Plaintiff-side advocacy, prepared as if every file will be tried.
A boutique Upper East Side practice representing individuals injured on the road, on the job, and on the premises of others. Every matter is worked to a settlement posture the defense will meet — or a trial posture they will not.
What a Linder Law file looks like on the defense's desk.
Defense adjusters and their retained counsel decide reserves within the first sixty days of notice. What they see in that window sets the case value for the balance of its lifecycle. The Linder Law Group builds every file — MVA, CMVA, comp, PI — so that the initial file review reads like a case that will not be inexpensively resolved.
That means: complete SF-1002 no-fault filings within seven days of retention, statutory §5104 threshold analysis on the intake sheet, contemporaneous medical chronology assembled from the first records request forward, and a demand package indexed to specific policy limits and prior verdicts. The file is trial-ready before the demand is written.
Four practice areas, one operational discipline.
Motor Vehicle Accidents
New York no-fault regime, PIP recovery, serious-injury threshold under Insurance Law §5102(d), UM/UIM claims, and third-party liability across the five boroughs and Long Island.
Read the practice →Commercial Motor Vehicle
Tractor-trailer, delivery fleet, and livery collisions. FMCSA regulatory violations, hours-of-service records, ECM downloads, driver qualification files, and commercial policy stacks.
Read the practice →Workers' Compensation
WCB-filed claims, scheduled and non-scheduled loss of use awards, Section 32 lump-sum resolutions, IME defense, and paired third-party workplace-injury actions.
Read the practice →Personal Injury
Premises liability, slip-and-fall, dog bite, medical malpractice screening, wrongful death, and catastrophic injury with life-care planner coordination.
Read the practice →Eight steps from intake to resolution.
- I
Intake & conflict clearance
Same-day statement of facts, conflict check against every named party and carrier, statute of limitations calendared to the day.
- II
Engagement & document cascade
Retainer, HIPAA authorizations, no-fault application (NF-2 / SF-1002), lien notices, and preservation letters issued from a templated cascade.
- III
Investigation
Scene photography, police report retrieval, witness canvass, event-data-recorder preservation demand, surveillance canvassing where relevant.
- IV
Medical records & chronology
Full records production tracked to Bates-numbered index. Chronology assembled contemporaneously — never at the end of the file.
- V
Damages package
Special damages spreadsheet, wage-loss documentation, life-care planner engagement for catastrophic files, day-in-the-life production where warranted.
- VI
Demand
Indexed to policy limits and comparable NY verdicts. Written to be read by a claims committee, not just the assigned adjuster.
- VII
Negotiation
Structured settlement conferences, mediation where useful, direct-committee posture where the carrier is intransigent.
- VIII
Litigation & trial
Complaint filed the day negotiation stalls. Discovery, motion practice, and jury trial where the file requires it.
Contingency, without exception.
Every plaintiff-side matter is worked on a contingency-fee basis under 22 NYCRR Part 1215 and Judiciary Law §474-a. No client of the Linder Law Group pays a fee unless there is a recovery. Case costs are advanced by the firm and recouped only from the settlement or verdict.
Consultations are without charge. Retainer agreements are provided in writing before the attorney-client relationship is formalized. Fee schedules for medical malpractice matters conform to the sliding scale prescribed by Judiciary Law §474-a; motor vehicle and premises matters are worked at a flat one-third net of disbursements.
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