Gartner + Bloom is proud to announce that managing partner Kenneth Bloom will be speaking
at the 2016 CLM National
Construction Claims Conference. The conference will be held in the
Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, California, September 28-30.
This September, the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance (CLM) will hold the most comprehensive construction claims conference ever. In
addition to addressing construction defect claims, conference sessions will
also address facets of construction-related claims including construction site
accidents/injuries, coverage issues, subcontractor issues, and new
technologies. Sessions also will address issues on the national, regional, and
state levels.
About Ken: Ken Bloom is a founding partner of Gartner + Bloom, PC., an AV rated law firm in existence for twenty-two years and with offices in New York City and Springfield New Jersey. Ken
is a skilled trial attorney, who concentrates his practice in the areas of
Casualty/Liability Defense; Insurance Coverage; New York Labor Law (Scaffold
Law); Construction Litigation including construction defect, EIFS, apparent
microbial growth (AMG), asbestos and lead paint matters, as well as Insurance
Fraud Defense and Commercial Litigation. Ken was admitted to the bar in the
District of Columbia in 1981; New York 1982; Pennsylvania 1990; the U.S. District
Court, Eastern and Southern District of New York in 1983; U.S. District Court,
Northern District of New York in 1990; U.S. Supreme Court in 1985; U.S.
District Court, Eastern District of Michigan in 1988; and the U.S. Court of
Appeals, Second Circuit 1990. He is a graduate of Cornell University (B.S., 1978), where he serves as a
guest lecturer for the course, “Managing and Resolving Conflict.” He obtained
his J.D. from American University in 1981.
Prior to founding Gartner + Bloom, Ken was an Assistant District Attorney,
Kings County, New York, 1981-1982; Senior Staff Attorney, New York City Mayor's
Strike Force, 1982-1983; Partner, O'Donnell, Fox & Gartner, P.C., New York
City, 1983-1990; Resident Senior Partner Cozen and O'Connor, New York City, 1991-1994.Ken
is a member of the New York State Former District Attorneys Association,
Brooklyn, New York; Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations- member of the
Tort and Insurance Practice Section and Alternate Dispute Resolution Section;
Co- chair of the Construction Committee of the ABA Section on Dispute
Resolution (2004-2005); District of Columbia Bar and the New York County
Lawyers Association. He is a frequent lecturer on construction and coverage
related topics, as well as ADR.
