Jonathan A. Dachs

jdachs@shaynedachs.com
Jonathan A. Dachs is considered one of the leading authorities on insurance law and appellate practice (among other areas) in New York. A graduate of Columbia College of Columbia University (1980) and the New York University Law School (1983), he is admitted to practice before all New York state courts, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the United States district courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He joined Shayne, Dachs in 1987, after spending the initial three years of his legal career at the distinguished New York City firm of Chadbourne & Parke.

Mr. Dachs is a member of the Nassau County and New York State Bar Associations, and a former member of the Board of Directors of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association. He was the 1995 recipient of the Outstanding Young Lawyer Award from the New York State Bar Association’s Tort Insurance & Compensation Law Section. In recognition of his “outstanding contributions to the practice of law in the field of insurance.” Most recently, he was honored to received the 2018 John E. Leach Memorial Award from the New York State Bar Association’s Torts, Insurance and Compensation law Section, in recognition of his “outstanding service and distinguished contributions to the legal profession.”

Mr.Dachs lectured frequently on such topics as Uninsured and Underinsured Motorists insurance, Dram Shop liability, legal writing, civil practice, and appellate practice before such groups as:

• American Arbitration Association
• New York State Bar Association
• New York State Trial Lawyers Association
• Bar Association of Nassau County
• Suffolk County Bar Association
• Brooklyn Bar Association
• Queens Bar Association
• St. John’s Law School

He has taught seminars on Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist insurance to Supreme Court and Civil Court judges from all parts of the State at judicial seminars and conferences, and has prepared the written training materials on that topic for judicial seminars for Appellate Term judges.

A prolific writer, he is co-author of a regular column in the New York Law Journal on “Insurance Law” and the author of a chapter entitled “Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Protection,” which appears in New York Insurance Law (LexisNexis/Matthew Bender & Co., Inc.), supplemented annually. He has also authored a chapter entitled “Uninsured Motorist (UM), Underinsured Motorist (UIM), and Supplementary Uninsured Motorist (SUM) Coverage in New York—Pre and Post-Regulation 35-D,” which appears in Weitz on Automobile Litigation & The No-Fault Handbook (NYSTLI). From November 1989 to November 1992, he served as co-editor-in-chief of the New York Negligence Reporter, published by Matthew Bender, and he has for the past several years been a regular contributor to the New York State Bar Association’s Trial Lawyers Section Digest.

In August 2016, he published a 500+ page treatise, entitled New York Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Law & Practice (Lexis Nexis/Matthew Bender). New editions of this book have been published annually ever since. See book review and order form . In addition to the extensive collection of articles he has co-authored in the New York Law Journal, Mr. Dachs has authored many other published articles, including annual reviews of uninsured, underinsured and supplementary uninsured motorist case law in the New York State Bar Journal since 1994, as well as numerous articles that have appeared in the New York Negligence Reporter, Trial Lawyers Quarterly, and Trial Lawyers Section Digest.

Jonathan Dachs is AV® Preeminent Rated by Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Ratings^SM, the highest rating for legal ability and ethics. In addition, Mr. Dachs has been named and recognized among “Long Island’s Top Legal Eagles” (Personal Injury Law) by Long Island Pulse Magazine , and has been designated a New York Metro “Super Lawyer” (Appellate Practice), as one of the top 5% of attorneys in the New York Metropolitan area since 2010.

Practice areas:

• Personal injury
• Insurance law/coverage claims
• Appeals
• Uninsured/underinsured motorists coverage
• Civil litigation
• Arbitration and mediation