Nicholas Papain, managing partner and trial attorney of the firm Sullivan, Papain, Block, McGrath & Cannavo, P.C., will be sworn in as the 41st President of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association on June 26, 2008. He will succeed Jeff S. Korek, of the firm Gersowitz, Libo & Korek.

New York City, NY (PRWEB) June 26, 2008 -- Nicholas Papain, managing partner and trial attorney of the firm Sullivan, Papain, Block, McGrath & Cannavo, P.C., will be sworn in as the 41st President of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association on June 26, 2008. He will succeed Jeff S. Korek, of the firm Gersowitz, Libo & Korek.


"I am both humbled and honored to take on the challenge and responsibility of the NYSTLA Presidency," said Mr. Papain. "I look forward to working with my colleagues to ensure the rights of everyday New Yorkers are vigilantly guarded."

Mr. Papain, one of the state's most prominent negligence and product liability trial lawyers, has been steadfast in his representation of those who have been injured through the wrongdoing of others. His skills as a trial lawyer were best illustrated when he played a leading and critical role in a fee proceeding before a national arbitration panel regarding Sullivan Papain's representation of the State of New York in its action against the major tobacco companies which resulted in a record $25 billion recovery for the State.

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