Best Personal Injury Law Firms in NYC, Ranked for 2026
If you were hurt in a crash on the BQE, fell on an icy Brooklyn sidewalk, or were injured on a Manhattan construction site, the firm you hire will shape everything that follows: the medical care you can afford, how insurers negotiate, and what you ultimately recover. These 38 came out on top under our methodology.
By the Law Firm Listings Editorial TeamPending review by a licensed New York attorney
Updated October 29, 2026
Editorial independence. Firms cannot pay to appear in or influence this ranking. Neither the score, the eligibility gates nor the tier can be bought or edited, including by a firm that manages its own profile. Sponsored placements are always labeled and never appear inside a ranked list.
How we ranked these firms
Personal injury is the most heavily advertised area of law in New York. Subway cars, taxi tops and daytime television are full of firms promising maximum compensation. That noise makes it hard to tell a genuine trial firm from a high-volume settlement mill. So advertising counts for nothing here. Each firm is scored out of 100 across five pillars, and paid search spend is excluded by design.
Professional standing (25). Who the attorneys are: clean-record depth and years since admission, checked against the state bar registry, plus disclosed malpractice insurance and bar association membership.
Verified outcomes (20). Results confirmed against court dockets, published decisions or verdict reporters. A self-reported "$1B recovered" total scores nothing.
Client experience (20). Authentic review volume and a Bayesian rating average, so a handful of five-star reviews cannot outrank hundreds at 4.8.
Digital presence and authority (25). Site performance, search authority against local peers, local presence and structured data. Paid advertising is excluded. Capped so it can lift a firm's tier but never create one.
Access and responsiveness (10). Fee transparency, free consultations, languages and availability.
A firm is scored only once every eligibility gate passes, and certification additionally requires professional standing, outcomes and client experience to reach 40 of their combined 65, which is what stops a firm with a strong website and thin results from certifying. Read the full methodology.
The best personal injury law firms in New York City
Scored under LFL Certified Methodology v2.0. A score is a percentage of what we could assess for that firm, and each profile prints its own coverage beside it.
★★★★★4.9539 reviewsLaw Office Of Cohen & Jaffe · Law Office Of Cohen & Jaffe - Queens Personal Injury Lawyers
Law Office of Cohen & Jaffe works from Marcus Avenue in New Hyde Park, with a second office in Jackson Heights, and names five attorneys.
539 reviews at 4.9 across two listings. Contingency fees, a free consultation, a 24 hour line, hospital and home visits and pages in Spanish, published. It publishes 38 case results with amounts of its own and they are its figures rather than ones we confirmed.
★★★★★4.8359 reviewsGorayeb & Associates, P.C. - Los Abogados del Pueblo
Gorayeb & Associates works from William Street in the financial district, publishes in Spanish first and calls itself los abogados del pueblo. Construction injury work is the practice it leads with, and it names sixteen people, five of them as attorneys.
361 reviews at 4.8, and twenty-seven years by its domain registration, the longest in this ranking. Four bar association memberships published on its own bios, the most of any firm here. Contingency fees, a free consultation, a 24 hour line and hospital visits.
★★★★★4.8729 reviewsRaphaelson & Levine Law Firm, P.C. · Raphaelson & Levine Law Firm, P.C. · 雷沃森李文律师楼(法拉盛办公室)Raphaelson & Levine Law Firm, P.C
Raphaelson & Levine Law Firm works from Pennsylvania Plaza in Manhattan, with offices in Woodbury and Flushing, and names 15 attorneys.
729 reviews at 4.8. Contingency fees, a free consultation, a 24 hour line and pages in Spanish, published. It publishes 15 case results with amounts of its own and they are its figures rather than ones we confirmed.
Block O’Toole & Murphy works from Pennsylvania Plaza in Manhattan and names 21 attorneys.
207 reviews at 4.9. Contingency fees, a free consultation and pages in Spanish, published. It publishes 110 case results with amounts of its own and they are its figures rather than ones we confirmed.
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FeeContingency · The lawyers in our firm work on a contingency basis, so we do not collect any money unless we win your case.
★★★★★4.91,727 reviewsCellino Law Injury Attorneys · Cellino Law Injury Attorneys · Cellino Law Injury Attorneys
Cellino Law Injury Attorneys works from ten offices across New York, Connecticut and New Jersey, and names 37 attorneys.
1,727 reviews at 4.9 across nine listings. Contingency fees, a free consultation, a 24 hour line and hospital and home visits, published. It publishes 30 case results with amounts of its own and they are its figures rather than ones we confirmed.
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FeeContingency · And you won’t pay any fees unless we win.
Stillman & Stillman works from East Tremont Avenue in the Bronx and names four attorneys: Jeffrey Stillman, Robert Birnbaum, Howard Trepp and Adam Raclaw.
200 reviews at 5.0. Contingency fees, a free consultation, a 24 hour line, hospital visits and pages in Spanish, published, with thirty-five case results of its own. Its site is the second fastest of the firms added in this pass.
Mirman, Markovits & Landau works from Broadway in Manhattan and names seven attorneys.
148 reviews at 4.5. Contingency fees, a free consultation, a 24 hour line, hospital and home visits and pages in Spanish, published. It publishes 23 case results with amounts of its own and they are its figures rather than ones we confirmed.
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FeeContingency · That’s why we work on a contingency fee basis.
★★★★★4.9363 reviewsThe Law Offices of Richard M. Kenny
The Law Offices of Richard M. Kenny works from Seventh Avenue in Manhattan and publishes three attorneys with the rank beside each name: Richard M. Kenny as founding partner, James P. Lundy as partner and Sean R. Kenny as an attorney of the firm.
363 reviews at 4.9. Fifty-eight case results with amounts of its own, one of the longest such lists here. Contingency fees, a free consultation, a 24 hour line and pages in Spanish.
★★★★★4.7588 reviewsThe Law Offices of Michael S. Lamonsoff, PLLC · The Law Offices of Michael S. Lamonsoff, PLLC · The Law Offices of Michael S. Lamonsoff, PLLC
The Law Offices of Michael S. Lamonsoff works from Old Slip in Manhattan, with offices in Jamaica and Brooklyn, and names 13 attorneys.
588 reviews at 4.7 across three listings. Contingency fees, a free consultation, a 24 hour line and pages in Spanish, published. It publishes 95 case results with amounts of its own and they are its figures rather than ones we confirmed.
Frekhtman & Associates works from six offices across New York, among them Brooklyn, Manhattan and Forest Hills, and names five attorneys.
330 reviews at 4.79 across six listings. Contingency fees, a free consultation, a 24 hour line and hospital and home visits, published. It publishes 26 case results with amounts of its own and they are its figures rather than ones we confirmed.
★★★★★4.81,872 reviewsParker Waichman LLP - Personal Injury Accident Attorneys · Parker Waichman LLP - Personal Injury Accident Attorneys · Parker Waichman LLP - Personal Injury Accident Attorneys
Parker Waichman works from seven offices across New York, New Jersey and Florida, and names 21 attorneys.
1,872 reviews at 4.84 across seven listings. Contingency fees, a free consultation, a 24 hour line and pages in Spanish, published. It publishes ten case results with amounts of its own and they are its figures rather than ones we confirmed.
★★★★★4.8376 reviewsCohen & Cohen Car Accident & Personal Injury Lawyers, P.C.
Cohen & Cohen works from Queens Boulevard in Forest Hills and names nine people on its own attorney pages without saying what any of them does there.
261 reviews at 4.8. Eighteen case results with amounts of its own. Its largest contentful paint on mobile is 10.8 seconds, which is what pillar D measures.
★★★★★4.9492 reviewsRosenberg & Rodriguez Personal Injury Lawyers - Freeport · Rosenberg & Rodriguez Personal Injury Lawyers - Manhattan · Rosenberg and Rodriguez Personal Injury Lawyers – Bronx Injury and Accident Lawyers
Rosenberg & Rodriguez gives Fulton Street in Manhattan as the firm's address and holds five verified offices, in Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Forest Hills and Freeport. It publishes ten people and prints no role beside any of them.
490 reviews across those five listings. It publishes a page explaining how a contingency fee works, which is the fee statement pillar B asks for and which most firms here do not have, along with twenty-five case results of its own.
Silberstein & Miklos works from six offices across New York, among them Garden City, Brooklyn and Forest Hills, and names twelve attorneys.
584 reviews at 4.9 across six listings. Contingency fees, a free consultation, a 24 hour line, hospital and home visits and pages in Spanish, published. It publishes three case results with amounts of its own and they are its figures rather than ones we confirmed.
★★★★★5.0205 reviewsThe Law Offices of Eric Richman
The Law Offices of Eric Richman works from Lexington Avenue and publishes five of the things a client actually asks for: contingency fees, a free consultation, a 24 hour line, hospital visits and pages in Spanish. It publishes no roster we could read, so nothing on the site names an attorney in the form G5 counts.
205 reviews at 5.0, and twenty-three years by its domain registration. Twenty-one case results with amounts of its own.
★★★★★4.8573 reviewsThe Rothenberg Law Firm Accident And Injury Lawyers · The Rothenberg Law Firm · The Rothenberg Law Firm Accident And Injury Lawyers
The Rothenberg Law Firm is a personal injury practice with four offices: Manhattan, Philadelphia, and Lakewood and Hackensack in New Jersey.
The firm states that its attorneys work on a contingency fee basis, so a client pays nothing unless the case is won, and that a consultation is available at no charge.
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FeeContingency · Our personal injury attorneys work on a contingency fee basis, which means that you do not pay anything unless we win your case.
★★★★★4.933 reviewsFriedman, Levy, Goldfarb, Green & Bagley, P.C.
Friedman, Levy, Goldfarb, Green & Bagley works from Lexington Avenue in Manhattan and names six attorneys.
33 reviews at 4.9. Contingency fees, a free consultation, a 24 hour line and pages in Spanish, published. It publishes four case results with amounts of its own and they are its figures rather than ones we confirmed.
Hecht, Kleeger & Damashek works from West 44th Street in Manhattan and names eight attorneys.
130 reviews at 4.8. Contingency fees, a free consultation, a 24 hour line and pages in Spanish, published. It publishes 18 case results with amounts of its own and they are its figures rather than ones we confirmed.
Hill & Moin works from Broadway in Manhattan and names twelve attorneys.
183 reviews at 5.0. Contingency fees, a free consultation, a 24 hour line, hospital and home visits and pages in Spanish, published. It publishes 48 case results with amounts of its own and they are its figures rather than ones we confirmed.
★★★★★4.9594 reviewsDavidoff Law Personal Injury Lawyers - Manhattan New York Office · Queens Personal Injury Lawyer Ruben Davidoff
Davidoff Law works from East 42nd Street in Manhattan, with a second office in Forest Hills, and names eight attorneys.
594 reviews at 4.88 across five listings. Contingency fees, a free consultation, a 24 hour line and pages in Spanish, published. It publishes 32 case results with amounts of its own and they are its figures rather than ones we confirmed.
Macaluso & Fafinski works from Fordham Plaza in the Bronx and names four attorneys on its own bios: Joseph G. Macaluso, Donna Fafinski, Ernest N. Reece and Paul J. Campson. Twenty years by its domain registration.
229 reviews at 4.9. Fifteen case results with amounts of its own, three bar association memberships published on those bios, and pages in Spanish. Its largest contentful paint on mobile is 9.6 seconds, which is what pillar D measures.
★★★★★4.8262 reviewsRosenbaum Meier Personal Injury Lawyers · Rosenbaum Meier Personal Injury Lawyers Brooklyn · Rosenbaum Meier
Rosenbaum Meier Personal Injury Lawyers is a New York City personal injury firm with offices in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx.
The firm states that consultations are free and that it works on a contingency fee basis, with no attorney's fees owed unless and until it recovers compensation. It publishes a 24-hour intake line and service in English and Spanish.
★★★★★4.8360 reviewsAjlouny Injury Law · Ajlouny Injury Law · Ajlouny Injury Law
Ajlouny Injury Law works from Court Street in downtown Brooklyn and keeps three further offices, in Garden City, on lower Broadway and in Flushing. It names Paul Ajlouny as an attorney, with Michael Levitz beside him.
360 reviews across the four listings, 276 of them in Brooklyn. Contingency fees, a free consultation, a 24 hour line and hospital visits, published, along with twenty-nine case results of its own. Its site scores 97 out of 100 on mobile, the highest of the new entries after Seitelman.
Chopra & Nocerino Injury & Accident Attorneys works from Quentin Roosevelt Boulevard in Garden City and names eight attorneys.
176 reviews at 4.8. A free consultation and pages in Spanish, published. It publishes 47 case results with amounts of its own and they are its figures rather than ones we confirmed. It publishes nothing about the rate or the retainer.
Hach & Rose works from Madison Avenue and publishes twenty-three attorneys with a rank beside every name, partners, of counsel and associates among them. That is the largest attorney roster in this ranking, and this cohort carried the firm's other domain, hachroselaw.com, as unresolved until this pass.
277 reviews at 4.8. It publishes 123 case results with amounts of its own, the longest such list in the directory, and seven bar association memberships on its bios. A free consultation, published, and no contingency statement or Spanish pages we could read.
Yakov Mushiyev & Associates works from Cross Island Plaza in Rosedale and publishes its people with their jobs beside them: Yakov Mushiyev and Gabriel Borokhov as attorneys, Eduard Tamma as a trial attorney, and its paralegals named as paralegals.
590 reviews at 5.0. It is one of the few firms in this market that publishes a fee statement as well as a contingency promise, and it offers hospital visits and pages in Spanish. Its largest contentful paint on mobile is 11.5 seconds, among the slowest here.
Morelli Law Firm works from Third Avenue and names nine people, from Benedict P. Morelli to Sara A. Mahoney, with no role beside any of them. Twenty-seven years by its domain registration, and five bar association memberships published on its own bios, the most of any firm in this pass.
207 reviews at 4.5, the lowest rating of the firms added here. Forty-one case results with amounts of its own. Its home page leads with a claim about billions recovered, which is its own figure and not one we checked, and its largest contentful paint on mobile is 20.6 seconds.
Sakkas, Cahn & Weiss works from East 42nd Street in Manhattan and names three attorneys.
96 reviews at 5.0. Contingency fees, a free consultation, a 24 hour line and pages in Spanish, published. It publishes 119 case results with amounts of its own and they are its figures rather than ones we confirmed.
Carrion Accident & Injury Attorneys works from 37th Avenue in Jackson Heights and is the only firm in this ranking that prints a role beside every name it publishes: five attorneys, a chief operating officer who is a registered nurse, and thirty-two case managers, intake specialists, paralegals and receptionists, with one more person named and no role beside them. A reader can see who practises law and who does not without asking anybody.
710 reviews at 5.0. Contingency fees, a free consultation, a 24 hour line and pages in Spanish, published. Its site is one of two here that passes Core Web Vitals, at 95 out of 100 on mobile.
★★★★4.3200 reviewsStephen Bilkis & Associates, PLLC · Stephen Bilkis & Associates, PLLC · Stephen Bilkis & Associates, PLLC
Stephen Bilkis & Associates works from five offices in the New York area, including Manhattan, Brooklyn, Kew Gardens, Baldwin and Bay Shore.
Rather than describing a single fee model, the firm states that it takes some cases with no upfront fee, which is how its fee arrangement is recorded here. It publishes a consultation at no charge and a 24-hour intake line.
Alex Yadgarov & Associates works from Cross Island Plaza in Rosedale, at the Queens edge of the Nassau County line, and names Alex Yadgarov, Natalia Derin and Robert P. Macchia on its site without saying what any of them does there.
936 reviews at 4.9. Contingency fees, a free consultation, a 24 hour line, hospital visits and pages in Spanish, published. It publishes no case results we could read, and its largest contentful paint on mobile is 13.4 seconds.
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FeeContingency · We work on a contingency basis, which means that there are no fees involved, unless we win the case for you.
GLK Law works from Broadway in Manhattan, with a second office in Englewood, and names five attorneys.
106 reviews at 4.9. A free consultation and pages in Spanish, published. It publishes seven case results with amounts of its own and they are its figures rather than ones we confirmed. It publishes nothing about the rate or the retainer.
★★★★★4.9416 reviewsMark E. Seitelman Law Offices - Accident & Injury Attorneys
Mark E. Seitelman Law Offices works from 111 Broadway in lower Manhattan and names sixteen people, from Mark Seitelman himself to the firm's investigator and the person who answers its phones, each on their own page and none with a role we could read from it.
272 reviews at 4.9. Sixty-two case results with amounts of its own, one of the longest such lists here, and a site that scores 98 out of 100 on mobile and passes Core Web Vitals, the fastest of the new entries.
★★★★★5.0721 reviewsElliot Ifraimoff & Associates, PC
Elliot Ifraimoff & Associates works from Queens Boulevard in Forest Hills and lists eight attorneys under Our Team on its about page, each with Esq. after the name and none with a role beside it.
718 reviews at 5.0, and nineteen years by its domain registration, the second longest of the new entries. Fifteen case results with amounts of its own, which are its figures and not ones we confirmed.
★★★★4.3627 reviewsNapoli Shkolnik PLLC · Napoli Shkolnik PLLC · Napoli Shkolnik PLLC
Napoli Shkolnik works from Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, with offices in Melville and Coconut Grove, and names 30 attorneys.
627 reviews at 4.35 across three listings. A free consultation, a 24 hour line and pages in Spanish, published. It publishes four case results with amounts of its own and they are its figures rather than ones we confirmed. It publishes nothing about the rate or the retainer.
De Caro & Kaplen works from East 45th Street and practises one thing: traumatic brain injury. It names two attorneys, Shana De Caro and Michael V. Kaplen, and keeps a second Manhattan office at United Nations Plaza.
202 reviews at 4.9, and twenty-eight years by its domain registration, the longest of the firms added in this pass. Contingency fees, a free consultation and a 24 hour line, published, along with nineteen case results of its own.
★★★★★5.0221 reviewsThe Case Handler - Adam Handler, Esq.
The Case Handler works from Broadway opposite City Hall and is one of the few firms in this ranking that says who does what: Adam Handler and Matthew Goodstein as attorneys, and four paralegals named as paralegals.
220 reviews at 5.0. It publishes 151 case results with amounts of its own, the longest such list in this market after Hach & Rose, and they are its figures rather than ones we confirmed. Its home page takes more than three minutes to paint its largest element on mobile, which is the slowest reading in the directory by a wide margin.
★★★★★4.9735 reviewsThe Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C. · The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.
The Perecman Firm is a New York City personal injury practice with offices in Manhattan and Corona, Queens.
The firm states that it works on a contingency fee basis, with nothing to pay upfront and payment only if the case is won. It publishes a free case review, a 24-hour intake line and service in English and Spanish.
What to look for in a New York personal injury firm
Rankings are a starting point. The right firm for a trucking case on the Cross Bronx Expressway is not the right firm for a misdiagnosis at a Manhattan hospital. As you narrow the list, weigh five things.
A trial record, not just a settlement history
Insurance carriers keep lists of which firms actually pick juries. They pay more, sooner, to the ones that do. Ask any firm for its verdicts in the past three years, in your own county.
Independent recognition
Peer-reviewed recognition from other attorneys is far harder to buy than a billboard. Certification here requires it, but also ask about appellate decisions the firm has won; they shape the law for every case that follows.
Direct access to a senior attorney
In high-volume firms, your "lawyer" may be a case manager you never meet. Ask, before signing, who will handle your file, who will return your calls and how quickly.
A fee agreement you understand
New York caps most PI fees at one-third, and medical malpractice fees follow a statutory sliding scale. The variable is expenses: whether experts, depositions and filing fees are deducted before or after the fee is calculated can change your net recovery by tens of thousands of dollars.
Focus that matches your injury
A birth-injury case needs obstetric experts and a seven-figure case budget. A rideshare collision needs someone fluent in New York's no-fault and Serious Injury Threshold rules. Match the firm's verified focus to your facts.
"The best firms turn down more cases than they take. If a firm says yes before asking about your medical records, be cautious." A New York plaintiff's attorney interviewed for this ranking
New York personal injury law: the basics
Statute of limitations. Three years from the date of injury for most negligence claims (CPLR §214), two years and six months for medical malpractice (CPLR §214-a), and two years for wrongful death, measured from the date of death.
Claims against the government. Injured by a city bus, in a NYCHA building or on a city sidewalk? You must serve a Notice of Claim within 90 days and file suit within one year and 90 days. This is the single most common reason valid New York cases are lost.
Comparative negligence. New York follows pure comparative negligence: you can recover even if you were mostly at fault, with your award reduced by your percentage of responsibility.
No-fault and the Serious Injury Threshold. Motor vehicle injuries are first paid through no-fault insurance (up to $50,000 in basic economic loss). To sue for pain and suffering, you must show a "serious injury" as defined by Insurance Law §5102(d), which is one reason experienced counsel matters in car cases.
The Scaffold Law. Labor Law §240(1) imposes absolute liability on owners and contractors for gravity-related construction injuries, a uniquely powerful tool for New York construction workers.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a personal injury lawyer cost in New York?
Almost all New York PI firms work on contingency, typically 33⅓% of the recovery. Medical malpractice fees follow a statutory sliding scale (30% of the first $250,000 down to 10% above $1.25 million). You pay nothing up front and nothing if you don't recover.
How long do I have to file a personal injury lawsuit in New York?
Generally three years from the injury, but only 2½ years for medical malpractice and just 90 days to serve a Notice of Claim against New York City, the MTA or NYCHA. Contact a firm as early as possible.
What is the average personal injury settlement in NYC?
There is no meaningful "average". Outcomes range from a few thousand dollars for soft-tissue car injuries to eight-figure verdicts for catastrophic cases. Every firm on this list offers a free evaluation that will give you a realistic range for your facts.
Can I switch personal injury lawyers mid-case?
Yes. In New York, your new firm and old firm split the single contingency fee based on work performed; it costs you nothing extra. Several firms on this list regularly take over cases from other attorneys.
Do I need a lawyer for a minor car accident?
If your injuries resolved within a few weeks and no-fault covered your bills, possibly not. If you have ongoing treatment, missed work or a possible "serious injury," a free consultation is worth 30 minutes of your time.
How were these firms selected?
Our editorial team reviewed 84 New York City personal injury firms against our published methodology: trial record (35%), verified results (25%), client experience (25%) and peer recognition (15%). Firms cannot pay for placement.
This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Case results described are specific to their facts and do not guarantee similar outcomes. Firm information verified as of September 2026; please confirm details directly with each firm.