Hunter Jay Shkolnik
Napoli Shkolnik PLLC
Hunter J. Shkolnik concentrates his area of practice to the trial of significant personal injury cases primarily in the area of drug, automobile, heavy truck and aviation related product liability actions.
He leads the discovery and trial teams of various mass tort pharmaceutical and medical device litigations for the firm. He is also active in managing national litigation and plaintiff litigation groups including the American Association of Justice’s Actos Litigation Group.
He is currently serving as a chairman, leader or court appointed representative on Plaintiff Steering Committees in various drug and other mass torts. Additionally Mr. Shkolnik has also held officer positions in the New York State Trial Lawyers, Nassau County Bar Association and Committee Chair positions in ATLA Health Care Finance Litigation Group, Orthopedic Implant Litigation Group, AAJ Breast Cancer Litigation Group, Co-Chair AAJ Heart Device Litigation Group and the Chair of the Medtronic ICD and CRTD Litigation Sub Group.
Mr. Shkolnik has also lectured and organized seminars on issues involving Guidant, Medtronic and St. Jude pacemakers, ICD and Lead Wire recall science and litigation; Cardiac Device product liability litigation, Class Actions topics such as Ethics of Mass Tort Settlements, Lone Pine, State Federal Coordination and Preemption and on multiple occasions, on science related to various pharmaceuticals.
- Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
- J.D.
- Partner
- Napoli Shkolnik PLLC
- Current
- Sikkelee: A Victory for Plaintiffs and its Implication for Aviation Product Liability Claims
- AAJ Aviation Law Newsletter
- Danger in the Ring
- Vanity Fair
- Divided They Fall: Concepcion's Effect on Consumer and Employee Claims
- NYSTLA
- Fantasy Sports, Volkswagen, Porsche and Pharmaceutical Litgation
- HarrisMartin Conference
- Uber and the Sharing Economy: Law, Ethics and Policy, Pennsylvania
- Temple University School of Business
- Hot Topics and Trends in Litigation
- American Association for Justice
- The Impact of Daimler and BMS Plavix, Mass Tort And Class Action Litigation, California
- HarrisMartin
- Flint Water Crisis: Get in the Know about Lead Poisoning and How It's Litigated
- HarrisMartin
- Fellow
- Litigation Counsel of America
- Aviation Trial Lawyers – Top 10
- The National Trial Lawyers
- New York Super Lawyers
- Super Lawyers
- 2006-2017
- American Association of Justice
- Co-Chair
- Current
- Activities: The Actos Bladder Cancer Litigation Group
- New York State Trial Lawyers
- Board of Directors
- Current
- Nassau County Bar Association
- Past Vice-Chairman
- Current
- American Association of Justice
- Past Vice-Chairman
- Current
- Activities: Healthcare Finance Litigation Group
- American Association of Justice
- Past Vice-Chairman
- Current
- Activities: Orthopedic Implant Litigation Group
- New Jersey
- New York
- Free Consultation
- Contingent Fees
- Products Liability
- Drugs & Medical Devices, Motor Vehicle Defects, Toxic Torts
- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
- Environmental Law
- Medical Malpractice
- Birth Injury, Medical Misdiagnosis, Pharmacy Errors, Surgical Errors
- Opioid Crisis
- Pharmaceutical Litigation
- Aviation Accidents
- English: Spoken, Written