After a 20 year career in the New York City corrections system, culminating as an Assistant Warden at the Brooklyn Men’s Detention Center, Mr. Ridenour embarked upon a second career as a paralegal in 1993. Having joined Freehill Hogan & Mahar in 1996, he has acquired full familiarity with Federal and New York State Court practice and procedure. Mr. Ridenour works primarily providing support in personal injury cases and maintains the firm’s extensive database of asbestosis and other occupational disease cases.