NSPR LAW SERVICES - Key Persons
Mr. Gigante is an associate in the firm's Complex Commercial Litigation and Pharmaceutical Department, working out of the San Juan, PR office. He handles litigation support, depositions and internal investigations involving the opioid crisis that continues to affect communities across the nation. He also provides litigation support/discovery, research, and trial preparation for pharmaceutical litigation cases. Mr. Gigante earned his J.D. from Inter American University of PR School of Law and his LL.M. degree from Fordham University School of Law.
Education
Law School - Fordham University School of Law, LL.M., Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law
Inter American University of Puerto Rico School of Law, J.D.
Undergraduate Degree - University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Campus, B.A., English Literature
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- Client Services Representative
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- Assistant Director of Operations
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- Call Center Senior Manager
Coral Odiot-Rivera is a Partner in the firm's Environmental Litigation Department, working out of the Puerto Rico office.
Education
Vermont Law School, LLM
Inter American University of Puerto Rico, JD
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, BS
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- Judge Discussed Testimony by a Minor
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- Defense Attorney Makes Closing Statement, CourtTV, February 13, 2020
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- Partner
- Founding Board Member and Vice President of the Trial Lawyers of Puerto Rico
- Napoli Shkolnik Partner, and Opioid PEC Negotiating Team Colleagues Set Stage for $6 Billion TEVA and AbbVie / Allergan Opioid Settlement, Yahoo!Finance ( August 1, 2022 )
Hunter J. Shkolnik is an esteemed and dedicated attorney who focuses on the trials of significant personal injury cases, primarily in the area of drug, automobile, aviation-related, and heavy truck product liability litigation. As an esteemed attorney, he leads the discovery and trial teams of various mass tort pharmaceutical and medical device litigations for the firm.
He is also active in managing national litigation and plaintiff litigation groups including the American Association of Justice's Actos Litigation Group.
Mr. Shkolnik is currently serving as a chairman, leader, or court-appointed representative on Plaintiff Steering Committees in various drug and other mass torts. Additionally, Mr. Shkolnik has also held officer positions in the New York State Trial Lawyers, Nassau County Bar Association and Committee Chair positions in ATLA Health Care Finance Litigation Group, Orthopedic Implant Litigation Group, AAJ Breast Cancer Litigation Group, Co-Chair AAJ Heart Device Litigation Group, and the Chair of the Medtronic ICD and CRTD Litigation Sub Group.
Hunter is a founding board member and Vice President of the Trial Lawyers of Puerto Rico (TLPR), a trade association bringing together top trial lawyers to share expertise, build partnerships, and to add value to the local Puerto Rico community.
Mr. Shkolnik has also lectured and organized seminars on issues involving Guidant, Medtronic, and St. Jude pacemakers; ICD and lead wire recall science and litigation; cardiac device product liability litigation; class action topics such as Ethics of Mass Tort Settlements, Lone Pine, State Federal Coordination and Preemption; and has - on multiple occasions - lectured on the science related to various pharmaceuticals. He also returned as a featured speaker at the 2nd Annual Mass Torts Puerto Rico (MTPR) Conference.
He is a legal and political news analyst with extensive experience in areas such as civil and criminal law as well as election-related issues.
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- Client Services Representative
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- Attorney / Operations / IT / Finance
Justice St. George sustained Marie Napoli's $500,000,000 defamation claims against Paul Napoli's former Partner, his attorney, Cliff Robert and their publicist for liable that appeared in the NY Post and other Media. In a statement, Marie Napoli said she is pleased with St. George's "well-reasoned decision," noting her claims were sustained against Napoli's Ex-Partner and his attorney, Robert "for their unconscionable conduct." She added, "We are confident that the discovery and eventual trial of this matter will result in a substantial damages award, which will be some small consolation for the harm they have done to my reputation."
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- Client Services Representative
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- Client Services Representative
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- Partner
- Thought Leader and Founding Partner at Napoli Shkolnik PLLC
Maria E. Nery is an associate in the firm's Complex Commercial Litigation Department who focuses on discovery and litigation support for the opioid multidistrict litigation. Has worked in motion practice of removals from state court, remands, and oppositions to conditional transfer orders. Also works in electronic document review, using the Relativity platform, of voluminous and complex documents to determine issues such as responsiveness, privilege, confidentiality, need of redaction, translation of documents ( English /Spanish) depending on the applicable protocol and particularities of the assigned project.
Education
Law School - J.D. Inter American University of Puerto Rico
Undergraduate Degree - B.S. Biology Sacred Heart University, Puerto Rico
Napoli Shkolnik is pleased to announce a major breakthrough in the pursuit of justice for water providers and their communities affected by PFAS contamination in the United States. Working diligently alongside our co-leads, we have successfully settled the material terms with defendants DuPont, Chemours, and Corteva regarding their responsibility for the PFAS contamination of public water systems and the associated costs of treatment.
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- Client Services Representative
Paul J. Napoli is a nationally renowned personal injury, medical malpractice, and mass tort litigation attorney with more than 25 years of experience in the legal field. As a top injury attorney, he aggressively defends the rights of his clients in courtrooms throughout the country, fighting to ensure they get the maximum amount of compensation they deserve. Trusted by those he represents and respected by his colleagues in the legal field, he has a well-earned reputation for integrity and honesty, and a dedication to ensuring justice is served.
Education
Lewis and Clark Law School, LLM Candidate 2024
St. John's University School of Law, J.D.
Fordham University, BS
Paul Napoli has deep roots and strong personal and professional ties to the city of New York, where he began his legal education and career. Paul is a 1992 graduate of St. John's University School of Law and holds a B.S. from Fordham University (1989) in accounting. He is admitted to practice both in New York and Illinois and holds "pro hac vice" admissions in several other states.
Paul Napoli's passion is to shine a light on issues that put the well-being of the public in danger and sharing his knowledge and experience to inform others in the legal field has been a hallmark of his career. Mr. Napoli has written on physician liability for diet drug injuries, which was published in the New York Law Journal, and on "The Cost of Contamination" for the American Water Works Association Journal, in November 2012.
As a leader in the fight to protect the public against potential dangers due to unsafe and potentially illegal practices, he has extensively litigated as an environmental lawyer on behalf of municipal clients for contamination to land and water supplies resulting from petroleum and related chemical spills. While easy access to safe, clean drinking water is crucial to the health of us all, numerous reports in recent years have brought to light concerns over water contamination. Once water is tainted, it is often impossible to completely eradicate the problem, and it is crucial for water suppliers to take a proactive approach to monitor and addressing potential problems.
Paul Napoli and Hunter Shkolnik of Napoli Shkolnik PLLC, Co-Counsel with Attorney Ben Crump, Announce Lawsuit Against Hollywood Police Department, yahoo!finance (February 8, 2022)
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- Client Services Representative
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- Director on the Run for Rape Charge, New Rape Claims ( October 9, 2017 )
- Officers
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump files lawsuit against Hollywood, police officers over shooting that paralyzed man, South Florida Sun Sentinel (March 1, 2023)
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- Senior Medical Records Reviewer
Veronica has experience in the litigation of Family Law cases. Previously, she worked Pro Bono with environmental cases in Puerto Rico.