Cody McCone
Partner

Cody McCone joined O'Dwyer & Bernstien in April of 1987. He has earned a reputation as a tireless advocate for his clients, many of whom have been injured in construction site accidents in the New York area, including the Freedom Tower and Building #3 and #4 at the World Trade Center. He represents O'Dwyer & Bernstien's clients not only in the courts, but also before numerous administrative agencies.

Mr. McCone brings his broad experience in all phases of Personal Injury and Construction Accident Law to every case he handles for the firm. To cite just one example: A recent client was an undocumented worker who was injured on the job while working for an unlicensed and uninsured plumbing contractor in New York. Though the client faced what on the surface were extremely difficult legal circumstances, Mr. McCone secured a $2.5 million settlement for the client and his family. Mr. McCone also won at trial a sum of $3.1 million for a local 608 Carpenter who fell from a broken scaffold.

Among his accolades and honors, Mr. McCone is a recipient of the Irish-American Attorney of the Year Award presented by the Honorable Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney of Kings County in New York. He serves as a judge at the New York Law School Annual Charles W. Froessel Moot Court Competition. He has lectured at Notre Dame Law School, the School of Law at Rutgers University, and at the Kings Inn and Mansion House in Dublin, Ireland, where he was a guest co-speaker with Justice Susan Denham of the Supreme Court of Ireland and the Right Honorable Michael Mulcahy, Lord Mayor of Dublin. Mr. McCone has also appeared as Counsel in the Coroners Inquest Court in Dublin. Mr. McCone serves on the Judicial Screening Panel for Kings County, he is a member of the Board for the Sisters of Mercy, Inner City Handball Association, the Marriage and Relationships Institute, and Emerald Isle Immigration Center.

Mr. McCone's humanitarian approach to the law is evident in his affiliations. For the past 20 years, he has been an active supporter and defender of Irish human rights causes in the United States. A former candidate for the City Council of New York, he is a Past President of the Brehon Law Society, an Irish-American Bar Association. He also served as Acting President of Division Five, the Paul O'Dwyer Division, of the Ancient Order of Hibernians of Kings County. Mr. McCone was the 2009 Brooklyn Irishman of the year, and 2010 Brooklyn Shamrock Football Club, Guest of Honor. He resides in Bay Ridge Brooklyn with his wife Rhea and their daughters, Ciara and Kaelegh.