SSBWV&G Welcomes Its New Associates
Sanders, Sanders & Block welcomes Carolyn Burns, Esq. as an associate with the firm. Ms. Burns is an honors graduate of St. Johns University and was admitted in January, 1985. She has worked as an attorney for both plaintiffs and defendants throughout her career.

Ms. Burns specialties lie in processing claims for and against drivers, home owners, business entities and corporations. Although Ms. Burns has tried many cases to verdict, she values the benefits that fair and just settlements bring to clients.

In addition to her distinguished legal career, Ms. Burns has also been active in informing the community about the threatened rights of medical malpractice and accident victims due to the large public relations campaigns of major insurance companies; campaigns which have attempted to paint attorneys and clients as litigious villains out to defraud the general public. She has spoken to parent-teacher associations, and other community groups warning them of the ever increasing encroachment upon their rights to pursue fair and just compensation in our courts.

Sanders, Sanders & Block welcomes Howard Eison to our firm. Howard is a 1974 honors graduate of New York Law School and was admitted to the Bar for the State of New York in March, 1975.

Following his admission to practice law in both the State and Federal Courts of New York, he has held several positions with plaintiff and defense personal injury firms. Mr. Eison's expertise has been in representing personal injury clients in medical malpractice, products liability, and catastrophic tort injury cases.

Before joining the firm, Mr Eison had been associated with the law firm Fuchberg & Fuchberg, and thereafter with one of its former senior litigation partners, Edwin N. Weidman, Esq. As an associate of Mr. Weidman, Mr. Eison was involved in processing and taking to trial on numerous major tort litigation matters. Mr. Eison has attained several six figure verdicts after fighting through heavily contested trials.

Sanders, Sanders & Block is also proud to announce that Meryl Sanders Viener has joined the firm. Meryl is literally "one of the family." Her parents, Phyllis and Stanley Sanders, are partners at the firm and her husband. Joseph Viener, is also an associate working for the Meryl is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis. She then attended Brooklyn Law School where she was a Deans Merit Scholar. She obtained her Juris Doctor in Law and was admitted to practice law in the State of New York in 1993.

Throughout law school and upon graduating Meryl was an associate for Edwin Weidman, one of the country's most accomplished trial lawyers. Meryl has processed complex personal injury, medical malpractice, and lead poisoning cases. She was a part of several six and seven figure verdicts and settlements for traumatically injured clients.

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