VCF Update 7/21/16: Special Master Sheila Birnbaum

Robert A. Grochow

July 16, 2016

We have been advised that the Special Master Sheila Birnbaum will be stepping down from her position and handing over her role to a new Special Master. We thank her for all her efforts in assisting the 9/11 community and we wish her well.

Robert A. Grochow

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Robert Grochow has over 30 years of experience as a personal injury lawyer in New York, serving as co-counsel in over a thousand cases. He has also received recognition as one of New York’s “Most Honest Lawyers” from the National Law Journal/Washington Post.

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