Gina Bernardi Di Folco

Gina Di Folco is an appellate partner at McAloon & Friedman and heads the firm’s Appellate Team. With approximately 30 years of appellate experience, she oversees the preparation of appellate briefs, substantive motions, and appellate records, while continuing to personally brief and argue significant appeals and trial Court motions on behalf of the firm’s clients.

Gina has successfully handled appeals before the New York Court of Appeals and the First and Second Departments of the Appellate Division, as well as matters before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Her appellate and post-trial work has included decisions setting aside adverse jury verdicts and securing reversals of trial court decisions denying summary judgment to the firm’s clients. She also regularly handles complex legal and procedural issues arising from litigation.

Ms. Di Folco’s substantive motion work at the trial level includes the preparation of motions in limine, post-trial motions, summary judgment motions, pre-answer dismissal motions, and briefing involving privilege and discovery disputes. She also assists with mediation statements and participates in matters proceeding through the Appellate Divisions’ pre-calendar conference systems.

Before joining McAloon & Friedman in 2010, Gina practiced at another defense firm, where she focused primarily on malpractice litigation. Her broader experience also includes bankruptcy, insurance coverage, subrogation, labor law, premises liability, employment matters, and civil rights claims under 42 U.S.C. §1983 and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Gina earned her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 1995 and her B.A. from New York University in 1992. She is admitted in New York, before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York. She is also a member of the New York Medical Malpractice Defense Bar Association.