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From Left: Brielle Goldfaden, Veronica Sewnarine, Kathleen Kettles, Nicole Gill, and Paula Greco.
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As Wingate, Russotti, Shapiro & Halperin, LLP, enters its 25th year of practice, the firm has assembled a team of personal injury and medical malpractice lawyers who rank among the best in New York State for representing plaintiffs.
�Not only do our attorneys have extensive experience in personal injury litigation, but they are also well versed in the courtroom, meaning we can expertly prepare and try the most complicated of cases,� observes partner and co-founder Philip Russotti. �Simply put, our clients receive the best representation from experienced litigators with exceptional judgment.�
Among these litigators are five attorneys who were recognized this year as New York Women Leaders in the Law: Kathleen Kettles, Paula Greco, Nicole Gill, Brielle Goldfaden, and Veronica Sewnarine.
A former registered professional nurse, Ms. Kathy Kettles brings more than 25 years of medical and legal experience to her practice, in which she concentrates exclusively on medical malpractice and products liability cases. Her results comprise millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements for her clients; and in 2015, she has already secured a settlement of more than $12 million in a case involving a baby who was brain damaged at birth.
�Medical malpractice cases require the ability to understand complex medical issues and causation problems, and Kathy, with her combined medical and legal expertise, is one of the best there is at handling these issues,� Russotti notes.
Like Kettles, Mrs. Paula Greco has also been handling complicated plaintiffs’ personal injury litigation for more than 25 years. In her practice she focuses on premises liability and automobile accident cases, and her many notable results include a $1.5 million recovery in a premises accident case involving an elevator-related injury.
�Paula has been with us since we started the firm in 1990, and she is excellent at conducting depositions in these complicated cases,� Russotti says. �She is tough as nails and relentless.�
Ms. Nicole Gill, who has 14 years of legal experience, ranks among the city’s top trial attorneys, with the unique advantage of having served as a defense attorney for the New York City Law Department’s Corporation Counsel prior to joining the firm. In one of her most recent trials, Gill obtained a $1.2 million verdict in a hotly contested vehicle accident case, despite the fact that the firm’s client, a pedestrian, had difficulty explaining how she got struck.
Since joining the firm in 2012, Mrs. Brielle Goldfaden has distinguished herself in a number of challenging general negligence cases. Already, she has achieved multiple six-figure results, including a $750,000 settlement at trial in a case involving a three-car accident where the client, a doctor, made a terrific recovery and returned to work. These recoveries have led to her inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, the National Trial Lawyers’ �Top 40 Under 40� list, and the Super Lawyers’ �Rising Stars� recognition.
Mrs. Veronica Sewnarine has been with the firm since 2013, and during that time she has assisted in all phases of medical malpractice litigation, from inception through trial. Beyond her legal practice, she is actively involved in a number of women’s professional organizations�such as the New York Women’s Bar Association, the Queens County Women’s Bar Association, and the Asian American Bar Association of New York�where she seeks to advance the status of women within the profession.
�These five women epitomize the caliber of attorney you would expect to find at this firm,� Russotti says. �Their dedication to clients and the profession is illustrated in the high quality of their work, which is all directed toward one goal�obtaining the best result for each and every victim of negligence they represent.