Ethan B. Gerber - Lawyer in Brooklyn, NY

Ethan Gerber is an executive partner of Abrams Fensterman, LLP. and director of the departments of the transport industry and alternative insurance. Ethan Gerber is known as an experienced lawyer, both in and out of the courtroom. As a former managing partner of Gerber & Gerber, PLLC, he was the lead attorney of the largest private law firm specializing in taxi and car rental. Being one of the main representatives and lobbyists of the industry, he was the voice, face and pen of the industry, he was widely quoted and interviewed in newspapers, on radio and television.

Ethan served as president of the Brooklyn Bar Association in 2011-2012. He is also a member of numerous prestigious professional committees. He is a member of the Democratic Party Judicial Selection Committee in Kings County and for Kings County, the Judge Selection Committees of the Brooklyn Bar Association and the New York Bar Association, and was appointed Presiding Judge of the Second Department of the Appeals Division to the Independent Qualification Commission for the Election of Judges for the Second and Thirteenth Judicial Districts. He is also a longtime member of the Brooklyn Bar Association's Complaints Committee and Vice Chairman (along with Chairman and County Democratic Party Chairman Frank Seddio) The Legislative Committee of the Brooklyn Bar Association and was inducted into the Board of Directors of the New York Defense Association.

Ethan graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 1988, where he was a member, author and editor of the Law Review. He also worked as an editor and author of the law school newspaper «Justinian» and was appointed by the dean as a teacher in the training program for lawyers trained abroad and as a judge in controversial judicial competitions.

Prior to entering the hiring industry, he was an assistant Brooklyn District Attorney assigned to the Criminal Litigation Bureau, responsible for prosecuting crimes committed primarily in the Bushwick, Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhoods of Brooklyn. As a district attorney, he proudly achieved a 100 percent maximum number of convictions.

Mr. Gerber also acted as an appellate attorney at the (now defunct) top-level negligence and medical practice firm Bower & Gardner and at the equally well-known (also now defunct) plaintiff firm Schneider, Kleinick & Weitz.

Since 1999, Mr. Gerber has managed Gerber & Gerber PLLC is the leading self-insurance firm in New York and consistently the most profitable subrogation firm serving the yellow taxi industry. Known throughout the state as one of the coolest defense firms, G&G had a reputation for always putting the interests of its customers first, despite any heat or pressure exerted on it.

Ethan Gerber is also known throughout the industry as a man who has handled many complex court cases for his entrepreneur clients. Thanks to his creative and qualified legal work, he successfully defended and prosecuted such diverse issues as unfair actions of guarantors and insurance companies, civil lawsuits, admiralty jurisdiction issues, obtaining investment funds from unmanaged enterprises, and successfully represented clients' interests in many state institutions, including the Prosecutor General's Office. His experience also includes alternatives to traditional insurance.

As a lobbyist and representative, he is widely regarded as the most zealous, passionate and well-spoken representative of the industries he represents. He is widely quoted and interviewed by the print, radio and television press.