Cassandre L. Charles

Associate

Practice Description

Representative Matters

• Participated as a member of a trial team representing an English company during a three-month trial in state court in Missouri and secured a defense verdict (2011).
• Obtained summary judgment dismissing all of plaintiff's claims against several manufacturers in a products liability lawsuit filed in New York state court (2011).
• Successfully represented a manufacturer in an appeal to the New York Court of Appeals (the state's highest court), in which the Court reversed a jury verdict in the plaintiffs' favor and dismissed the plaintiffs' claim for defective design.
• Successfully prosecuted an appeal to New York’s Second Department Appellate Division from a Brooklyn jury verdict on behalf of several product manufacturers and trade associations, securing a new trial based on constitutional errors committed during the punitive damages phase of the original trial.
• Obtained affirmance from New York's Third Department Appellate Division of summary judgment dismissal of plaintiff's claims against several manufacturers in a products liability lawsuit, and successfully defended against plaintiff's leave to appeal to the New York Court of Appeals.
• Currently assisting Nigerian counsel in the defense of several lawsuits brought by Nigerian states seeking billions of dollars in recovery of health care expenses.
• Drafted and argued a pro bono criminal appeal in New York's First Department Appellate Division (arson).
• On a pro bono basis, represented Brooklyn homeowners in litigation involving predatory lending, negotiating a favorable settlement.
• Successfully prosecuted a pro bono asylum appeal before the U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Board of Immigration Appeals.

Activities and Affiliations

• Member, American Bar Association (Section of Litigation; Products Liability Committee)
• Member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York 
   

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