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As a member of the Board of Advisors to the Neuroscience and Law Center at Fordham Law School, I am pleased to announce this CLE entitled “Breakthrough Brain Discoveries and the Law.” It will be held via zoom on February 5, 2025 from 11 am to 4:55 pm (EST) and 5 CLE credits are available....

Last week was a full and productive week for The Flomenhaft Law Firm, PLLC. On Wednesday, September 4, Michael Flomenhaft obtained a Plaintiff’s liability verdict resulting in a favorable settlement in Supreme Court, Queens County. This was the second phase of the liability challenge involving a porter’s staircase fall. Establishing liability initially required prevailing on...

As a member of Fordham Law School, Board of Advisors, Neuroscience and Law Center, Michael Flomenhaft is pleased to announce a CLE entitled “What’s Up with TikTok, Twitter (X), Meta, Etc.? The Law and Neuroscience of Social Media.” This cutting edge CLE will be held on Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from 11:00 am to 4:55...

In her 2023 decision in Malayev v. Boulevard Leasing Limited Partnership, et. al., Supreme Court, Queens County, Justice Sally E. Unger described the important and decisive increase in valuation that Michael Flomenhaft brings to a case.

The Flomenhaft Law Firm, PLLC is pleased to announce that Michael Flomenhaft and Benedene Cannata were selected again to Super Lawyers in 2024.

On February 6, 2024, after three weeks of trial in Supreme Court, New York County before Justice James G. Clynes, Michael Flomenhaft obtained a $1.5 million dollar settlement of a medical malpractice case. This was a retrial of a case that in 2019 had resulted in a defense verdict, which was set aside after successful...

It was an honor to co-sponsor Fordham Law School’s recent Artificial Intelligence symposium: “The New AI: The Legal and Ethical Implications of ChatGPT and Other Emerging Technologies.” It compellingly previewed the coming revolution in legal practice: How “The New AI” Presents Opportunities and Threats The revolutionary advances of Artificial Intelligence explored at this symposium are...

The Flomenhaft Law Firm, PLLC is pleased to co-sponsor a cutting-edge CLE on Artificial Intelligence held at Fordham Law School on Friday, November 3, 2023. The Fordham Law Review and the Neuroscience Law Center on which Michael Flomenhaft is on the Board of Advisors will present “The New AI: The Legal and Ethical Implications of...

The Flomenhaft Law Firm, PLLC is pleased to share that Michael Flomenhaft has been invited on an invitation only basis to participate in the upcoming 2023 BrainMind summit—an unparalleled forum centered around the brain and mind. This highly anticipated convening will take place on October 21-22, 2023, at UCSF in San Francisco, California, with an...

On June 1, 2023, The Flomenhaft Law Firm, PLLC won a hallmark victory before the Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, First Judicial Department in Almonte v. Con Edison Company of New York, Inc., Index No. 24968, 14E. The appellate panel reversed the order of the trial court requiring production of...

On May 1, 2023, Michael Flomenhaft, Principal of The Flomenhaft Law Firm, PLLC won an historic motion in a medical malpractice case, Martinez v. North Shore Long Island Jewish Franklin Hospital, Supreme Court, Queens County Index No. 702801/2017. Defense counsel’s Frye motion sought exclusion of the admissibility of quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG) to objectively corroborate chronic...

The Flomenhaft Law Firm, PLLC is pleased to announce that Michael Flomenhaft was selected to Super Lawyers in 2023.

March is Brain Injury Awareness month. It highlights the previously unrecognized vast spectrum of long term consequences of brain trauma including concussions and mild traumatic injuries. But even this spotlight has overlooked brain damage from chronic pain. In 2011, Michael Flomenhaft delivered a paper to the 2011 Second Circuit Judicial Conference, The Legal Brain-scape: Neuroscience...

On January 26, 2023, Michael Flomenhaft will be the featured lecturer at the Clinical Skills Training Workshop for students pursuing psychiatric research in the Research Internship Program at the Global Psychiatric Epidemiology Group (GPEG) within the New York State Psychiatric Institute at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. His talk is entitled “The Impoverishment of...

On June 21, 2022, Michael Flomenhaft was featured on King Melvin’s call-in radio show. Below is an excerpt of his perspectives regarding the significance of concussion as a brain injury and his representation of victims of these injuries as a result of negligently caused incidents.

The Flomenhaft Law Firm, PLLC is pleased to announce that Benedene Cannata was selected again to Super Lawyers in 2022.

On April 8, 2022, Michael Flomenhaft will participate in the Injured Workers’ Bar Association (IWBA) Spring CLE conference. His panel is entitled “Recognizing and Representing Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI/Post Concussion Syndrome) as a Potentially Permanently Incapacitating Injury.” A significant focus of his discussion will be the difficulty of many injured workers have, particularly in...

Professor Deborah Denno the founding director of the Neuroscience and Law Center at Fordham Law School provides a helpful introduction to the March 1, 20202 “Dementia and the Law” free CLE zoom conference at which Michael Flomenhaft will be speaking. To review the introduction and register, please see the link below: “Dementia and the Law”

Michael Flomenhaft will be speaking at “Dementia and the Law,” a symposium sponsored by Fordham Law School. This free symposium will be held online via Zoom, on March 1, 2022. Six ethics CLE credits are available. The symposium will address challenges dementia poses in many facets of law. He will discuss a spectrum of dementia...

Excerpt from Michael Flomenhaft’s presentation, given at Zwanger-Pesiri Radiology and Long Island Spine Care Affiliates (LISCA) Symposium, November 16, 2021. He addresses the importance of evaluating white matter injuries. “Challenges in Proving Long Term Effect of Concussion/ Mild Traumatic Brain Injury” The biggest source of difficulty and misdirection for attorneys handling concussion cases is failure...

On November 16, 2021, Michael Flomenhaft will lecture at a symposium entitled Traumatic Brain Injury: A multidisciplinary symposium, Identification and Management of Concussion as Traumatic Brain Injury in Clinical Practice, sponsored by Zwanger-Pesiri Radiology and LISCA. Mr. Flomenhaft will address “Challenges To Proving Long Term Effects of Concussion/Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.” This topic is important...

On July 11, 2021, Michael Flomenhaft presented “Legal Aspects of Neurotrauma,” at the 2021 Annual Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics Conference. Since neurotrauma typically refers to Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and the vast majority of TBI is mild TBI or concussion, this presentation addresses the interplay between the medical assessment of mild TBI/concussion and...

The invitation to Mr. Flomenhaft to present at this conference was based on his recognized expertise in the field of neuroscience and its applications to civil cases such as Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)/Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD). See August 11, 2021 release featured in Business Wire below: Business Wire August...

On March 1, 2022, Michael Flomenhaft will speak at a symposium at Fordham Law School entitled “Dementia and the Law,” sponsored by Fordham Neuroscience and Law Center. He will discuss Dementia in traumatic brain injury trials and litigation. To register for this event, please see the link below: Dementia and the Law

On July 9, 2021, Michael Flomenhaft will discuss “Brain Injury from a Legal Point of View: Linking Neuroscience, Concussion, and Chronic Pain,” at the upcoming Annual Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics Conference. On July 11, 2021, Mr. Flomenhaft will address “Legal Aspects of Neurotrauma,” featured on the Acquire Spine and Brain Injuries panel. His...

The Flomenhaft Law Firm, PLLC is pleased to announce that Benedene Cannata was selected again to Super Lawyers in 2021.

On September 24, 2020 Michael Flomenhaft shared his perspectives on neuroscience and its relation to Qigong. His interview entitled “Qigong: Increasing Brain Body Connectivity Through Enhanced Neuroplasticity” addressed its relationship to neuroscience including its efficacy and importance for increasing brain body neural connectivity through enhanced neuroplasticity. In turn, neuroscience supports its benefits associated with Qigong.

The Flomenhaft Law Firm, PLLC is proud to announce that Benedene Cannata, Senior Counsel, has been selected as a New York Metro Super Lawyer and that her contributions to the field have been recognized.

On February 25, 2020, The Flomenhaft Law Firm, PLLC is sponsoring a CLE with Fordham Law School entitled “Cutting Edge Developments in Neuroscience and Law.” Our firm is committed to the contributions that neuroscience can make to the advancement of law. The symposium is dedicated to the memory of Bruce McEwen, Ph.D., and Professor at...

An article entitled “Maximizing Monetary Recoveries for Traumatic Brain Injury” is featured in Fortune, Entrepreneur, and Bloomberg Businessweek magazines. The article addresses The Flomenhaft Law Firm’s focus on neuroscience in achieving success for its clients.

Michael Flomenhaft is a peer-reviewer for the accuracy and appropriateness of articles submitted for publication for Trial magazine. Trial is the American Association for Justice’s award-winning magazine for attorneys, law professors, judges and others in the legal community. Trial brings readers news of the latest legal trends and developments, informative articles about civil law practice,...

On October 12,-13, 2019 Michael Flomenhaft participated in the invitation only BrainMind Summit hosted by Stanford University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. On October 14, 2019, he also attended a closed door break out session on the Science of Consciousness. In both sessions, from all over the world, distinguished speakers and invitees devoted to...

Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics has invited Michael Flomenhaft to be a speaker at their March 20-22, 2020 17th Annual World Congress at the LA Convention Center. Mr. Flomenhaft will discuss the effects of concussion on sensory systems and advanced legal approaches and responses to these issues.

On September 7, 2019, Michael Flomenhaft spoke at the 4th annual RSDSA/CRPS Long Island awareness event. Michael Flomenhaft discussed a typically unrecognized consequence of CRPS/RSD pain: its potential for adverse effects on the brain. His talk encompassed CRPS/RSD and their relationship to asymmetric and accelerated brain atrophy, brain rewiring, brain hypersensitization and cellular change. He...

On August 27, 2019, Michael Flomenhaft discussed how chronic pain affects the brain on Reverend Terry Lee’s Real Life Times News radio show. Although pain is felt in the body, it actually registers in the brain. Yet little attention is given to the brain effects of chronic pain. You can listen to an excerpt of...

One of the great challenges of coping with concussion is that many of its harms are hidden.

On January 1, 2019, Michael Flomenhaft discussed traumatic brain injury (“TBI”) on Reverend Terry Lee’s Real Life Times News radio show. The program caters to issues facing Brooklyn’s Caribbean community. His remarks included discussion of car accidents as a leading cause of TBl, explaining that in such accidents, whiplash rather than direct head impact is...

On October 17, 2018, Michael Flomenhaft participated in “The Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention of Concussion,” CLE sponsored by Fordham Law School. He spoke on a panel entitled The Hidden Harm of Traumatic Brain Injuries. Mr. Flomenhaft discussed the often contrasting neurological versus neuroscience views on concussion. In particular, he showed that while neurology and conventional...

On October 17, 2018, Michael Flomenhaft will speak on The Hidden Harm of Traumatic Brain Injuries, a panel for “The Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention of Concussion” CLE, sponsored by Fordham Law School.  Because most brain injury is undetectable by conventional medical examination and imaging, a vast spectrum of harm eludes diagnosis despite its devastating life consequences. Michael...

On April 10, 2018, Michael Flomenhaft lectured on “Concussion: Neuroscience versus Medical Perspectives.”  He participated in a Law and Neuroscience Speakers Series sponsored by Fordham Law School.  This seminar for students included contributions by leading neuroscientists, psychologists, medical researchers, and lawyers to enable students to participate in new research and ideas. See link for 2018 Law...