Tania M. Pagan

Tania Pagan has nearly thirty years' experience as an attorney in state and federal litigation, settlement mediation, appellate practice and wrongful death and infant compromise practice and procedure. She is best known for her advocacy and dedication on behalf of seriously injured plaintiffs in complex medical malpractice cases, particularly obstetrical malpractice on behalf of women and babies injured during traumatic or premature births. Her preparation, skill and experience in wide ranging medical topics involving malpractice for surgical errors, mismanagement of post-operative complications, failures in emergency medicine or to timely diagnose cancer, yields significant recoveries on behalf of her clients time and again. Tania Pagan's breadth of experience also includes representing seriously injured workers in labor law construction accidents, accident victims of general negligence and sexually assaulted plaintiffs.

She is skilled negotiator and is the firm's lead attorney for major case settlements particularly for totally disabled or mentally incapacitated plaintiffs, brain damaged at birth infants requiring life care planning and estates recovering for wrongful death and pain and suffering of their deceased loved ones. Mrs. Pagan is experienced in obtaining court approval in complex infant and death compromise proceedings including those needing trusts, involving New York's Medical Indemnity Fund and/or structured settlement annuities providing streams of income for long term needs.

Tania Pagan's knowledge and experience as civil litigator well compliments her advocacy as an appellate lawyer. She has prosecuted and argued numerous state and federal appeals, including having argued in New York's highest court, the Court of Appeals. Mrs. Pagan's sharp and successful appellate advocacy on behalf of her clients distinguishes her among civil litigators.

Mrs. Pagan graduated from the University at Albany, SUNY and received her B.A. degree in 1985. She then graduated and received her J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law in 1989 and was admitted to the New York State Bar, New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division Frist Department in 1990. She is admitted to the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and has been admitted pro hac vice to the United States District Court for the Districts of Puerto Rico and Hawaii in addition to multiple state courts of New Jersey. Her professional memberships include the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, Women's Bar Association of the State of New York and the Women Trial Lawyers Caucus in NYC.