Andrew S. Kaufman, Esq.
Andrew is a founding partner who represents health care providers in virtually all medical specialty fields as well as many of the most prestigious hospitals in the New York metropolitan area. He also represents a number of well-known medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Over the past thirty years Andrew has tried more than one hundred cases to verdict, including numerous cases of multimillion-dollar exposure. He has lectured at the New York State Bar Association, the Greater New York Hospital Association, Yale University School of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Westchester County Medical Center and a number of major metropolitan hospitals and is a former Trial Advocacy Instructor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
Andrew has published on topics including medical malpractice, risk management, long term care liability, negotiating techniques and settlement strategies and drugs and medical devices liability litigation in The New York Law Journal, Medical Malpractice Law and Strategy, The Journal of the American Society of Healthcare Risk Management, The PLUS Journal, and The American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry.
Andrew is the past President of the New York State Medical Defense Bar, and was a keynote speaker at the American Bar Association Section on Law and Medicine annual convention. Andrew is the Chairperson at the NYSBA biannual seminar on Medical Malpractice Litigation and he has been named one of the top rated Medical Malpractice attorneys by Super Lawyers magazine. Andrew has been selected to the New York Metropolitan Super Lawyers list for the years 2006-2019. Each year, no more than 5% of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor.