The Law Office of Kim H. Townsend
Jury Trials: Personal Injury and Commercial: Plaintiff and Defendant
The firm’s primary business involves
trying cases for other law firms who have been unable
to settle their matters and must proceed to jury trial.
Plaintiff, Insurance Defense, Commercial.
Practice Areas:
Labor Law, Premises Liability, Auto, Professional Liability,
Products, Commercial Matters.
Plaintiff Firms Represented on Request.
Defense Firms Represented on request.
Institutional defense representation has included, among others,
AIG, AIG Construction Claims, Chubb, Liberty, Royal, Reliance,
Reliance National, Frontier, Lancer, Tower, Kemper,
Nationwide, Meadowbrook, Century, Chartis, NYU, QBE and others.
Also, Subrogation matters.
Nov 1996-June 1998 Bell & Townsend
Attorneys of Record for Transamerica Insurance Group
(TIG). Principle Trial Attorney in 12 person, Mineola based,
in-house personal injury law firm handling litigation in
Nassau, Suffolk and Queens. Primary responsibilities
included handling and trying all major cases within firm.
Feb 1988-Nov 1996 Jones Hirsch Connors and Bull
Partner. Senior trial attorney handling major trials within
the firm, including catastrophic injury and other high
exposure matters. Representative clients included AIG,
AIG Construction Claims, Crawford & Co., Hyatt Hotels,
CAN, Cigna, Continental, NYU, CMC and many others.
April 1986-Feb 1988 Suffolk County Attorney’s Office
Assistant County Attorney. Federal Tort Unit. Extensive
Federal Court jury trials involving sec.1983 and
related claims against Suffolk County Police Department.
August 1979-April 1986 New York County District Attorney
Assistant District Attorney
Trial Counsel, Grand Jury, Felonies, Homicide.
EDUCATION Hofstra University School of Law
Juris Doctor, 1979
Hofstra University
Bachelor of Arts, 1976
Suffield Academy
Suffield Connecticut, 1971
BAR ADMISSIONS New York State
1st Department February, 1980
U.S.D.C.
Southern District of NY, 1986
U.S.D.C.
Eastern District of NY, 1986