
Law Office of Cohen & Jaffe works from Marcus Avenue in New Hyde Park, with a second office in Jackson Heights, and names five attorneys.
Car accident lawyers handling rear-end and intersection collisions, uninsured and underinsured motorist claims, hit and run, and crashes involving a rideshare or a company vehicle. Every firm is checked for active licensure, clean disciplinary history and verified case results. Rankings are published per city, because a firm is worth comparing against the firms someone could actually hire instead of it. So far that means 18 cities.
A firm is worth comparing against the firms somebody could hire instead of it, so every ranking is a city and a practice. Pick the city.

Law Office of Cohen & Jaffe works from Marcus Avenue in New Hyde Park, with a second office in Jackson Heights, and names five attorneys.

Blakeley Car Accident & Personal Injury Lawyers works from Southwest Seventh Street in Miami, with a second office in Miami Gardens, and names six attorneys.

Raphaelson & Levine Law Firm works from Pennsylvania Plaza in Manhattan, with offices in Woodbury and Flushing, and names 15 attorneys.

Block O’Toole & Murphy works from Pennsylvania Plaza in Manhattan and names 21 attorneys.

Cellino Law Injury Attorneys works from ten offices across New York, Connecticut and New Jersey, and names 37 attorneys.
Almost every firm in this practice area says the same four things on its home page, and none of the four separates a good car accident lawyer from a bad one. What separates them is how they handle three specific moments, and all three happen in the first month, usually before anybody has decided whether to hire a lawyer at all.
An adjuster can offer to settle within days, and the offer is real money at a moment when the medical picture is not finished. A soft tissue injury that turns into a herniated disc, a concussion that is diagnosed weeks later, a shoulder that needs surgery after physiotherapy fails: none of that is known yet. A settlement signs away the claim for all of it.
What to listen for is not whether a firm will "fight for you". It is whether it will say, in plain terms, that it does not value a case until treatment has plateaued, and what it does for a client who cannot pay rent while waiting.
When the other driver has no insurance, or has the state minimum against an injury worth many times that, the money comes from the uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage on your own policy. It is a claim against your own insurer, it is governed by the policy rather than by the crash, and it usually has its own notice deadline written into that policy, shorter than the one for suing the driver.
This is the single most common thing a client never hears about, and it is worth asking about by name at the first call. A firm that handles it routinely will tell you what your own declarations page needs to say; one that does not will change the subject back to the other driver.
Most states reduce what you recover by the share of fault assigned to you, and in several a large enough share bars recovery entirely. That share is not decided by the police report, which is an officer's opinion and is often not admissible at trial. It is argued from the physical evidence, the vehicle data recorder, the scene photographs and the witnesses, and most of that evidence degrades or disappears within weeks.
Ask what the firm does in the first fortnight. A specific answer names things: a spoliation letter so the other vehicle is not repaired or scrapped, a request for the event data recorder download, canvassing for cameras on the businesses facing the intersection.
We list firms whether they ask us to or not, and everything on a profile is read from the outside: the firm's own site, its Google listings, its state's attorney register. That means we get things wrong, and the person who can see it is the firm. Claiming your profile is free, and so is every correction. The annual listing adds a dofollow link to your site, your own logo on your profile and the client reviews you want quoted. Neither moves a single point of the score.