David Oddo, a name partner at Okun, Oddo & Babat, is taking the reins of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association just as the cards in his view have “become increasingly stacked” against patients and consumers.

Oddo was sworn in in June as the 51st president of the NYSTLA, succeeding Matt Funk of Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano.