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Victor John Yannacone

Litigation Attorney at Patchogue, NY

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  • Licensed for 63 years
    State NY
    Acquired 1959
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    Currently Registered No misconduct found

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Very kind, and knowledgeable attorney.
anonymous
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gets his job done with a smile and u will love his way of thinking very honest
eric h
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About Victor

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Practice areas
  1. Litigation
    55%
    Representing plaintiffs and a limited number of selected defendants in federal courts throughout the country and the courts of the state of New York.

    64 years

  2. Environmental and natural resources
    15%
    Evaluation of environmental impact assessments and litigation over the damage to the environment — the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the diverse populations of plants and animals upon which the quality of human life on earth depends.

    54 years

  3. Business
    10%
    Counseling large and small business and not-for-profit organizations on issues of corporate governance, risk avoidance, crisis management, and international trade and finance.

    64 years

  4. Workers compensation
    10%
    Representing injured workers and the victims of occupational disease. Extensive experience and special competence in litigating issues of complex medical causation in cases of exposure to toxic substances and hazardous materials.

    64 years, 9,654 cases

  5. Energy and utilities
    5%
    Counseling and litigation involving complex environmental issues associated with fossil fuels, alternative energy sources, and climate change. Extensive experience and special competence in Environmental Systems Science, the Earth Sciences and the public health aspects of electrical energy generation and distribution.

    54 years

  6. Class action
    1%
    Lead Counsel for the American, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand combat veterans who were victims of exposure to dioxin contaminated herbicides used as chemical defoliants during the War in Southeast Asia.

    61 years, 15 cases

  7. Land use and zoning
    1%
    Counseling and litigation of complex issues involving land use planning and resource management. Drafting of and advocacy for ecologically sophisticated, environmentally responsible, economically rational, socially relevant and politically acceptable land use legislation and resource management policies.

    64 years

  8. Life sciences and biotechnology
    1%
    Counseling inventors, entrepreneurs, business and not-for-profit organizations on complex issues involving disputes over intellectual property rights, general liability issues, and regulatory concerns.

    64 years

  9. Medical malpractice
    1%
    Investigation, evaluation, and trial of complex medical malpractice and hospital liability claims.

    64 years, 40 cases

  10. Venture capital
    1%
    Due diligence counseling, investigation, and evaluation in the areas of life sciences, biotechnology, medical electronics, information technology, and communications.

    54 years

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Yannacone & Yannacone, PC
PO Box 109
Patchogue, NY, 11772-0109
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Very kind, and knowledgeable attorney.
I received a call from this attorney after putting an inquiry on the internet. He was very kind to reply. He told me things that I needed to know about my case. Great man.
Posted by eric h | May 10, 2013
gets his job done with a smile and u will love his way of thinking very honest
mr y is one of the most trusted person i know. he steps up to the plate to do his very best for u. his son jr is also a great man they are loyal to there customers and this man knows right from wrong. i have been using them for a long long time. gets his words across to u in plain English. he is the best workers comp lawyer i trust his firm as the best in long island and he proves it to u
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Cost

Rates
  • Hourly Rates $ 300-1750 per hour
  • Contingency 15%-34%
  • Retainer Sometimes

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AVVO RATING 9.4 (Superb)

Work Experience

  • Village Justice
  • Incorporated Village of Patchogue, NY
  • 1994 - 2002

Legal Cases

  • MDL 381 in re Agent Orange
  • Class Action Settlement
  • Dow Chemical, et al. v James R. Allen, et al.
  • Quashed subpoena for raw scientific data.
  • Envirtonmental Defense Fund v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  • Injunction granted
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Associations

  • Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts
  • CoFounder, Chairman Emeritus
  • 1998 - Present
  • International Council of Environmental Law
  • Charter Member
  • 1969 - Present
  • Associated Musicians of Greater NY, Local 802 AF/M
  • 1952 - Present
  • Geological Society of America (GSA)
  • Section X Representative to AAAS
  • 2004 - 2008
  • American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
  • Vice Chair, Public Outreach Committee
  • 2002 - 2007
  • American Bar Association, INCL Section
  • Founder and Chair, Environmental Law Committee
  • 1970 - 1974
  • American Trial Lawyers Association
  • Co-Founder & Co-Chair, Environmental Law Committee
  • 1969 - 1971
  • Environmental Defense Fund
  • Co-Founder, Counsel
  • 1967 - 1969
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Languages Spoken

  • English

Honors and Awards

  • Chairman Emeritus
  • Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts
  • 2005
  • Man of the Year
  • Long Island Advance
  • 1992
  • “...exemplary legal service to Vietnam Veterans. ...
  • Agent Orange Victims International
  • 1982
  • Certificate of Appreciation
  • American Bar Association Section of Insurance, Negligence and Compensation Law
  • 1974
  • National Distinguished Service Conservation Award
  • The National Wildlife Federation
  • 1969
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Publications

  • The Actual Impacts of Oil and Gas Exploration and Development On Our Environment
  • Energy and Environment: A Partnership That Works;
  • 2005
  • Sustainability of Energy and Water Through the 21 Century
  • Water and Energy, the Basis for Human Society: Are They Globally Sustainable Through the 21 Century?
  • 2002
  • Pain Management, A Practical Guide for Clinicians, Sixth Edition, (American Academy of Pain Management/CRC Press)
  • Infrared Photon Stimulation: A New Form of Chronic Pain Therapy,
  • 2002
  • Explorer
  • The Public Lands,
  • 2001
  • Environmental Geosciences
  • Science, Ethics, and Scientific Ethics in the Modern World,
  • 1999
  • The Recorder
  • It’s Time to Raise the Bar
  • 1997
  • Long Island Business News
  • “...we must make changes in the public school system...,” Long Island Business News, “Speaking Out” “...we must make changes in the public school system...,”
  • 1996
  • Long Island Business News
  • “...LI’s economic health depends on public safety...,”
  • 1996
  • Newsday
  • “Ill Gulf War Veterans Deserve Help Now,” “Viewpoints” OpEd
  • 1996
  • Risk & Insurance
  • Another Opinion of Legal Time Billing,
  • 1993
  • Kent's Mechanical Engineers’ Handbook
  • Engineers’ Liability
  • 1986
  • International Regulation of Chemical and Biological Warfare Symposium,
  • Chemical Defoliation or Chemical Warfare?
  • 1982
  • The Urban Lawyer reprinted in The Land Use Awakening: Zoning Law in the Seventies
  • Impact Zoning: Alterna- tive to Exclusion in the Suburbs,
  • 1981
  • South Dakota Law Review
  • Property and Stewardship: Private Property + Public Interest = Social Property,
  • 1978
  • Environmental Law: Practice and Procedure Handbook
  • Environmental Auditing
  • 1976
  • The Encyclopedia of Environmental Science and Engineering
  • Environmental Law
  • 1975
  • North Dakota Law Review
  • Agricultural Lands, Fertile Soils, Popular Sovereignty, The Trust Doctrine, Environmental Impact Assessment and the Natural Law
  • 1975
  • Future land Use: Energy, environmental and legal constraints
  • The Origins of Our National Environmental Policy
  • 1975
  • The Energy Crisis
  • The Energy Crisis
  • 1974
  • The Forum
  • Environmental Law
  • 1974
  • Planning, Environmental Science, Aviation
  • The Environment and the Law
  • 1974
  • Proceedings: Symposium on Energy and Society
  • Environment, Energy, Society and the Law
  • 1974
  • Examination of Medical Experts II
  • Cross-Examination of a Cardiologist to Establish Causal Relationship Between Death and Work Activity
  • 1973
  • Environmental Science, Technology, Information Resources
  • Environmental Litigation as a Source of Environmental Information
  • 1973
  • Environmental Rights & Remedies, 2 Volumes
  • Environmental Rights & Remedies
  • 1972
  • Trial Lawyers Quarterly
  • Children or Chattels?
  • 1972
  • National Environmental Information Symposium: An Agenda for Progress, Volume 2
  • Law, Legislation and Regulation
  • 1972
  • Proceedings of the Geological Society of America / National Association of Geology Teachers, 1971 Annual Meeting
  • How Much Geology is Relevant to an Eighteen Year Old Voter?
  • 1971
  • ENVIRONMENT: Resources, Pollution & Society
  • Environment and the Law
  • 1971
  • Science, 170, 503—508 (30 October 1970)
  • Systems Studies of DDT Transport,
  • 1970
  • 1 Environmental Law 8—33
  • National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
  • 1970
  • Utilizing Scientific Testimony, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH–The ATL Monograph Series
  • Defending the Environment
  • 1970
  • Master Planning the Aviation Environment
  • Environmental Concern–The Law and Aviation
  • 1970
  • Science and the Future of Man
  • Scientists in the Courtroom
  • 1970
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Speaking Engagements

  • LIMBA Long Island Mid-Suffolk Action
  • Global Warming: Danger and Opportunity
  • 2008
  • The Geoawareness Week Lecture
  • The Hudson: Revisiting a River of History... and Controversy
  • 2005
  • grand opening lecture for Geology 101
  • Introduction to Geohazards: Design with Nature... or else!
  • 2005
  • Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States Annual Meeting
  • National Energy Policy: Implications for the Intermountain West
  • 2004
  • New York State Continuing Judicial Education (MCJE)
  • Judicial Ethics
  • 2002
  • Natural Resources Forum, Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists
  • Development: Conflict and Consensus
  • 2002
  • Midyear Meeting of IOGCC, the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission
  • America’s Energy Future
  • 2002
  • IOGCC Spring Quarterly Business Meeting
  • Leading by Example: Public Information & Education about Oil & Natural Gas
  • 2002
  • IAGC Environmental Conference, Geophysical Operations and the Environment: Perception and Reality
  • Environmental Commitment: Public Perception is Really Reality
  • 2002
  • Geology for Public Policy, 98th Annual Meeting of the Cordilleran Section, Geological Society of America
  • Rational Science for Rational Policy: Geology Serving Science Through Public Communication
  • 2002
  • Pain Management: A Challenge for the New Millennium, 12th Annual Clinical Meeting, American Academy of Pain Management
  • Utilizing a National Outcome System for Resolution of Medical Legal Disputes
  • 2001
  • National Academies Energy Workshop
  • Must Global Terrorism Mean the End of Western Civilization and “One Nation, under God, with Liberty and Justice for All"? The Role of Science and Engineering, Scientists and Engineers
  • 2001
  • Keynote Address, 21st Annual Meeting, Independent Oil & Gas Association of New York
  • Independent Producers: Are We Really the Public Enemy?
  • 2001
  • Employment Opportunities in the Geological Sciences, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
  • Resume Review & Career Development
  • 2001
  • Annual Meeting, American Academy of Medical Infrared Imaging
  • Infrared Energy and Human Physiology
  • 2001
  • 12th Annual Clinical Meeting of the Pain Management: A Challenge for the New Millennium
  • Utilizing a National Outcome System for Resolution of Medical Legal Disputes
  • 2001
  • OCA Continuing Judicial Education (MCJE) program
  • Judicial Ethics
  • 2000
  • NYSBA CLE Program, Winning Your Case at the Deposition: Effective Tools for the Successful Litigator
  • Deposing Experts
  • 2000
  • OCA Continuing Judicial Education (MCJE) program
  • Review of Recent Legislation
  • 1999
  • 1999 Regional Client Counseling Competition in Criminal Law
  • Adjudicator (Judge)
  • 1999
  • American Bar Association Annual Meeting
  • Confidentiality and the Duty to Disclose
  • 1998
  • New & Innovative Use of Infrared Imaging
  • The Bernard Edwards MD Memorial Lecture, "The Future for Infrared Mammography"
  • 1997
  • Forensic Issues in Pain Management
  • Fraud
  • 1996
  • Annual Meeting Geological Society of America
  • Public Communications and Public Controversy
  • 1996
  • Annual Meeting
  • Saving Lives Through Applied New Medical Science: Thermomammography
  • 1996
  • Annual Meeting
  • Technical Considerations of Infrared Imaging for Breast Cancer Detection
  • 1996
  • Institute for Environmental Education, Geological Society of America
  • Media Workshop
  • 1995
  • Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America
  • Public Communications for Geoscientists
  • 1995
  • Second Annual Workers’ Compensation Defense and Occupational Medicine Seminar
  • Toxic Exposure in the Workplace; Third-party Liability
  • 1993
  • , Thirty-fourth Annual Kentucky Occupational Medical Association Meeting
  • Workers' Comp: A COMPlex System
  • 1993
  • Massachusetts School of Law
  • The Agent Orange Litigation: Paradigm or Paradox; Method or Madness
  • 1992
  • First Annual Workers’ Compensation Defense and Occupational Medicine Seminar
  • Occupational Disease
  • 1992
  • Workers’ Compensation Seminar, College of Insurance
  • Workers’ Compensation Seminar
  • 1991
  • American Herschel Society Annual Meeting
  • High Resolution Dynamic Digital Infrared Imaging & The Law
  • 1991
  • Science & Technology Round-table on Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources
  • Discussion Paper: Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources
  • 1990
  • Workshop on Social and Ecological Issues Raised by Incineration: Are We Asking the Right Questions?
  • Siting a Regional Ashfill: Was the Process Constitutional?
  • 1986
  • Conference on Ethics and the Environment
  • Environmental Ethics
  • 1985
  • Vietnam Generation: Spirituality and the Law Conference II
  • Agent Orange: A National Issue
  • 1984
  • Hazardous Waste Litigation Symposium
  • Defendants as Plaintiffs and Plaintiffs as Defendants
  • 1984
  • Handling Toxic Torts or Cancer Claims
  • Handling Toxic Torts or Cancer Claims
  • 1984
  • CLE Seminar, New Rochelle [NY] Bar Association
  • Word Processing and Litigation Support Systems in the Local Law Office
  • 1982
  • New Torts on the Horizon Seminar
  • The Toxic Tort Case–From Cradle to Grave
  • 1981
  • Melvin M. Belli Seminar Program on Computers in Trial Preparation
  • MDL 381 The Agent Orange Litigation: Computer Methods for Managing Complex Litigation
  • 1981
  • Litigating Cancer Claims Symnposium
  • Litigating Cancer Claims, Couirse Director
  • 1981
  • International Regulation of Chemical and Biological Warfare Symposium
  • Chemical Defoliation Or Chemical Warfare?
  • 1981
  • Environmental Land Use Planning Seminar
  • Environmental Land Use Planning
  • 1981
  • ATLA Section on Military Justice Seminar
  • Agent Orange and the Veterans’ Administration
  • 1981
  • ATLA Section on Environmental Law Seminar
  • Managing Complex Litigation and Mass Toxic Tort Claims
  • 1981
  • ABA/ALI Conference on Land Use and Development
  • Liability Issues in Handling Hazardous and Low Level Nuclear Waste
  • 1981
  • 63rd Annual Convention of the American Legion, Department of Pennsylvania
  • Agent Orange and Veterans’ Health
  • 1981
  • U.S. Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Hearings
  • Testimony on Agent Orange and Veterans’ Health
  • 1980
  • Toxic Substances and Hazardous Wastes
  • in re Agent Orange Products Liability Litigation
  • 1980
  • The Institute of Ecology, Ninth Annual Meeting, Needs for Ecological Information in Conflict Resolution
  • Mediation, Alternative to Confrontation in Resolution of Environmental Controversy, Keynote
  • 1980
  • Perceptions of Risk, Fifteenth Annual Meeting Anniversary Celebration of the NCRP
  • Regulation: A Classic Catastrophe
  • 1979
  • Environmental Seminar, Man and His Environment
  • Environmental Concerns of Eastern Long Island
  • 1976
  • ABA Bicentennial National Institute, Interdependence–The Law of the Environment
  • Environmental Auditing and the Environmental Audit
  • 1976
  • Symposium on Energy and Society
  • Environment, Energy, Society, and the Law
  • 1974
  • Future Land Use: Energy, Environmental and Legal Constraints
  • Growth Versus The Environmentï ˜The Origins of Our National Environmental Policy
  • 1974
  • National Institute on Environmental Litigation
  • Chair/Moderator
  • 1973
  • Fifth National Real Estate Investor Conference
  • Can Real Estate Cope with Environmental Protection?
  • 1973
  • Environmental Litigation Clinic
  • Equitable Remedies in Environmental Litigation
  • 1973
  • Project Survival
  • Defending the Environment
  • 1970
  • Earth Day
  • Litigation–Civilization’s Alternative to War and Bloody Revolution
  • 1970
  • Second Annual Symposium, Master Planning the Aviation Environment
  • Environmental Concern–The Law and Aviation
  • 1969
  • Science and the Future of Man
  • Scientists in the Courtroom
  • 1969
  • Plenary Session, Environmental Law, Annual Convention
  • Environmental Rights & Remedies, Keynote
  • 1969
  • Environmental Legislation and the Political Process
  • Ecologically Sophisticated, Environmentally Responsible, Socially Relevant, Economically Rational and Politically Feasible Legislation
  • 1969
  • Sixty-third Annual Convention, National Audubon Society
  • Courts of Equity Can Protect Our Environment
  • 1967
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Patchogue Litigation Lawyer Victor John Yannacone
Victor John Yannacone
Litigation Attorney
Patchogue, NY
Licensed for 63 years
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