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About Elliot Schaktman
Elliot M. Schaktman is an attorney at Lipsig, Freund & Wisell, PLLC with over 44 years of experience advocating for accident victims. He handles complex personal injury matters including labor law, premises liability, municipal claims, and other serious injury cases. His career includes serving as managing partner of a prominent personal injury firm and leading his own plaintiff-focused practice. He earned his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1981 and his B.S. from Brooklyn College in 1978. Elliot is admitted to practice in both New York and New Jersey, as well as in several federal district courts.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Lipsig, Freund & Wisell
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A Nassau County jury awarded $96,906,004 to a woman who suffered catastrophic brain injuries at age 15 at an intersection the county had been warned about for years, making it the second-largest verdict in Nassau County history.
A Bronx jury awarded Aminata Kromah $10.4 million after a cracked apartment staircase step caused a catastrophic ankle fracture that left her with permanent reflex sympathetic dystrophy, and the First Department affirmed the result as the largest ankle-injury pain-and-suffering award it had ever sustained outside of amputation or brain-damage cases.
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