About Michael Feldman

Michael S. Feldman is a Partner in the firm's Litigation Department, joining Jacoby & Meyers in 1992. He serves as Director of the Truck Accident Trial Group and is Dean of the New York State Trial Lawyers Institute. He sits on the Board of Directors of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and is a member of the American Association of Justice and the Association of Plaintiff's Interstate Trucking Lawyers. He has lectured on nursing home litigation, trucking litigation, and trial advocacy at numerous bar associations and colleges.

He has been named a Top 100 Lawyer in New York by National Trial Lawyers and is a certified life member of both the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. He has been named a SuperLawyer by Reuters and designated Top Lawyer in the New York Metropolitan Area by the American Registry. He also serves as a Veterans Administration Arbitrator.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$5.7 millionVerdict

A Kings County jury awarded $5.7 million after an unattended Jofaz Transportation school bus rolled down Nostrand Avenue and killed a young girl in Crown Heights, with the jury finding the bus company and its driver 40 percent liable.

Kings County Supreme Court, NY · 2016Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

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

Practice areas

Education

St. John's University School of Law
J.D. (Dean's List)
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of New York
State Bar of New Jersey

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