Joseph J. Ortego

Business, Mediation
990 Stewart Avenue
Garden City, New York 11530


Business

Admitted

1980, New York, U.S. District Court, Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Third, Fifth and Ninth Circuits and U.S. Supeme Court

Law School

Boston University, J.D., 1979

Law School Graduation Year

1979

College

Syracuse University, B.A., with honors, cum laude, in History, 1976

Memberships

Nassau County, New York State and American (Co-chair, Business Torts Committee; Member, TIPS Committees on: Toxic Torts and Hazardous Substances and Environmental Law; Co-Chair of Professionals', Officers' and Directors Liability Committee, 1999-2001) Bar Associations; National Hispanic Bar Association (Past Regional President; Member, National Board of Governors); The Defense Research Institute; American Law Institute; Advisory Committee on the Restatement of Torts; ALI-ABA Committee on Continuing Education, 2000-2003; Continuing Education Product Liability Advisory Counsel (Sustaining Member); Long Island Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (Member, Board of Directors); Adults and Children with Learning Disabilities (Member, Board of Directors).

Biographical

Assistant District Attorney, New York County, 1979-1983.

Military