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Martin Block

Martin Block is a senior partner of the firm and is one of the few trial attorneys in the State of New York that has been certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy as a Civil Trial Specialist, which requires recommendations from at least three Judges and attorneys against whom he has tried cases. Mr. Block has been with the Sanders firm since 1985. Mr. Block has handled numerous cases that resulted in recoveries in excess of $1 million dollars including a case for an infant who suffered lead poisoning which resulted in a jury verdict of $2,000,000.00 which was affirmed by the Appellate Division of the State of New York. He obtained a jury verdict of $1,660,000 for a young motorcyclist injured in a motorcycle accident. He recovered an award of $3,000,000.00 for a young boy blinded by a defective toy. In 2008, 2009 and again 2010 through 2018, Mr. Block was listed in New York Super Lawyers Metro Edition. He was elected Chairman of the Trial Lawyers Section of the Nassau and Suffolk County Bar Associations for the years 2002-2003. He is a member of the Nassau County Bar Association. Mr. Block received recognition from the Association of Trial Lawyers of America for his efforts as a member of Trial Lawyers Care, a collective of experienced trial lawyers who provided free representation to the families of victims of the World Trade Center disaster on September 11, 2001. Mr. Block represented a young man whose mother perished on that date. Mr. Block is featured in Who’s Who is American Law 4th and 10th Editions; Who’s Who in the East, 21st Edition; Who’s Who in America, 2000, Who’s Who in the World, 8th Edition, and Who’s Who in Society, 1986. He is admitted to practice in all of the New York State Courts and has argued in the State’s highest Appellate Court, the Court of Appeals as well as the Appellate Division’s First and Second Department. He is also admitted in the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. In the course of his career, he has handled a myriad of the firm’s civil litigation trials, but now focuses on cases involving construction accidents, product liability, and infant lead poisoning.

Phyllis L. Sanders

Phyllis L. Sanders graduated Brooklyn Law School in 1984 and was admitted to practice law in New York State in 1985. She is a member of the Nassau County Bar Association, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and the American Trial Lawyers Association. She has been admitted to practice in Federal Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York. Mrs. Sanders is a member of the American Arbitration Association. For fifteen years prior to becoming an attorney, she taught remedial reading in the New York City public school system. Mrs. Sanders has a Masters Degree from City University of New York with a specialization in remedial reading. Among her charitable activities, she served on the Board of Directors of the Rehabilitation Institute and was a member of the Long Island Cabinet for the State of Israel Bonds for four years. She also created a scholarship at the Brooklyn Law School. Mrs. Sanders was the Chair-person for the Long Island State of Israel Bonds for over two years. She is a member of the Bi-County Political Action Committee and is involved in the United Jewish Appeal/ Federation Long Island Lawyers Division, as well as the Professional Women’s Division. Mrs. Sanders, along with her late husband Stanley, created a scholarship endowment at the Jewish Theological Seminary. She has been involved with the Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association for many years and currently serves on the CMTA Board of Directors.

E. David Woycik

E. David Woycik, Jr., is a senior trial partner of the law firm of Sanders, Aronova, Grossman, Woycik, Viener & Kalant, PLLC located in Garden City, NY, and concentrates on matters related to personal injury, construction, highway design, and toxic torts. Mr. Woycik attended the United States Naval Academy and received both his B.A. in 1977 and Law Degree in 1980 from Hofstra University. While at Hofstra, Mr. Woycik was a member of the Varsity Lacrosse Team and Crown & Lance Fraternity. He is past President of the Hofstra Alumni Organization and Veterans’ Organization. He received the George M. Estabrook Distinguished Service Award in 1991 and the Hofstra Award for Alumni Achievement in 1992. In 1998, he was chosen as Hofstra’s Alumnus of the year. He also served as President of the Athletic Association from 2010 to 2015. He has lectured at Hofstra Law School in the Trial Litigation Program for the past thirty (30) years. Hofstra Law School’s nationally renowned Trial Techniques Program was named the E. David Woycik, Jr. Intensive Trial Techniques Program for his commitment to Hofstra University and his skills as a Trial Attorney. He is recognized for his tenacity and commitment to excellence in representing his clients. In 1999, Mr. Woycik was recognized as Hofstra University’s Veteran of the year. In 2005, Mr. Woycik was named the ‘Distinguished Law School Graduate’ for his outstanding achievements in the law field. In 2009, he was awarded the Athletic Department’s “Distinguished Service Award” for his outstanding contributions to athletics and academics. He is an active member in many community organizations and was a Board of Director on the Big Brother/ Big Sister of Long Island. He is currently on the board of Vet Dogs of America and Canine Companion for Independence. Mr. Woycik served his country for thirty years in the U.S. Army and retired as a Colonel in the Judge Advocate General Corps. (JAG). He served in Desert Storm in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, as well as seven (7) overseas tours in Panama. He is the recipient of the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal, and Achievement Medal.

Douglas Sanders

Douglas H. Sanders graduated from Duke University with honors in 1996. He attended George Washington University Law School where he graduated from in June of 2000. While in law school, Mr. Sanders interned at the Department of Justice and worked on the Oklahoma Bombing Case. He received distinguished marks for his performance there. Thereafter, Mr. Sanders joined his family firm, Sanders, Sanders, Block, Woycik, Viener & Grossman, P.C. He handled a large body of personal injury cases. Additionally, he supervised the pleadings and motions departments and attended court conferences and conducted depositions. In 2001, he joined Sanders & Grossman, P.C. and engaged in the practice of no fault medical billing collections. Mr. Sanders became that firm’s operations managing partner in charge of human resources, technology, program development and legal process. He continued that role in Sanders, Grossman, Fass & Muhlstock, P.C. that later merged with Baker, Barshay, Neuwirth, LLP to become Baker, Sanders, Barshay, Grossman, Fass, Muhlstock & Neuwirth, LLC - now known as Sanders Barshay Grossman, L.L.C. Mr. Sanders also is a member of Sanders Viener Grossman, LLP. That firm specializes in mass torts litigation. His role in that firm is to handle heavy motion work and appellate practice. Mr. Sanders works in the Puerto Rico location with a focus on overseeing the mass torts division for Sanders Phillips Grossman, LLC. He spoke at the 2016 Puerto Rico Investor Summit among an esteemed roster of leading legal minds, entrepreneurs, holders of political office, and world business leaders. Mr. Sanders’ peers recognize him as an experienced operations manager and lawyer that can ensure honesty, integrity and excellent processing of claims.

Marc Grossman

Marc D. Grossman graduated from The University of Michigan in 1989. After completing Brooklyn Law School and Baruch Business School’s J.D./M.B.A. program while interning at the Law Department of the United Nations, Mr. Grossman became an Associate and later a Partner in the law firm of Mergel, Tubman & Grossman in New York City. Mr. Grossman is also a Founding Partner of Sanders and Grossman P.C., and Baker Sanders Barshay Grossman Fass Muhlstock & Neuwirth, LLC, and a Senior Partner at Sanders, Sanders, Block, Woycik, Viener & Grossman, P.C. and Sanders Viener Grossman LLP. Since beginning his law career in 1993, Mr. Grossman has focused primarily on representing large groups of plaintiffs against common defendants. After six years of practicing plaintiff’s personal injury in State and Federal Courts in New York and New Jersey, Mr. Grossman founded the law firm of Sanders and Grossman, P.C. in 1999 specifically to pursue claims for medical providers. This firm, and its successors, grew dramatically under his leadership, and now represents thousands of medical providers litigating claims against insurance companies, and thousands of injury victims, and now employs over forty attorneys and one hundred and fifty support staff. Mr. Grossman had a vision of uniting the medical profession by affording them the opportunity to litigate nominal claims that were being written off by medical providers as uncollectible and had not previously been practical for most attorneys to litigate. By coordinating Discovery, utilizing the most up-to-date case management technology, and recruiting top office administrators and trial attorneys, Mr. Grossman’s firm was able to improve efficiencies throughout the litigation process and ultimately the viability of collecting these claims. By filing over 100,000 individual lawsuits, Mr. Grossman’s firms garnered the attention of the insurance industry and the medical profession in New York eventually leading to a series of mass settlements on behalf of his clients and recoveries in the hundreds of millions of dollars. In just 2006 and 2007, Mr. Grossman’s firm personally litigated, negotiated and recovered over 100 million dollars for his medical provider clients. The unique experience Mr. Grossman garnered as an innovator and leader in the mass settlement of medical claims and mass torts made him a leader in his field in negotiating and obtaining large recoveries. Most recently, Mr. Grossman has represented hundreds of injured clients in lead paint litigations, asbestos litigations, mold litigations, and thousands of victims of defective drugs and products. Mr. Grossman received recognition litigating Vioxx cases in New Jersey Superior Court where he served as a liaison to the media as a member of the Vioxx PSC’s Public Relations Committee, and as a liaison for the Committee to many financial institutions and governmental agencies, offering a common voice for the hundreds of attorneys handling such cases and the tens of thousands of victims they represent. These efforts and the hard work of many other relentless attorneys ultimately led Merck to agree to one of the largest Civil Settlements in American History for $4.85 Billion. In December 2010, Marc Grossman was nominated and invited to join both The Board of Directors of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and the Executive Committee of ATLA. Mr. Grossman is also a member of the Mass Tort Trial Lawyers Association, Leaders Forum of the American Association of Justice and Top 10 National Latino Trial Lawyers Association. Mr. Grossman has actively litigated for other large groups of plaintiffs in the following matters: In Re: Avandia Marketing, Sales Practices And Products Liability Litigation- In Re: New York Bextra and Celebrex Product Liability Litigation in New York’s Supreme Court, New York County; -Case No. 273, In Re: Bextra and Celebrex Litigation, Superior Court of New Jersey, Atlantic County; -Oxycontin Litigation in New York’s Supreme Court, Richmond County; -MDL-1708, In Re Guidant Corp. Implantable Defibrillators Products Liability Litigation in Minnesota; -MDL- 1699, In Re Bextra and Celebrex Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation in California; -MDL-1742, In Re Ortho Evra Products Liability Litigation in Ohio; -MDL-1789, In Re Fosamax Products Liability Litigation in New York; and -MDL-1804, In Re Stand ‘N Seal, Products Liability Litigation where one of Mr. Grossman’s firms serves on the PSC. Marc’s Firm is also a court-appointed member of the Plaintiff’s steering committee in the following mass tort litigations: In Re Avandia, In Re Chantix, In Re Zicam, In Re Zimmer Knee, In Re Fosamax, and the New Jersey State Court Coordination of Levaquin. Marc’s Firm is co-lead in the NY Chantix Coordination and the New Jersey Reglan Coordination, as well as, Risperdal in California, all Transvaginal Mesh PSC, and Propecia coordination. After an $8 million verdict in Boles v. Merck for a victim of Fosamax, along with co-counsel Paul J. Sizemore, Marc led the Trial Team in Rosenberg v. Merck which was the first bellwether New Jersey Trial in Atlantic County Superior Court. After an $8 million verdict in Boles v. Merck for a victim of Fosamax, along with co-counsel Paul J. Sizemore, Marc led the Trial Team in Rosenberg v. Merck which was the first bellwether New Jersey Trial in Atlantic County Superior Court. Mr. Grossman has become well-known as a speaker and host of approximately twenty educational seminars designed to educate victims, the medical community and other attorneys. Mr. Grossman has been quoted and has appeared in numerous local and national forums. He has also been in the media as a legal commentator and advocate of victims’ rights against the corporate greed that plagues our nation. Marc Grossman ambitiously took on the challenge of co-producing his first Broadway show with ‘Indecent,’ which premiered in October 2015 and proved to be a huge success at the 2017 Tony Awards, where the play won Best Direction of a Play and Best Lightning Design of a Play while also being nominated for Best Play.

Stanley J. Sanders

Stanley J. Sanders founded The Sanders Law Firm in 1967. He practiced law for more than 50 years and left behind a legacy as a fierce victim’s advocate and dedicated philanthropist. Those who had the privilege to know him remember him as a special person and a great lawyer who believed in achieving justice for his clients even if it came at his own time and expense. Mr. Sanders once said that, when somebody is seriously injured, their choice of attorney is often the most important decision they will ever make, because the quality of their representation can determine the rest of their life. He, and the firm that he built, have changed the lives of thousands of clients for the better by never backing down from powerful groups such as insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, the medical industry, and governments. It takes strength to fight strength and building The Sanders Law Firm into one of New York’s largest and most successful personal injury law firms was his life’s work. The firm’s core values-constantly honing legal skills and knowledge, treating clients with courtesy and politeness, and using everything in their power to help injury victims-echo the values not only preached, but practiced day in and day out by Mr. Sanders. Mr. Sanders graduated Brooklyn Law School in 1966 and became a New York State bar member in 1967. Over the next five decades, he built his solo practice into a force for those in need, representing thousands of claimants and collected hundreds of millions of dollars for them. He was a member of the Nassau County Bar Association, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, and the American Trial Lawyers Association, with admissions to the Federal Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York. Among his charitable activities, Mr. Sanders was the Executive Vice President and Fundraising Vice President for four years at the Shelter Rock Jewish Center, where he was also a member of the Board of Directors for many years and instrumental in the building of a nursery school at the synagogue. He was a long time Board Member of the Library Board of the Jewish Theological Seminary and underwrote a project to restore thousands of historically important texts that were damaged in a flood. Mr. Sanders served as Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors of the Holocaust Memorial and Educational Center of Nassau County for many years. He was instrumental in the building of a new museum and the renovation of the building in which it is housed. He also represented World Trade Center victims for free. Mr. Sanders passed away in 2018. His wife Phyllis continues to work at the firm that they built together as a Senior Partner. His sons Craig, Douglas and daughter Meryl are also practicing Attorneys who honor their dad’s legacy and the firm’s history of helping people.

Ester Aronova

Ester Aronova graduated from St. John’s University in 1999 with a Bachelor of Science in Legal Studies and earned her Juris Doctor degree from New York Law School in 2004. Ms. Aronova became an Associate and later a Partner in the Law firm of Baker Sanders LLC, representing medical providers. In 2008, as the manager of client relations, Ms. Aronova was responsible for networking, marketing and bringing new clients to the firm. In 2013, as a result of her highly successful track record of networking and referral sourcing, Ms. Aronova joined the team at The Sanders Law Firm as a Partner. In 2014, Ms. Aronova founded Aronova & Associates, LLC, a firm focused on representing injured workers, third party worker’s compensation negligence cases, labor law cases and disability claims. Ms. Aronova is a frequent guest at union membership meetings, providing training sessions to members on workers’ rights and safety advocacy.