David MacCartney

David is a trial lawyer whose background and experience provides the unique ability to handle a wide range of litigated matters. He graduated cum laude in three years from Duke with an economics degree, then graduated law school magna cum laude from Georgetown. He began his career as an associate with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, where he specialized in complex commercial litigation, insurance coverage, and products liability. He moved back home to Rockland County in 1995, where he has honed his trial skills and expanded his practice areas ever since. He has achieved an AV (Preeminent) rating from Martindale Hubbell, the highest such rating available. David has recovered millions of dollars for his clients who were injured by the negligence or malpractice of others. For example, he recently obtained an award of over $5.2 million for a child who suffered cerebral palsy as the result of a physician's malpractice in failing to recognize signs of fetal distress and timely deliver the baby. The recovery included enrollment of the child in the N.Y. Medical Indemnity Fund, and is one of the highest ever recorded in Rockland County. He has also successfully represented clients in many other litigated matters, including eminent domain, contested estates and accountings, zoning/planning disputes, and environmental matters. He has achieved historic victories in these areas as well; he was the first and only lawyer in New York to use environmental laws to close an adult book store, and was the first in over a century to successfully defeat the use of eminent domain on the ground that the municipality acted solely for private benefit, not the public. David is active in the community and charities, serving as a Trustee of the Foundation to Inspire Excellence in Nyack Public Schools ("Inspire Nyack"), and he leads the fundraising efforts of the Giving to Ghana Foundation. He coaches youth hockey and lives in Valley Cottage with his wife and three children. Specialties: Trial lawyer. Substantial personal injury and medical malpractice, eminent domain, real estate and property rights litigation, zoning, planning and land use, estate litigation.