Millions Recovered in New York Injury Cases Over 35 Years

New York personal injury litigation is not a form letter and a demand. It is a rigorous sequence of legal steps, each one building toward a number that reflects what your injury is actually worth — not what an insurance carrier hopes you will accept.

I represent people injured in severe construction accidents, car crashes, slip and falls, and premises liability incidents across New York. My job starts at the first intake conversation. It ends at a settlement that reflects full case value or, when necessary, a jury verdict.

Here is what that means in practice: every file I open gets prepared as if it will go to trial. That standard does not activate after settlement fails. It is the baseline. Insurance defense attorneys evaluate opposing counsel before they evaluate the claim. When they know the attorney sitting across the table has a 35-year jury verdict history in New York courts, that assessment changes — and so does the settlement number.

The evidentiary file you assemble in the first four weeks sets the ceiling on what the case is worth. I have seen this firsthand across decades of New York personal injury practice.

Here is what I mean. Early in my career, I took over a car accident case from a client who had been waiting six months. The prior attorney had sent a basic demand letter, but nothing else had been done. There was no accident reconstruction. No photographs of the scene were secured. No evidence preservation letters were sent to the defendants. Two critical witnesses the client had identified on the day of the accident were now unreachable.

That case was winnable. The liability was clear: a driver ran a red light at an intersection in the Bronx and struck my client’s vehicle at high speed. My client suffered a herniated disc at L4-L5, and the surgery was thoroughly documented. But the evidentiary foundation had been allowed to erode.

I rebuilt what I could. I subpoenaed the intersection’s camera footage, but there is typically a strict window of thirty days before municipal or commercial security footage is overwritten, and we were already past it. I obtained the police report, the EMS records, and the hospital records, and I retained an orthopedic expert. We went to trial.

We won. But the verdict was lower than it should have been. The missing camera footage would have made the liability argument absolutely airtight. Instead, we had to build the case on what remained.

That case stayed with me. It is exactly why I build the evidentiary record from the very first day of representation — not from the day a settlement offer proves insufficient.

In New York, the statute of limitations for most personal injury negligence claims is three years from the date of injury. That sounds like a long runway, but it is not. Evidence degrades. Witnesses move. Security footage gets overwritten in thirty days or less. The first month is when the case is either preserved or compromised.

You speak directly with David Shakarchi when you call this firm. Not a paralegal. Not an intake coordinator. Not a first-year associate who will hand the file to a senior partner three months from now.

This is a boutique litigation firm. Your file is my direct responsibility from the moment we speak.

That personalized access matters at the insurance carrier level, too. Carriers actively track which attorneys actually try cases. When a file comes in from an attorney with a verified 35-year jury verdict record, the adjuster’s calculus shifts immediately. That difference has real dollar value — often realized in the settlement phase, before the case ever reaches a courtroom.

The very first step is a direct, confidential conversation with the attorney who will handle your case. Call 888-414-6685 or email info@lawpracticeusa.com. The office is located at 1 W. 34th Street, Room 601, New York, NY 10001 — exactly one block from Penn Station. Tell us what happened. We will tell you exactly what your case involves and what must happen next to protect your rights.