New York Lawyers

Civil Litigation

120 Broadway, Suite 1301, New York, NY 10271

Civil Litigation: Transportation (Bus/Rail) ; Professional Liability (Nursing Home); Trial Advocacy; General Civil Litigation Diane is a dedicated, creative and tenacious attorney, who assists her clients in all phases of litigation, from Alternative Dispute Resolution (“ADR”) through trial. From the moment Diane assumes the defense of a case, her focus is on how to efficiently and successfully resolve the case, while simultaneously assessing trial strategy. Diane has been asked by her clients to step in and try complex cases in challenging venues. Her diverse experience allows her to offer clients a unique perspective for settlement options, defenses and trial strategy. Diane has over 25 years of experience and her practice focuses on transportation litigation, including the defense of school bus companies, paratransit transportation companies, commercial transportation companies and railroads (Federal Employers' Liability Act); professional liability litigation, including nursing homes, and assisted living/senior living facilities; defense of non-profit entities; general liability; and catastrophic personal injuries, including wrongful death and traumatic brain injuries, in the state and federal courts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York. Her unique experience also includes the successful defense of nursing homes and assisted/senior living facilities for over 15 years and providing such entities advice regarding risk management. She has also successfully defended transportation companies against allegations of physical and mental abuse of passengers and students.

Personal Injury Law

2470 Walden Ave, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, USA

A cum laude graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, Donald Chiari has over 35 years of litigation experience. The focus of his practice is dedicated to representing those who have sustained catastrophic and life-changing injuries. Mr. Chiari currently handles automobile accidents, construction accidents, nursing home negligence and abuse, complex premises liability, product liability, and medical malpractice cases. He has tried numerous cases to verdict throughout Western New York, resulting in multi-million-dollar awards and some of the highest verdicts and recoveries in our community. He has been recognized for obtaining the two largest personal injury verdicts in Niagara County history and has obtained one of the largest nursing home verdicts in the State of New York. Mr. Chiari is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL). Membership in the organization is by invitation only and is limited to one percent of the lawyers in each state. He also holds the elevated rank of Advocate with the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), an organization that recognizes the skill, integrity, and experience in the special art of trial advocacy. Mr. Chiari has received an AV® Peer Review Rating Martindale-Hubbell, the preeminent level of professional excellence. The AV® rating is the highest possible ranking in legal ability and ethics. He was further selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America from 2012 to the present in the field of personal injury litigation and was selected as Lawyer of the Year in 2020 and 2023 in medical malpractice law – plaintiffs. Other organizations have selected him for membership due to his skill in litigation, such as Super Lawyers – Personal Injury, Litigation Counsel of America, and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Mr. Chiari is a member of the following professional associations: American Association for Justice, New York State Trial Lawyers’ Association, Western New York Trial Lawyers’ Association, and Bar Association of Erie County. He was also recruited to serve on the National Advisory Board for the University of Buffalo Law School’s Advocacy Institute, which was designed to develop litigation skills of law students to successfully advocate on behalf of future clients.

Intellectual Property Law

405 Lexington Avenue, 48th Floor, New York, NY 10174

Douglas A. Miro partners with clients to provide practical legal advice to grow, maximize and protect their businesses. He guides clients in all stages of their intellectual property needs from product development to manufacturing, marketing and enforcement. Leading fashion, retail and manufacturing companies regularly call on Doug for strategic advice on the establishment, maintenance and defense of their intellectual property programs. Armed with deep technical and legal expertise, Doug litigates patent, trademark, unfair competition and trade secret cases in district and appellate courts throughout the country in a wide variety of fields, including fashion and retail, cosmetics, consumer products, mechanical, electrical, healthcare, ceramics, steel making, refractories, medical devices and Internet-related technologies. Doug also helps clients create intellectual property assets and strategic IP portfolios that deliver lasting business value. He counsels businesses including hospitals and other health care providers on a broad range of intellectual property issues, including establishing intellectual property programs, licensing and technology transfer matters. Doug was named one of Super Lawyers’ Top 100 Metro lawyers in 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2021 in the intellectual property area and has been listed in the main Super Lawyers’ list for the past 14 years.

Securities Law

551 5th Ave 21st floor, New York, NY 10176, USA

Douglas Hirsch is a founding member and co-head of Sadis & Goldberg’s litigation department and has over 30 years of trial and appellate experience. Doug has successfully represented clients in complex securities and business litigation, including class action and derivative cases. Doug advises, litigates and arbitrates primarily for clients in the financial services and real estate industries, and therefore, has extensive experience in the areas of hedge fund, venture capital fund and private equity fund litigation, investment and securities fraud, business and partnership disputes, business divorce and dissolution, corporate governance, cross border insolvency litigation, fraudulent transfer and claw back claims, and real estate litigation. Doug started his career at Lord Day & Lord, Barrett Smith and then worked at Schulte Roth & Zabel before becoming one of the founding members of Sadis & Goldberg in 1996. Doug received his J.D. in 1990 from Hofstra University School of law, where he was a member of the law review. He received his B.A. degree in 1987 from Union College. He is a member of the New York bar and has been admitted to the First, Second and D.C. Circuits and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

Intellectual Property Law

745 5th Avenue, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10151