U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York
U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Anthony D. Luis is a Partner based in Rawle & Henderson’s New York City Office and Hackensack offices and admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey. Anthony concentrates his practice with the defense of clients involving architects & engineers malpractice, casualty & premises liability, commercial litigation, commercial motor vehicle litigation, construction defect cases, employment law, medical malpractice, and oral surgery & dental malpractice. Anthony served as an Assistant District Attorney in Queens as a prosecutor in the Homicide Investigation Unit, Domestic Violence Unit, and the Felony Trial Bureau where he tried numerous cases to verdict including jury trials.

In addition to being admitted in New York and New Jersey, Anthony is admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York and the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Anthony has been rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating given by Martindale-Hubbell’s Peer Review Ratings system.

Anthony received his Juris Doctor at Western New England University School of Law in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1999. He earned a B.A. in Political Science and English in 1996 from State University of New York at Geneseo.

Anthony completed the curriculum at the TIPS/ABOTA National Trial Academy held at the National Judicial College in 2018.

PERTINENT EXPERIENCE:
Assistant District Attorney, Queens District Attorney’s Office, Kew Gardens, New York, 1999-2003

PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS:

Co-Presenter, Tractor-Trailer Accident Response: Early Post-Accident Consideration. Presented before OneSource CMS on October 26, 2022 and Qualitas on December 2, 2022.

Lecturer, Medicolegal Issues & Oral Cancer: Avoiding Malpractice Pitfalls, Oral Cancer Symposium at the Greater New York Dental Meeting. November 2021.

Co-Author, New York: Construction—Rawle & Henderson LLP Obtains Dismissal for Contractor, Rawle’s Reports, Volume 23, Number 11, November 2019

Author, New York: Personal Injury—Summary Judgment Granted on Behalf of Snow Removal Company and Retail Liquor Store, Rawle’s Reports, Volume 22, Number 4, April 2018

Co-Author, New York—Summary Judgment for Trucking Company and Its Good Samaritan Driver, Transportation Law Update, Volume 19, Number 2, February 2018

Co-Presenter, Updates in New York Case Law: Labor Law Section 240(1); Functional Equivalent of Contractual Privity; Delegation of Job Safety; Discovery Trends, XL Catlin “Lunch & Learn,” February 2018

Co-Author, New York: Commercial Motor Vehicle―Summary Judgment for Trucking Company and Its Good Samaritan Driver, Rawle’s Reports, Volume 21, Number 12, December 2017

Co-Presenter, Citation Manipulation: An Overview of the Effect of Traffic Tickets and Equipment Violations On Motor Carriers and Their Drivers, Arkansas Trucking Seminar, September 2017