Paul Napoli

U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers® have recently announced their “Best Law Firms” rankings and Napoli Shkolnik PLLC is proud to have been included in both national and regional listings. Napoli Shkolnik PLLC received national and regional (New York City) tier designation in the “Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs” category.…Read the article

Napoli Shkolnik PLLC has filed a class action lawsuit against five manufacturers of aqueous firefighting foams (“AFFF”) containing perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (“PFOS”) and perfluorooctanoic acid (“PFOA”) for the contamination of the groundwater relied upon Dutchess County and seeks to certify a class to represent all water providers in the State of New York that have been…Read the article

Napoli Shkolnik PLLC is proud to announce that fourteen of its attorneys have been included in the 2018 Super Lawyers® lists. Included in the 2018 New York Metro Super Lawyers® list are: Partners Marie E. Napoli, Hunter J. Shkolnik, Christopher R. LoPalo, Shayna E. Sacks and Of Counsel to the firm, Paul J. Napoli. Selected…Read the article

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Carmen Victoria St. George is allowing Marie Napoli’s defamation suit against Paul Napoli’s former law firm partner to proceed. The suit, which was filed against the ex-partner, his attorney and publicist in 2015,  is seeking $160 million in compensatory damages and $340 million in punitive damages. Ms. Napoli  alleges that the…Read the article

In addition to being New York’s leading 9/11 lawyers, the Napoli Shkolnik PLLC firm frequently works with clients who are suffering from the deadly medical condition known as mesothelioma. This diseases can radically impact a patient’s quality of life and can prevent them from working. This blog post will cover what this disease is, its…Read the article

Every child needs sun protection. The lighter someone’s natural skin color, the less melanin it has to absorb UV rays and protect itself. The darker a person’s natural skin color, the more melanin it has. But both dark- and light-skinned kids need protection from UV rays because any tanning or burning causes skin damage. The…Read the article

Seemingly frustrated with the apparent lack of progress in settlement negotiations, Cleveland U.S. District Judge Dan Polster ordered all parties to saddle up and prepare for trial in the ongoing Multi-District Litigation national opioid lawsuit in Ohio. The order is a significant departure from Judge Polster’s earlier stance. In January 2018, he told lawyers for…Read the article

Public Hearing Scheduled on Local Law to Declare the Opioid Epidemic a Public Nuisance Schuyler County will hold a public hearing on March 12 to review a proposed local law declaring the opioid epidemic and its effects on the County a public nuisance. According to Schuyler County Attorney Steven Getman, the draft local law is…Read the article

When Bloomberg journalists needed clarification on the legal aspects of opioid painkiller addiction, they turned to Paul J. Napoli and Marie Napoli of Napoli Shkolnik PLLC, and so can you. Attorneys like ours have a long history of making products safer for everyone through aggressive litigation. Like many of these other efforts, the anti-opioid litigation…Read the article

For the first time since the Spanish Flu outbreak in the 1920s, life expectancy in the United States has declined two years in a row, and observers say painkiller addiction is the reason why. Life expectancy had risen every year since 1993, which was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and is now at 78.6…Read the article