Claims Administration
Practice Areas - Kevin J. Harrington is a trial lawyer who handles a wide range of complex business and tort litigation, including cases in the areas of insurance, professional liability, employment, construction, environmental, toxic tort, products liability, insolvency, business torts and intellectual property.
Bar Activities and Publications - Mr. Harrington is a member of the Trial Evidence Committee of the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association and of the Federal and Commercial Litigation Section of the New York State Bar Association. He co-authored Privacy Rights of Employees in the Modern Workplace, NYSBA Torts, Insurance & Compensation Law Section Journal Summer 2011. In September, 2003, he was a panel speaker on "Ethical Issues in Construction Litigation" of the New York City Panel of NYSBA Program "Construction Work Site and Accident Litigation". He has twice taught a CLE course for the New York State Trial Lawyers Association from the "defense perspective" on Sexual Harassment Litigation: Evaluating the Case. He has lectured at the annual meeting of the Risk Insurance Management Society (RIMS) on lead paint liability claims.
Biography - Mr. Harrington graduated with Honors from Brown University in 1978 and thereafter attended Georgetown University Law Center, graduating in 1981. While at Georgetown, Mr. Harrington was a law clerk to the United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and for the Enforcement Division of the Environmental Protection Agency. Mr. Harrington then spent more than four years as an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, where he served in the Trial Division. Upon leaving the District Attorney's Office, Mr. Harrington became an associate with Lord Day & Lord, Barrett Smith in New York City. Mr. Harrington then became a partner at Rivkin, Radler & Kremer in Uniondale, New York, prior to establishing the predecessor firm to Harrington, Ocko & Monk. His practice concentrates primarily in complex commercial, employment, professional liability and insurance litigation. He has written articles on several such topics, including: Sexual Harassment Litigation: The Statutory Framework for the New York State Trial Lawyers Institute in 1999, and updated in 2000. In May, 1998 his materials entitled Lead Paint Exposures: Who's Left Holding the Bucket were presented at a symposium sponsored by the Risk Insurance Management Society (RIMS).