ALAN S. ZWIEBEL

Was graduated from New York University in 1969 and New York Law School, in 1973. Before starting to practice in the Hudson Valley he was a staff attorney with the New York City Legal Aide Society’s criminal division. He is admitted to practice and has tried both civil and criminal cares in the State and Federal courts of New York. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court. In the past he has been granted permission to practice law, on a limited basis in courts in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Texas and Georgia.

Personal injury and civil rights cases in which he has been involved have been featured on 20/20 News (ABC), 60 Minutes (CBS), Frontline (PBS), WCBS New York and CNN.
He was the first attorney in the United States to obtain a verdict on behalf a family whose civil rights were violated through the government use of a fraudulent investigative technique called Facilitated Communication (Prieto v. County of Orange).

His investigations into a house explosion in New York and his representation of a victim led to a United States Consumer Product Safety Commission investigation of hot water heater valves and the ultimate recall of the product (Gilberti v. Robert Shaw Controls).

The results of his representation of victims of medical malpractice have been published in the New York Law Journal’s Jury Verdict Report (Halley v. Albany Medical Center, Klemarow v. , Fitchner v.David Springarn, M.D.).
In the area of criminal law he has successfully represented individuals charged with the many different offenses. He has obtained acquittals for individuals charged such varied crimes as murder, sexual assault and drug sales. He is a member of the Association of Trial Layers of America and the New York State Bar Association, of which he was a member of its House of Delegates from 1981-1983.

JONATHAN FAIRBANKS

Graduated Columbia Law School in 1977. Upon graduation he joined the Kings County District Attorney’s Office (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and tried close to 150 cases to verdict, ultimately heading the unit responsible for organized crime murders and investigations. He successfully prosecuted and convicted James Burke, infamously portrayed in the movie “Good Fellows” for murder. After being a prosecutor he became a Deputy Fire Commissioner for the New York City Fire Department where he was responsible for the fire marshal’s office, ran the legal department and counseled the fire commissioner on daily operations.

He came then came to the Hudson Valley where his focus became personal injury. As a personal injury attorney he has tried and settled many cases some in excess of a million dollars. . Shortly after winning the largest contested personal injury award in Saratoga County’s history he decided to join his old friend Alan Zwiebel.

While at Z&F Jonathan has focused on cases involving serious and catastrophic injuries have continued to obtain settlements and verdicts for some of his clients in excess of a million dollars. He won a multi million dollar settlement for a young girl injured in a stove tip case against the manufacturer ( Germond v White Westinghouse). His work in that case and with his partner Alan Zwiebel in the Bennett v. Albany Medical Center and Halley v. Albany Medical Center both complex medical malpractice matters resulted settlements worth over a million dollars for the victims.
Mr. Fairbanks has recently returned to practicing criminal law and he recently successfully defended an individual at trial who was wrongly accused of kidnapping and assaulting the man who burglarized his home.

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