ROBERT A. HYMAN concentrates his practice in the representation of the victims of nursing home and elder care neglect and abuse, medical malpractice, automobile accidents, negligence, construction accidents and premises liability.  Mr. Hyman is a President's Club member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) and has been a member of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and the New York State Bar Association.  Mr. Hyman is also a member of the National Citizens Coalition for Nursing Home Reform (NCCNHR), the Long Term Care Community Coalition (LTCCC), Friends and Relatives of Institutionalized Aged (FRIA), and the American Medical Directors Association (AMDA). 

Mr. Hyman has many published decisions of successful cases against nursing homes and adult homes in New York. Mr. Hyman has lectured for PESI in 2003 and in 2005 and presented a paper entitled "Civil Prosecution Of A Nursing Homes Case - Plaintiff's Perspective, A Primer For The Plaintiff's Attorney".  He has lectured for Lorman in January 2005 and presented a paper entitled "Nursing Home Negligence in New York - Nursing Home Neglect And The Regulations in New York". Mr. Hyman is presently preparing a chapter on nursing home litigation for a New York State Bar Association treatise concerning personal injury practice in New York, due for publication in 2008.

Mr. Hyman came to the law field with a multi-faceted background. He received a Bachelors Degree in both Biology and Chemistry from the State University of New York with a minor in Mathematics. He pursued a graduate education and achieved a Masters Degree in Cell and Molecular Biology from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1977. He taught a number of Biology courses at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Mr. Hyman then taught Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Earth Science and Geometry at the high school level. He also served as chief negotiator for teacher unions in public sector labor contract negotiations.

In 1980, Mr. Hyman entered the Vermont Law School and graduated, in 1983, cum laude , ranked ninth in his class. While a law student, Mr. Hyman represented a disabled and impoverished man in the first case of its type against the United States Government and secured a major victory under a then new federal law - The Equal Access To Justice Act.

Mr. Hyman subsequently served as an Assistant Corporation Counsel, representing the City of New York, from 1983 through 1986. Mr. Hyman then joined the law firm of Friedlander, Gaines, Cohen & Rosenberg where he was employed to take over and develop that firm's practice in the representation of injured persons. In 1989, Robert Hyman formed his own firm, which evolved, into the "Law Office of Law Office of Hyman & Platt, P.C.".

Mr. Hyman is an experienced negligence trial attorney and public sector labor negotiator with extensive experience in municipal liability. A significant number of Bob's cases have set legal precedent for the rights of injured persons. He is admitted to the New York and Massachusetts Bars and admitted to Federal Courts in the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.