About Gustavo Alzugaray
Gustavo Alzugaray joined Jacoby & Meyers in 2005. After law school he worked as a criminal defense attorney at the Legal Aid Society, Criminal Division, Kings County, handling misdemeanor and minor felony cases. He then transitioned to personal injury litigation. He manages the firm's Bronx County office and handles personal injury cases including automobile accidents, premises liability, and dog bite cases.
He tries cases, handles mediations, and arbitrations. In 2019 he became the Director of the Diversity Committee at the New York State Trial Lawyers Association. He has completed continuing education at the National Institute of Trial Advocacy in Chicago, Trial Lawyers College in New York, and Trial Advocacy courses in Philadelphia and South Carolina.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Jacoby & Meyers, LLP
These results are credited to Jacoby & Meyers, LLP. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Philadelphia jury awarded Donna Kendall $6.3 million in compensatory damages and $28 million in punitive damages after finding that Wyeth's Prempro hormone-replacement drug caused her breast cancer and the double mastectomy that followed; the Pennsylvania Superior Court restored the full punitive award in 2012 after the trial judge had cut it to $1 million.
A Ulster County jury returned a $31 million verdict, the largest car-crash award in the county's history, for Kelly Burley, who developed cauda equina syndrome and permanent wheelchair dependence after a moving truck rear-ended her vehicle on the Mid-Hudson Bridge in 2019.
A Manhattan jury awarded $6.45 million to a 53-year-old avid salsa dancer who slipped on fish guts left on a Broadway sidewalk outside the Citarella gourmet grocery, dislocated her knee, tore three ligaments, and required at least 12 surgeries over 11 years.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
