ARTHUR H. ROSENBERG is a partner with the firm. He is a well-respected litigator and trial attorney with more than 20 years of experience. He concentrates his practice in the field of aviation, products liability, medical malpractice and transportation tort litigation.

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Rosenberg was a program manager and engineer for a major aerospace corporation. In this capacity, he performed design engineering for aerospace vehicles including preliminary, detail and conceptual design work. Mr. Rosenberg was involved with and made many substantial contributions to well-known projects including the Space Shuttle, F-14, A6 and other Navy and experimental aircraft. As a program manager, he directed program and project activities. Mr. Rosenberg also holds a commercial pilots license with instrument ratings.

Prior to becoming a partner with Soberman & Rosenberg, he practiced aviation law in New York City with the law firm of Kreindler & Kreindler. Mr. Rosenberg left his New York City practice to start Soberman and Rosenberg with his partner Alan Soberman. Mr. Rosenberg successfully combines his substantial aviation, engineering and technical background with extensive litigation and trial experience. He has served on plaintiff liability committees in aviation mass disaster litigation including the Air Florida Litigation involving the crash of a Boeing 737 into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., Air Canada Litigation involving the in-flight fire of a DC-9 airplane near Covington, Kentucky and others. He was actively involved in and represented families and victims of the World Trade Center disaster and victims in the TWA Flight 800 and Swissair disasters. He has successfully prosecuted numerous lawsuits against manufacturers of general aviation aircraft and commercial airliners in the United States. Many of his efforts have resulted in design changes to aircraft and airline procedures to prevent future accidents.

He has authored numerous articles including: "Conducting Discovery in Foreign Countries," Southern Methodist University, March, 1985, Aviation Space Law Symposium; "Death on the High Seas Act - Right to a Jury Trial," Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association, 1987; "The Government Contractor Defense," New York State Trial Lawyers Digest, July, 1991; "Aircraft Manufacturer Liability," Journal of the Bar Association of Nassau County, December, 1991; "A Military Contractor's Best Friend," The Government Contractor Defense, American Bar Association, Aviation Litigation News, Spring, 1992; "Instructions Not To Answer Questions," Nassau Lawyer, Spring, 1993; Aviation and Space Law Symposium “ Conducting Discovery in Foreign Countries”, Southern Methodist University, March, 1985.

Mr. Rosenberg is a member of the Nassau County Bar Association (Chairman, 1993-1995; Vice-Chairman, 1991-1992, Aviation Law Committee), New York State and American (Member, Aviation Law Committee) Bar Associations; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; New York State Trial Lawyers Association; Lawyers Pilot Bar Association; Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, A.O.P.A.

Some of the cases he was involved or reported in include: Flores v. ATA, 2003; World Trade Center disaster, 2001; SwissAir MD-11, Flight 111, 1998; TWA B-747, Flight 800, Long Island, New York, 1996; Gruentzig v. Beech Aircraft, 1990; Resnick v. Sikorsky, 660 F.2d 415 (D. Conn 1987); Pan American, Flight 73, Karachi, Pakistan, 1986; Seville v. Southmost, 742 F.2d 786 (3rd Circuit, 1986); Eastern Airlines B-727, Flight 980, La Paz, Bolivia, 1985; In re Air Crash near Covington, Kentucky, 1985; Szatanek v. McDonnell, 1984; Robinson v. Parker-Hannifion, 447 M.E.2d 781 (1982); In re Air Crash near Tazewell, Tennessee, 1982; In re Air Crash near Frederick, Maryland, 1982; In re Air Crash of Air Florida, Flight 90, 1981.

He is a member of the New York Bar and admitted to practice before many federal courts throughout the country. He is listed in Who's Who in American Law and the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating it bestows on attorneys.
ALAN R. SOBERMAN is a partner in the firm. He heads the firm’s commercial litigation, tax law and wills, trusts and estates department. Mr. Soberman is graduate of Franklin & Marshall College and received his Juris Doctor from Ohio State University Law School where he was an associate editor of the Law Journal. Mr. Soberman received his Master of Law in Taxation from New York University. He concentrates in litigation, corporate law, estate planning and federal taxation.

Mr. Soberman was an adjunct assistant professor at Adelphi University and has served as an instructor at Long Island University. He has been a frequent lecturer on a variety of topics to professional groups including the First District of the New York State Dental Society, New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, the Greater New Jersey Estate Planning Council, the C. W. Post Tax Institute and the Fairleigh Dickinson Tax Institute.

He has authored articles for New Jersey State Bar Journal, the CPA Journal, The Tax Adviser, and the Journal of Pension Planning and Compliance.

He is a member of the New York, New Jersey, Florida and federal Bars, the New Jersey Bar Association and the Pension Council of Long Island.
DAVID L. SILVERMAN is counsel to the firm. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 1989 and New York University School of Law in 1991 where he received his LL.M. in Taxation. He concentrates in the areas of commercial litigation, corporate and tax law. Before becoming counsel with Soberman & Rosenberg in 2004, he was associated with Pryor Cashman Sherman & Flynn, LLP and Meltzer Lippe & Goldstein, LLP. He is an active member of the American Bar Association and Nassau County Bar Association.
JOSEPHINE A. DOYLE attended St. John's University School of Law, graduating in 1987. She is engaged in the practice of law with an emphasis on Elder Law, Trusts and Estates, Real Estate and Guardianships. Ms. Doyle is a member of the New York State Bar Association and Nassau County Bar Association. She has served as a Small Claims Assessment Review Officer for Nassau County and Small Claims Hearing Officer for Queens County. She has also represented a major airline in labor relations matters.
HARLEY FASTMAN received a B.A. in Psychology from the State University of New York in Albany in 1991 and his Juris Doctor from Touro College, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in 1995. He is a member of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and concentrates in personal injury and wrongful death litigation involving automobile, motorcycle and construction accidents.
ALDO TRABUCCHI is counsel to the firm. He is a graduate of St. John's University where he received his B.B.A. in 1957 and Juris Doctor in 1961. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1962. Mr. Trabucchi is a member of the New York State Bar Association, Association of Trial Lawyers of America and the New York State Trial Lawyers Association.

He concentrates in litigation, real estate law, matrimonial law, construction litigation, law firm dissolution, wills, trusts and estate planning and zoning appeals.
KATRINA PATTERSON is counsel to the firm. She received a B.B.A. in History from York College in 1995 where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with Dean’s List distinction. She received her law degree from New York Law School where she also graduated Cum Laude in 1999.

Ms. Patterson was Chief Notes and Comments Editor to the New York Law School Journal of Human Rights in 1998 and 1999.

Following her graduation from law school she was Corporate counsel for SBLI USA Mutual Life Insurance Company in New York. She practices in the areas of commercial litigation, corporate law, tax law, and wills, trusts and estates.

She has numerous professional affiliations including: Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Christian Cultural Center Legal Affinity Group, Nassau County Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, Queens County District Attorney’s Office Appeals Bureau Pro Bono Program, Robert F. Wagner National Moot Court Competition, and the Ujamaa Investment Group.
BOB GREEN is counsel to the firm. Mr. Green is a graduate of the State University of New Jersey where he received a B.S. in 1974. He received his Juris Doctorate in 1980 and was admitted to the New York State Bar that year.

He concentrates his law practice in litigation and business law. He is general counsel to "The Skytypers", a New York general aviation company, and has experience in aircraft crash investigation and litigation against the United States concerning aircraft components and their design and manufacture.