Gordon Price Diefenbach Founding Member

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Gordon Price Diefenbach is the Founding Member of the Diefenbach law firm and is a highly regarded matrimonial and tort attorney in New York. Concentrating in civil litigation since 1986, he has devoted his entire practice as a sought-after trial lawyer in only one area: civil litigation. 9 out of 10 of his clients say they would hire him again.

A graduate of Cornell University, B.A. in 1983, he then obtained his J.D. from the University of Buffalo Faculty of Law & Jurisprudence in 1986. He is admitted to practice law in New York, as well as in the Federal Courts: United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and in 1999 to argue cases before the United States Supreme Court, Washington, D.C.

With over 25 years of courtroom battles as a trial lawyer, Gordon Diefenbach has actively litigated hundreds of cases in New York, as well as New Jersey and Connecticut. In his long career as a trial lawyer, he has made literally thousands of court appearances.

In 1989 he was one of the junior associates who defended New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center against the Andy Warhol estate, which had sued the hospital for the medical malpractice and wrongful death of Andy Warhol during a routine gallbladder surgery at that hospital.

On another major case, he was hired to do extensive research and appellate practice for a trial lawyer who had successfully obtained a $55 million verdict against the insurer Lloyd's of London.

In 2004 he was hired by a trial attorney who successfuly sued the City of New York in a police brutality case, where the latter obtained a jury verdict of $ 50 Million.

Gordon Diefenbach's knowledge of trial tactics and litigation includes complex civil litigation and appeals in both the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, as well as to the various Appellate Divisions of the New York State Courts. Before establishing the Diefenbach law firm, he was routinely hired to do other law firm's trials because of his significant and proven track record of winning trials. He has been associated with top New York trial lawyers handling malpractice cases that go to trial.

His extensive courtroom experience has taught him to be tireless and unrelenting at trial. He is a tenacious advocate for his clients, with a deep commitment to obtaining the absolute highest possible compensation for them. During trial, he is known to roll with the punches, to think outside the box, and never loses sight of what he sees most trial lawyers forget during a trial: the jury's common sense. As one client stated, "He shows nothing but passion in front of a jury, and knows when to have the levity of a dove or the tenacity of a barracuda, that's instinct, they don't teach you that in law school."

He is a member of the Federal Bar Association, the Federal Bar Council, the New York County Lawyers' Association, the Brooklyn Bar Association, the Internet Society, and has been a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (ABCNY). In 1998 he was nomitated to become a member of the ABCNY's Committee on Central and Eastern European Affairs.

The New York Post, CNN-Atlanta, the Brazilian national television have all asked him to give his legal opinion on legal issues in the news or to appear on televison.

New York

U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. Supreme Court