Attorneys Profiles

Richard I. Silver
Address: Herzfeld & Rubin, P.C.
40 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005
Phone: (212) 471-8500
Fax: (212) 344-3333
E-mail: RSilver@herzfeld-rubin.com 
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Richard I. Silver, MD, JD is an associate in the litigation department at Herzfeld and Rubin and focuses his practice on professional liability (including medical malpractice prosecution and defense), product liability, and all cases involving health care, medicine, science, and technology.

He attended college at Johns Hopkins University, where he majored in natural science and graduated with general honors. He was also inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.

Dr. Silver attended medical school at The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and graduated with general honors. He was also inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha, the medical honor society.

He then went on to train as a urologic surgeon at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He further pursued a pediatric urology fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. While a practicing surgeon, Dr. Silver wrote and published several articles and book chapters. He has been involved in extensive research concerning a variety of complex medical issues. His academic achievement includes the publication of 3 legal articles, 35 peer-reviewed medical articles, and 13 medical book chapters.

Prior to attending law school, Dr. Silver was an attending pediatric urologist. He was certified by the American Board of Urology in 1999, and recertified in 2008. During a decade of clinical practice, Dr. Silver was recognized and honored for his academic and clinical achievements by being elected by his peers as a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and a Fellow of the Society of Pediatric Urology.

Dr. Silver attended the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University and graduated with official concentrations in both intellectual property and constitutional law.

He is admitted to practice law in the state courts of the State of New York, and the federal courts in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.


Education:
Johns Hopkins University, B.A., 1985
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, M.D., 1989
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Urology, 1995
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Pediatric Urology, 1997
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, J.D., 2007