Bernard A. Anderson , J.D.

Bernard A. Anderson is a Senior Associate of the Law Firm of Weiser & Associates and is chair of the Auto and Premises Liability Department. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Pittsburgh in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and received his law degree from the University of California, Davis, School of Law in 1988. Along with the other injury attorneys at Weiser & Associates, Mr. Anderson is committed to offering aggressive legal representation to residents of Staten Island, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and other New York areas.

After receiving his Juris Doctorate degree, Mr. Anderson was commissioned as an officer in the United States Air Force, and served as a Judge Advocate General (military attorney) for six years. As an Air Force JAG officer, Mr. Anderson handled 36 courts-martial, represented two separate military hospitals, and investigated and defended dozens of claims against the Air Force, ranging from cases of medical malpractice to deaths and property damage from aircraft crashes.

He returned to civilian practice in 1995, operating a law practice specializing in litigation, and also serving as an Assistant District Attorney for 5 years. Mr. Anderson has conducted civil jury trials involving personal injury, breach of contract, fraud, and real estate, and criminal jury trials of virtually every major and minor crime, including homicide, rape, drug trafficking, arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated assault, kidnapping and many others. For the last six years, Mr. Anderson has practiced exclusively in the area of personal injury litigation on behalf of plaintiffs in the State of New York.

Mr. Anderson is admitted to practice before the state courts of New York and Pennsylvania, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals (Third Circuit), United States District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania and Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, and the United States Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals.