McGaffick, Jeffrey M.

JORDAN A. ZIEGLER is a senior partner of the New York law firm of Pasternack Tilker Ziegler, Walsh, Stanton & Romano, LLP, where his practice includes Workers' Compensation, Personal Injury, Social Security Disability, and Municipal Disability Retirement Pensions from the New York City and New York State and Local Retirement Systems. He serves as Chair to the law firm's Municipal Disability Retirement Pension Department.

Jordan received his law degree from The Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center at Touro College in New York, and received his undergraduate Bachelors Degree from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is admitted to practice law in the state and federal courts of New York and is an active member of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association as well as the New York State and American Bar Associations, the National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO), and the New York Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH).

Jordan is Disability Counsel for numerous police and law enforcement associations throughout New York State, as well as for utility worker and building trade unions. He is General Counsel to the Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association Legal Benefit Fund, Suffolk County Police Columbia Association, and Fraternal Order of Police Lodge, Riverhead, NY. He serves on the World Trade Center Council Advisory Commission established in conjunction with the Mount Sinai-Selikoff and the NYU/Bellevue occupational and environmental medicine clinics on Workers' Compensation.

Jordan initiated and helped establish the Workers' Compensation class curriculums taught at both the New York City District Council of Carpenters Labor Technical College and the Empire State Regional Council Carpenters Apprenticeship Training Program, where he is the regular lecturer. He has also lectured extensively in the areas of Workers' Compensation, Social Security Disability, Personal Injury and Disability Retirement Pensions at many utility worker, trade union, and police and law enforcement training programs. He also lectures and works closely with the New York State AFL-CIO on its Workers' Compensation Navigator Program.

Mr. Ziegler is an active columnist in magazines, newsletters and journals for various utility worker, trade union, and police and law enforcement associations.

Jordan has once again been named as a Super Lawyer for 2012 in the area of Workers Compensation by Super Lawyers magazine. We are very proud that Jordan has been chosen for this honor. This is the seventh year that Jordan has received this prestigious award!

Jordan has recently been named to the Board of Directors of the NuHealth Foundation. NuHealth is a Long Island health care organization also known as Nassau Health Care Corporation. Read full story here: NuHeath Foundation Board of Directors welcomes its' newest board member, Jordan A. Ziegler.