Chaffin Luhana is a personal injury law firm in New York City with a Midtown Manhattan office and additional locations in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Founding partners Eric Chaffin and Roopal Luhana built the practice around a simple motto: Doing Good by Doing Right.
The team has recovered over $1 billion for injured clients. Cases run from car and truck crashes to dangerous drugs, toxic exposure, and sexual abuse claims. In one recent trial, a jury found Uber liable and awarded $8.5 million.
Staff includes former prosecutors, nurses, and social workers alongside trial attorneys, with more than 250 years of combined experience. Clients pay nothing until the firm wins, and the phones are answered 24/7.
Few firms can say they changed New York State law. The Platta Law Firm did exactly that in Wilinski v. 334 E. 92nd Housing Development Fund Corp., a case that won greater protection for construction workers hurt by falling objects.
Founding partner Slawomir Platta leads a team with 150-plus years of combined experience. The firm secured a $48 million award for an injured worker, the largest construction recovery in the state that year. Other practice areas include car, truck, bus, and train accidents, workers' compensation, and wrongful death.
Offices sit in the Financial District and Midtown. Staff assists clients in Polish and Spanish, and the firm works on a contingency fee basis with no cost unless you recover.
Partners Jordan Hecht, Judd Kleeger, and Jonathan Damashek left large firms to start HKD in 1999. Their boutique approach means smaller caseloads and direct access to a New York City personal injury lawyer rather than an intake assistant.
The firm has recovered more than $825 million, including a $35 million product liability result and a $20 million falling object case. Attorneys try cases in every borough and know how local juries in New York, Kings, and Richmond County courts tend to react.
Work covers construction accidents and Labor Law 240 claims, motor vehicle crashes, MTA and subway incidents, premises liability, and brain and spinal cord injuries. Every client is assigned a case manager, and there are no upfront costs.
More than $5 billion recovered over a century of practice puts this Manhattan firm in rare company. Recent results include a $272.5 million settlement in the Tribeca crane collapse and $182 million for victims of the Valhalla train crash.
Managing partner Ben Rubinowitz leads 16 attorneys, among them appellate specialists and a licensed physician. The firm deliberately caps its caseload at roughly 100 matters a year so each one gets full trial preparation.
Best suited to catastrophic injury, medical malpractice, and wrongful death claims that other lawyers refer out.
Hach & Rose, LLP is a Manhattan injury practice founded by Gregory Hach and Michael Rose nearly 25 years ago. The pair have recovered well over $1 billion, including a $25 million bus accident settlement and a $13 million verdict for a union painter.
Union members and railroad workers make up a large share of the caseload, and the firm handles FELA claims that many general practices avoid. Employment law, Social Security disability, and mass tort matters round out the services.
The team offers multilingual support and free case reviews.
Clients call Michael S. Lamonsoff "The Bull," and the nickname has stuck through nearly $1 billion in settlements and verdicts. His team carries more than 150 years of combined litigation experience.
Construction accidents dominate the results list, topped by a $37 million award, followed by a $16 million verdict for a survivor of sexual abuse. Every file is prepared for trial, which tends to push insurance companies away from low offers.
Staff work in Spanish and Portuguese, with offices in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, and New Jersey.
Forty years of practice sits behind Rosenbaum Meier Personal Injury Lawyers, whose results include a $65 million labor law verdict and a $22 million recovery for a pedestrian with a traumatic brain injury.
Medical malpractice is a genuine focus here, not an afterthought. The team has handled birth injury, failure to diagnose, and post-surgical negligence claims alongside vehicle and premises cases.
In addition to the Wall Street headquarters, satellite offices serve the Bronx and Brooklyn. Consultations cost nothing and fees come only from a recovery.
Second-generation attorney Michele S. Mirman leads this female-led practice, which has served accident victims since 1977 and recovered $1 billion for them. She is a past president of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association.
Verdicts include $15.2 million for a Queens construction worker struck by a falling steel beam and $11 million against the city over a roadway design failure. Combined experience across the partners exceeds 200 years.
Lawyers here will meet you at home, at work, or in the hospital when travel is not realistic.
Mark D. Shirian founded this Midtown practice in 2016 and still handles files himself, with attorney Shawn D. Shirian sharing the work. No case managers sit between the client and the lawyer.
Cases cover crashes, premises liability, Labor Law claims, medical malpractice, and employment discrimination across all five boroughs and into Nassau and Westchester.
Workers' compensation is the anchor of Munawar Law Group's practice. Attorneys Adnan Munawar, Ken Yilmaz, and Garris Williams guide injured employees through C-3 filings, independent medical exams, and board hearings.
The firm also takes construction, vehicle, and product liability claims for clients across New York City and Long Island. Phones are staffed around the clock.
Philip Schlesinger, Vincent Apicella, and Marni Schlesinger have represented Bronx accident victims for more than 45 years from their Washington Heights office.
Beyond crashes and falls, the practice takes civil rights matters most injury firms decline, including false arrest and police misconduct. Sanitation workers and union members are a longstanding client base.
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Partners Matthew Sakkas, Adam Cahn, and Mitchel Weiss personally handle each file, backed by 95-plus years of combined experience and more than $700 million won.
Results include $19.5 million for brain damage after surgery and $14.3 million in a truck accident claim. Staff speak five languages, and offices serve the tri-state area from Manhattan, Garden City, Elizabeth, and Stamford.
Serving injury victims since 1981, Fellows Hymowitz Rice works out of Rockland County with additional offices in the Bronx, White Plains, and Manhattan.
Birth injury and municipal liability claims are a strength, including an $8.36 million settlement over ice on a Queens expressway. First responders and military personnel get reduced retainer fees.
Jaroslawicz & Jaros has handled injury claims from lower Manhattan since 1980 and recovered more than $1 billion in damages.
Attorney Abraham Jaros gives clients his cell number and answers it after hours. The firm also arranges free transportation to medical appointments for clients too hurt to travel.
Michael E. Greenspan leads a multi-generational practice built on Westchester referrals, with offices in White Plains, Yonkers, the Bronx, and New City.
Alongside injury claims, the firm defends traffic tickets and DWI charges, which is unusual for the field. Free consultations run 24/7 and there is no fee unless the firm wins.