About Seth Gladstein

Seth Gladstein is a Partner at Dolt, Thompson, Shepherd, Conway & Stanton, PSC, with more than two decades of legal experience. He focuses on medical malpractice and serious personal injury cases, including birth injuries, medication errors, nursing home abuse, catastrophic injuries, and wrongful death. He began his career in New York City defending major hospitals and physicians before returning to Louisville in 2005. He founded the Gladstein Law Firm in 2011 and joined Dolt, Thompson as partner in 2025. He served as President of the Louisville Bar Association.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Dolt, Thompson, Shepherd, Conway & Stanton, PSC

These results are credited to Dolt, Thompson, Shepherd, Conway & Stanton, PSC. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$163.97 millionVerdict

A Jefferson Circuit Court jury awarded $163,973,760 to Jilianne Warner, who was left permanently quadriplegic after a GEICO-dispatched tow truck plowed into her stopped car at highway speed; the verdict was later overturned on appeal.

Jefferson Circuit Court, Louisville, KY · 2024Truck AccidentsRead the full story →

A Warren County jury awarded $27,335,667.87 after a Monarch Environmental garbage truck parked illegally on a rural Kentucky road put a 17-year-old in a coma for 57 days and left her with permanent brain damage.

Warren County Circuit Court, Kentucky · 2002Truck AccidentsRead the full story →
$18.27 millionVerdictTop 20 in Kentucky · #3

A Barren County jury awarded $18.27 million after finding that nurses at T.J. Samson Community Hospital disregarded the treating obstetrician's standing Pitocin orders during a 2007 delivery, depriving newborn Tristan Hamilton of oxygen and leaving him with spastic quadriplegia.

Barren Circuit Court, Kentucky · 2014Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$12.8 millionVerdictTop 20 in Kentucky · #5

A Christian County jury found Martinrea Hopkinsville, LLC and its crane operator responsible for the 2015 death of delivery driver Gregory Sean Engleman, crushed by a steel coil weighing more than 15,000 pounds, and awarded his family $12,802,165, reported as a record personal injury verdict for the county.

Christian Circuit Court, Kentucky · 2018Workplace InjuryRead the full story →

A federal jury in Louisville found U-Haul liable under products liability and negligence theories after a rented tow dolly and the Ford Contour on it swayed on Interstate 65 in October 2002, flipping the family Explorer and leaving Corry Burke a quadriplegic. The jury awarded about $11.6 million and put 10 percent of the fault on the driver, so $10.5 million stood. Judge Heyburn denied U-Haul's post-trial motions in June 2007.

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, Louisville · 2007Product LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Chicago-Kent College of Law (Illinois Institute of Technology)
J.D., 2001
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
Undergraduate, 1997

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of New York, admitted 2003
State Bar of Kentucky, admitted 2005
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky, admitted 2006
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Kentucky, admitted 2006
Louisville Bar Association (Past President)
American Bar Association
American Association for Justice

Awards & recognition

Kentucky Super Lawyers (multiple consecutive years, plaintiffs' medical malpractice)
Best Lawyers 2024 (plaintiff's medical malpractice)
Joseph J. Kaplan Young Leadership Award (2012)
National Trial Lawyers Top 100

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$16.95 million · Indiana Jury Awards Neurosurgeon $16.95 Million After Career-Ending Fall on a Hospital Pantry Floor
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$10 Million Verdict for Family of Christopher Short, Killed by Fatigued Marvin Keller Trucking Driver on I-64

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.