Philip M. Gulisano

Philip M. Gulisano is a founding member of the law firm of Burden, Gulisano & Hickey, LLC. He is a trial attorney whose focus is the defense of corporations and municipalities against catastrophic personal injury claims, primarily in the areas of trucking and transportation law, product liability, construction/labor law, premises liability and municipal law. Mr. Gulisano handles cases in State and Federal Courts throughout New York.

Mr. Gulisano makes himself accessible to his clients on a 24 hour basis, as evidenced by his commitment to the firm's Emergency Response Team, which is a team of attorneys, field adjusters, accident reconstruction experts and other professionals available on a 24/7 basis to represent trucking and transportation industry clients whose vehicles have been involved in accidents across New York State.

Mr. Gulisano can be e-mailed at

Education:

• University of Akron School of Law, J.D. (cum laude), 1996
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the Akron Law Review, Citations Editor
  • Member of Environmental Moot Court Team
• State University of New York at Buffalo, B.A., 1993
• Graduate of the Defense Trial Academy conducted by the International Association of Defense Counsel at Stanford University, 2004

Practice Areas:

• Trucking and Transportation Negligence
• Product Liability
• Premises Liability
• Municipal Law
• Labor Law

Admitted to Practice:

• New York State - All Courts
• United States District Court, Western District of New York
• United States District Court, Northern District of New York

Professional Affiliations:

• Trucking Industry Defense Association (T.I.D.A.)
• Defense Research Institute (D.R.I.)
  • Trucking Law Committee Webconference Committee Chair
• National Retail and Restaurant Defense Association (NRRDA) 
• New York State Bar Association
• Erie County Bar Association
• Western New York Trial Lawyers Association
• Insurance Club of Buffalo
• Buffalo Claims Association
• Transportation Lawyers Association (T.L.A.)
• Canadian Transportation Lawyers Association (C.T.L.A.)

Civic Activities:

• Member, Amherst Nursery School Board of Directors (2010 - 2011)
• Lawyers for Learning, tutoring Buffalo City School students (2008-2010)
• Planning Board Member, Amherst, New York (2008-2011)
• Local town committee person in Amherst, New York (2000 - 2011)
  • Committee Vice Chairman
• Former Director, Amherst Youth Foundation
• Former member of the Amherst Youth Board (served 2-year term as Chairman)
• Former Vice President of the Buffalo Area Junior Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors

Publications/Speaking:

• Lecturer, Suing and Defending Municipalities, New York State Bar Association, 2005
• Lecturer, School Violence and Legal Liability, District Employees and Claims Professionals, 2006
• Lecturer, So You Have a Positive Drug Test-Now What? - Evaluating the Validity, Relevance and Admissibility of Forensic Drug and Alcohol Evidence in Trucking Accident Litigation, Defense Research Institute Webconference, January 2008
• Updating the Past, Present and Future: The Status of the United States-Mexico Cross-Border Trucking Program, For the Defense, Defense Research Institute, co-author, January 2008
• Lecturer, Forensic Drug and Alcohol Testing of Commercial Motor Vehicle Operators, Arkansas Claims Conference, September 2008
• The Need for Speed: Are Speed Limiters the Answer to Safer Highways, The Transportation Lawyer, Vol. 10, No. 2, October 2008
• The Graves Amendment: Preemption Legislation Creates a Cap on Liability, For The Defense, Defense Research Institute, co-author, January 2009
• Truck Inspection Ahead - Enter When "Flashing", author, submitted for presentation at February 2010 DRI Trucking Law Comittee Conference.
• Lecturer, CSA "2010" Update, DRI Annual Convention - Trucking Law Committee, October 2011
• CSA - The Final Version?, For The Defense, Defense Research Institute, co-author, December 2011
  

Honors/Awards:

• Named "Who's Who in Law" by the Buffalo Law Journal, 2009, 2010 and 2011
• Recipient of Buffalo Business First's annual 40 under Forty award given to Buffalo's leaders under the age of 40 in 2009