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Judith Livingston

Judith Livingston

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New York, NYAdmitted 1979

About Judith Livingston

Judith A. Livingston is a senior partner at Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore and has been named one of the 50 most influential women lawyers in America by New York magazine and called a Legal Legend by LawDragon. She has won 37 trials with verdicts exceeding $1 million and negotiated hundreds of settlements totaling nearly half a billion dollars. She is President of the Inner Circle of Advocates, the first woman and youngest member invited to join that invitation-only group of 100 top plaintiff lawyers in the United States. She has been named New York Medical Malpractice Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers magazine for 2011 and 2013.

In 2022, Livingston was inducted into the Maurice A. Deane School of Law Hall of Fame at Hofstra University. She received the Presidential Medal from Hofstra University and the Fordham Founder's Award in 2014. She is a fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Society of Barristers, and sits on the Board of Directors of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association. Livingston graduated from SUNY Stony Brook with high honors and from Hofstra University School of Law in 1979, where she also received an Honorary Doctor of Laws in 1998.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$96 millionVerdict

A Wayne County jury awarded $96 million to the widow of a New Jersey father and his college-baseball-star son, both killed when a Challenger Motor Freight semi rear-ended their SUV in a Detroit-area construction zone while the driver was on three Parkinson's disease medications that warned against operating heavy equipment.

Wayne County Circuit Court, Michigan · 2023Truck AccidentsRead the full story →
$35.6 millionSettlement

Kramer Dillof Livingston and Moore secured a $35.6 million pre-verdict settlement, the highest in New York State history at the time, for a teenager who suffered catastrophic brain damage after Westchester Medical Center failed to treat frontal sinus fractures sustained in a scooter collision.

New York (Westchester County Healthcare Corp.) · 2024Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Hofstra University School of Law
J.D., 1979
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Undergraduate, 1976

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of New York, admitted 1979

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