Brett R. Leitner, Esq.
Trial practice: Med Mal · Nursing Home · Labor Law · Catastrophic
I’m Brett Leitner, a New York trial attorney. My practice is built around nursing home neglect and abuse, medical malpractice, construction accidents and catastrophic injury — the cases that take real investigation and a firm willing to try them.
“When a family is told nothing can be done, that’s when we start.”
A record built in the courtroom.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Certain matters handled with co-counsel.
Arguing the law, not only the facts.
Solomon v. St. Joseph Hospital
62 F.4th 54. Whether a federal emergency statute allowed nursing homes and hospitals to move COVID-era negligence suits out of state court.
Rivera-Zayas v. Our Lady of Consolation
A companion appeal on the same question, brought on behalf of the family of a nursing home resident.
Defense-side training, plaintiff-side conviction.
A nursing home fall that a chart says never happened. A cancer found a year late. A worker who fell because nobody secured the scaffold. These cases turn on records, staffing data, experts and the willingness to put a case in front of a jury. That is the work Brett has built his practice around, in New York City and across Long Island.
He developed his trial and litigation skills at national AmLaw 100 and AmLaw 200 firms representing sophisticated corporate clients — counseling, risk management, litigation management, trial and appellate work. He then served as a senior trial attorney in the Nursing Home Litigation Unit of a nationally recognized personal injury and mass tort firm, representing victims of catastrophic accidents, medical malpractice and nursing home neglect across New York State. Having seen how institutions defend these cases, he knows where the proof is kept.
He went on to found the firm now known as Leitner Warywoda, PLLC. His work has recovered more than $200 million for clients (firm-reported) and has drawn coverage in The New York Times, the New York Law Journal, Newsweek, ABC News and CBS News — and made him a lawyer other lawyers call when a case is high-profile or hard.
Clients tend to describe the same two things: someone who prepares relentlessly, and someone who treats a family’s worst year as if it were his own.
Send us the case that needs a trial team.
We regularly take nursing home, malpractice and Labor Law referrals from firms that don’t try these cases, or don’t want to fund one. Referral fees are honored in accordance with New York’s Rules of Professional Conduct, and referring counsel stays informed throughout.
- Case evaluation within days, not weeks
- We fund the experts and the litigation costs
- You stay copied and consulted through resolution
- Coverage across NYC, Long Island and New York State