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Catastrophic injury.
Serious advocacy.

We represent people seriously injured by negligence, and families who have lost someone, in New York City, Long Island, and across the state. Nursing home abuse, medical malpractice, construction accidents, and wrongful death are cases that need to be prepared for trial from the first day.

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$250M+*
Recovered for injured New Yorkers and families (firm-reported)
2016–2026
Super Lawyers selections, Brett R. Leitner
2d Cir.
Federal appellate work on nursing home immunity
20 venues
Nassau, Suffolk, Queens, Kings, Bronx, New York, Richmond, Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Orange, Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan, Albany, Onondaga, Monroe, and Erie Counties · EDNY · SDNY
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Why Leitner Warywoda

Not a volume practice. By design.

We are selective about the cases we accept and thorough in how we prepare them. When the stakes are high, the outcome depends on the people doing the work.

01

Trial-ready from intake

Every case is built for trial from the start, not after mediation fails. Disciplined, evidence-driven preparation led by senior attorneys is what moves insurers who refuse fair compensation.

02

Personal, not industrial

Direct attorney oversight from intake through resolution. You will not be handed off to a settlement mill or reduced to a case number on a spreadsheet.

03

Local, with statewide reach

We litigate routinely in Nassau, Suffolk, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Manhattan, and in the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York. Knowing these courts moves cases efficiently.

Nursing home accountability

When nursing homes claimed immunity, we took the fight to the federal appeals court.

Brett Leitner served as amicus counsel in Solomon v. St. Joseph Hospital, 62 F.4th 54 (2d Cir. 2023), and wrote the briefs as lead counsel in Rivera-Zayas v. Our Lady of Consolation, two Second Circuit appeals on whether nursing homes could avoid state-court lawsuits over COVID-era care. That same depth goes into every neglect case we take on.

Nursing home abuse & neglect
Results

Recent recoveries.

All results
$7.89M
Verdict · Civil rights

Municipal liability and civil rights case arising from a death, tried in the Eastern District of New York.

$6.915M
Settlement · Construction accident

Labor Law construction accident.

$3.3M
Settlement during trial · Construction accident

Labor Law construction accident.

$2.25M
Settlement during trial · Vehicle accident

New York City electric bicycle rider struck by a ride-share driver.

$2.15M
Settlement · Construction accident

Fall at a construction site under Labor Law § 240(1).

$2.1M
Settlement · Civil rights

Settlement from Suffolk County in a federal police shooting case litigated in the Eastern District of New York.

$1.5M
Verdict · Vehicle accident

Brain injury to an elderly man in a motor vehicle collision.

$1.3M
Settlement during trial · Nursing home

Nursing home fall with a dislodged catheter, resulting in death, Bronx County.

$1M
Settlement during trial · Nursing home

Nursing home fall resulting in a subdural hematoma, Suffolk County.

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

Serious Injury · Wrongful Death

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