Belinda Dodds-Marshall, born in Boston, Massachusetts is a Partner who practices in the Firm's Garden City office. Her practice areas include Medical Malpractice Defense, Nursing Home Defense and General Liability Defense litigation. She has extensive experience representing physicians and dentists, medical groups and hospitals, and nursing homes and home health care agencies in all aspects of litigation from claim inception through trial and appeal. She is published in the area of decubitus ulcers and has given presentations on topics related to risk management, record documentation and dental liability. She completed her undergraduate education at the College of New Rochelle, where she graduated with honors. After being a Federal Junior Fellowship Recipient and several years of employment in the public sector with the United States Coast Guard and the New York City Health Department, she received her J.D. from the City University of New York School of Law at Queens College where she was a Child Welfare Fund Fellowship recipient and completed an internship in Health Law in the Litigation Bureau of the New York Attorney General’s Office. Prior to entering private practice Ms. Dodds-Marshall served as an in-house litigation attorney for a major insurance carrier. Belinda is admitted to practice law in New York, New Jersey, Washington, D.C. and the United States District Court of New Jersey.

Practice Areas
Medical and Dental Malpractice Defense Litigation
Nursing Home Liability
General Liability Litigation

Education
J.D. City University of New York School of Law at Queens College, 1996
B.A. College of New Rochelle, 1992

Bar and Court Admissions
New York (1997)
New Jersey (1996)
Washington, D.C. (2000)
U.S. District Court – District of New Jersey (1996)

Other Professional Affiliations
American Bar Association
New York Bar Association Brooklyn Bar Association