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Profile Title: Special Counsel Location: New York Telephone: 212.946.9476 Fax: 212.273.4325 Admitted: New York, 1970 California, 1977 New Jersey, 1983 Education: B.A., Adelphi University, 1967 cum laude J.D., New York University, 1969 cum laude, Order of the Coif, Administrative Director of the Moot Court Board, Recipient of the Benjamin F. Butler Award Practice Areas Accountants' Liability Litigation Mass Tort / Environmental Litigation Securities Litigation Mr. Shaughnessy joined the firm of Casey, Lane & Mittendorf in New York City as a litigation associate in 1969 and became a litigation partner at that firm in 1976. In 1982, Mr. Shaughnessy joined the firm of Haythe & Curley as a litigation partner, and he was the managing partner of the firm for two years. In 1987, Mr. Shaughnessy joined the firm of Windels, Marx, Davies & Ives (now known as Windels, Marx, Lane & Mittendorf, LLP) as a litigation partner. He was the chairman of the Windels, Marx Litigation Department from 1988 through 1998, and was a member of the firm's Executive Committee from 1990 to 1992. Mr. Shaughnessy joined Milberg Weiss in 2001.Over the course of his career, Mr. Shaughnessy has specialized in commercial, securities, insurance, aviation and bankruptcy litigation. Mr. Shaughnessy was lead defense counsel for Pan American World Airways, Inc. in In re Air Disaster at Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21, 1988, M.D.L. 799 (TCP) (E.D.N.Y.), and tried that case on behalf of Pan Am to a jury for three months.In addition to his state admissions to practice, Mr. Shaughnessy is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fifth and Ninth Circuits, the United States District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, Northern and Western Districts of New York, the Southern District of California and the District of New Jersey, and the United States Tax Court. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and Federal Bar Council. | 