Daniel Woodard

Diane Paolicelli is a founding partner of Phillips & Paolicelli, who has devoted a 30-year legal career to seeking justice for those who fall victim to the and wrongful misconduct of others. She champions the rights of  children born with birth defects because of their parents' exposure to toxic chemicals; workers who get cancer and other diseases due to their employers' lack of regard for safety; patients who suffer unnecessarily or die because medical professionals failed to meet their responsiblity to treat them with due care; consumers who are hurt by dangerous drugs and products; and employees who are robbed of their dignity and livelihoods because of unlawful workplace discrimination.   Recently, Diane has focused on vindicating the rights of women wrongfully exposed to mercury, arsenic, and other toxic heavy metals and chemicals, which wreak havoc with their reproductive systems, and cause them to be infertile or bear children with horrific birth defects.  She has a deep interest in protecting women and children injured by American corporations who shamelessly take their dangerous products abroad. To that end she has undertaken the representation of innocent families from the poorest areas of the Dominican Republic and  Argentina, who were wrongully exposed to the harmful constituents of coal ash waste and to pesticides used in tobacco farming.   Diane has also promoted workplace safety issues by prosecuting death and injury cases under the Federal Employer Liability Act and the New York State Labor Law. She has advanced employee protection under federal, state, and city anti-discrimination legislation by representing workers who have suffered unequal treatment because of race, age, gender, or disability.