Goldberg Segalla added Jacklyn M. Penna to the firm’s Workers’ Compensation group in Rochester.
Jackie has dedicated more than 26 years to counseling and defending employers, insurance carriers, and third-party administrators in complex workers’ compensation claims throughout New York. She regularly appears before the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board and manages every aspect of claims from start to finish – conducting legal research, preparing motions, appeals and memoranda of law, and presenting oral argument before the Appellate Division, Third Department, and the New York State Court of Appeals. Drawing on her extensive experience, Jackie authored a chapter in the New York State Bar Association’s Workers’ Compensation Law and Practice in New York. She is also an adjunct professor, teaching in the Paralegal/Criminal Law program at Monroe Community College.
Jackie earned her B.A. from Ithaca College and her J.D. from the Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law.
Irene Kolonias was added to the firm’s Workers’ Compensation group in White Plains.
Irene counsels and defends employers, insurers, and third-party administrators in workers’ compensation matters. She is involved in all aspects of claims from initial referral through resolution, including discovery, hearings, depositions, arbitrations, mediations, and trials. Before joining Goldberg Segalla, Irene was with a law firm that focuses on securities class action matters, where she drafted pleadings, motions, statement of claims, and memoranda in securities fraud class actions arising under the FINRA Rules, Securities Act of 1933, and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Irene earned her B.A. from the University of Miami and her J.D. from the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University.
Nile W. Tracy was added to the firm’s Workers’ Compensation group in Princeton.
Nile counsels and defends employers, insurers, and third-party administrators in workers’ compensation matters throughout New Jersey. He is involved in every stage of the workers’ compensation claims process, including conducting depositions, settlement negotiations, mediations, and preparation of petitions and motions. Nile draws on experience as a law clerk to the Hon. James D. Fattorini of the Burlington County Superior Court, where he reviewed pleadings, motion papers, and briefs; provided weekly summaries of all juvenile matters coming before the court; and drafted bench memoranda, orders and decisions made by the court.
Nile earned his B.A. from Rowan University and his J.D. from the Widener University Delaware Law School.
Jacqueline N. Roman was added to the firm’s Commercial Litigation and Arbitration group in Garden City.
Jacqueline is an experienced litigator representing a range of clients in business and commercial matters, including high-value real estate and complex commercial disputes involving breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and fraud. Managing matters from inception through resolution, Jacqueline regularly appears in state and federal court and in arbitration before AAA and JAMS. Her experience also includes defending high-exposure labor law and premises liability matters, and acting as general counsel to condominium and cooperative boards in New York City.
Jacqueline earned her B.A. from Boston College and her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School.
And Chad J. Layton was added to the firm’s Transportation group in Chicago.
An accomplished trial and appellate attorney, Chad concentrates his practice on complex civil matters, focusing on businesses in the transportation industry. He has extensive experience investigating and defending lawsuits involving catastrophic injuries, property damage, and wrongful death. Over the course of more than 25 years in practice, Chad has represented clients in the transportation, retail and hospitality, financial, pharmaceuticals, product manufacturing, telecommunications, and life sciences industries in matters involving traumatic injury, premises liability, employment, information privacy, product liability, and complex commercial disputes. He has defended clients in more than 30 states including in state and federal courts in Illinois, California, Florida, Georgia, and New York.
A thought leader in the areas of technology and cyber risk, Chad has presented on the topic to the American Bar Association, the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance (CLM), and the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association, and contributed numerous articles to the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (IICLE). He currently serves as president of the Midwest Chapter of the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance.
Chad earned his B.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his J.D. from The John Marshall Law School.
