Meet Our Attorneys
Peter N. Littman
Peter N. Littman founded the law firm in 1992, and spending 13 years as an associate and partner at another law firm, which specialized in personal injury law. Attorney Littman has 25 years experience representing injured workers in Workers Compensation and Social Security Disability matters. He has also represented injured victims in hundreds of auto accidents, and in every variety of personal injury including defective products, premises accidents, slip and fall accidents, employment discrimination, and sexual harassment and assault. Attorney Littman has participated in over 50 jury trials in the State and Federal Courts of New York and Pennsylvania.
Peter was a member of the Board of Directors of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association for 16 years, and is now a Director Emeritas. He is past President of the Tioga County Bar Association, past President of the Southern Tier Trial Lawyers Association, and a 20 year member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. He was previously admitted to the practice of Law in California (1973), and Pennsylvania (1984), and has been a member of the New York State Bar since 1979. A 1972 graduate of Columbia Law School, he is also a member of the Bar in all the Federal Courts in New York, Pennsylvania, and California, and the United States Supreme Court.
Lisa J. Babiarz
Lisa has been specializing in all aspects of workers compensation law for over seven years. Prior to receiving her law degree from Syracuse University in 1999, Lisa spent 10 years as a Registered Professional Nurse, working at Auburn Memorial Hospital. With training and experience in both law and nursing, Lisa is particularly well qualified to understand how an injury can affect a person's ability to work, and to advocate for the medical treatment which an injured worked requires. Lisa is a member of the Bar of the United States Supreme Court, the New York State Bar, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and the Injured Workers Bar Association. Her professional work experience has included work in a large law firm defending workers' compensation insurance companies as well as work as a Nurse Case Manager for a workers compensation agency. In addition to her law degree, Lisa has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from SUNY Health Science Center in Syracuse.
Stephen B. Flash
Steve Flash specializes in collaborative matrimonial law (a new and effective means of settling custody and divorce issues through respectful communication rather than financially and emotionally expensive acrimony). Steve is one of eight lawyers in Tompkins County specially trained in collaborative law techniques. Collaborative law serves our clients well for it is a means to achieve a "good divorce" in that the resulting agreement comes from the client and is not forced by threat of litigation. In this way the resulting agreement is far more likely to last and is less expensive than proceeding by threat of litigation. His practice also includes real estate purchase and sales as well as landlord tenant relations. Steve is a native Ithacan who graduated from Cornell University in 1981 and from Cornell Law School in 1985. He was an Assistant District Attorney in Bronx County for three years. He returned to Ithaca in 1988 and had a general practice as an associate with Wiggins and Masson for two years before returning to prosecution as an Assistant District Attorney for Tompkins County for six years. He gained considerable trial experience in the courtroom which he continues to this day as a part-time Assistant County Attorney presenting JD and PINS cases in Family Court. For 5 years before joining the Littman practice he had his own practice and was part of the team that successfully developed the Boatyard Grill restaurant and Ithaca Boating Center complex. This project gives him experience in real estate development issues and thereby broadens the scope of services we can provide to our clients.
Anthony J. Gaenslen
J. Anthony Gaenslen has been specializing in workers compensation and Social Security Disability issues for the past 15 years. A graduate of Yale University, and the Cornell University Law School, Tony began his legal career in 1967 as a Special Advisor to the Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board. He then served as Associate House Counsel to the Teamsters Union, and on the legal staff of Caesar Chavez, the pioneer labor leader for the United Farmworkers' Union. From 1975 to 1985, Tony concentrated on federal class action cases involving employment discrimination, representing migrant workers and women faculty members in matters of unequal wages and benefits. Tony currently represents injured workers in all aspects of workers compensation and Social Security Disability, and still manages to spend time writing a book on the evolution of Western Thought since Plato and Aristotle.
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