Edward Steves is member of Jacoby & Meyers LLP. Practice areas Personal Injury, Defective and dangerous products, Family and Social Security. Rivera v. City of New York, 2003 NY App. Div. LEXIS 7377 (2nd Dept. 2003) In action for personal injury, plaintiffs appealed the lower court conversion of defendants’ in limine motion into one for summary judgment and then to dismiss the complaint against the City. (Edward M. Steves, for plaintiffs-appellants)
DePalo v. L.M.T. Realty Co., 295 AD2d 470; 744 NYS2d 676 (2nd Dept. 2002). Defendant appealed an order that denied its motion to vacate a judgment in favor of the plaintiff and against it upon its failure to appear or answer. Appellate Court held that motion to vacate should have been granted. (Edward M. Steves, for plaintiff-respondents)
Luciano v. Apple Maint. & Servs., 289 AD2d 90; 734 NYS2d 153 (1st Dept. 2002). Defendant appealed an order that denied defendant’s summary judgment motion as untimely. Appellate court held that in the interest of judicial economy, specifically, the disposition of a threshold, potentially determinative issue prior to trial, and the absence of a demonstration of prejudice by plaintiffs, the motions court should have entertained the summary judgment motion on its merits.
Education:
- Columbia University School of Law – Juris Doctor (1978)
- Certificate from Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law (1978)
- Columbia College – Bachelor of Arts (1975)
Admissions & Membership:
- State of New York, First Department – 1979
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York – 1980
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York – 1980
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit – 1986
- U.S. Supreme Court – 1993
- Columbia Law School Alumni Association
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