Four practice areas. One operational discipline.
The firm concentrates its work in four related fields of plaintiff-side representation, each governed by the same intake-through-trial cadence. Depth in each area is the reason for the limit.
Why these four.
Motor vehicle, commercial motor vehicle, workers' compensation, and personal injury are not four unrelated silos. They are the four practice fields that share the same evidentiary infrastructure — medical chronology, wage-loss documentation, biomechanical causation analysis, and treating-physician coordination — and the same regulatory posture toward liability carriers and self-insured employers. A firm that concentrates in these four areas gains compounding depth: an investigation for a livery accident produces the same evidence packet whether the coverage source is a personal auto policy, a commercial fleet policy, or a workers' compensation carrier because the plaintiff was operating in the course of employment.
That compounding is why the firm declines matters outside these fields. Estate work, matrimonial matters, criminal defense, and business litigation are referred out. The firm does not dabble in adjacent practice.
Motor vehicle accidents.
New York is a no-fault jurisdiction under Article 51 of the Insurance Law. That regime governs the recovery of basic economic loss (medical treatment, lost wages, and household services up to $50,000 in aggregate per person). Recovery beyond basic economic loss requires satisfaction of the serious-injury threshold under Insurance Law §5102(d). The firm's motor vehicle practice is organized around that threshold analysis from the first client conference forward — because a file that will not meet threshold requires a different litigation posture than one that will.
Read the full motor vehicle practice →Commercial motor vehicle collisions.
Tractor-trailer, box truck, delivery fleet, taxi and livery, ride-share, and municipal-vehicle collisions differ from ordinary passenger-vehicle files in three material respects: the policy limits are typically higher (federally-mandated minimum of $750,000 for interstate motor carriers under 49 CFR §387.9), the regulatory record is federally-preserved (hours-of-service logs, driver qualification files, event-data-recorder outputs), and the vicarious liability doctrine reaches the corporate motor carrier as well as the individual operator. Preservation letters must issue immediately; the FMCSA record-retention windows are short.
Read the full commercial motor vehicle practice →Workers' compensation.
A workers' compensation claim in New York is a no-fault administrative proceeding before the Workers' Compensation Board rather than a jury trial. Recovery categories are defined by statute: wage-replacement indemnity, causally-related medical treatment, and scheduled or non-scheduled loss-of-use awards. A significant portion of the firm's comp practice concludes in a Section 32 lump-sum settlement, which forecloses future benefits in exchange for a present recovery. Where a workplace injury is caused by a third party — a general contractor at a construction site, the driver of a delivery vehicle striking a warehouse worker — the firm additionally files a paired third-party civil action.
Read the full workers' compensation practice →Personal injury.
General personal injury representation covers premises-liability matters (slip-and-fall, negligent security, inadequate lighting, defective staircase), dog bite and animal attack (strict-liability elements under New York vicious-propensity doctrine), medical malpractice matters that survive an initial merit screening, wrongful death actions under EPTL §5-4.1, and catastrophic-injury matters requiring life-care planner engagement. Each category is worked with the same evidentiary discipline as a motor vehicle file — because each is ultimately negotiated with a liability carrier that reserves the same way.
Read the full personal injury practice →