About Lucy M. Berkman
Lucy M. Berkman has 20 years of experience advising clients in all aspects of estate planning. She offers counsels with both simple and complex estate matters, including wills, trusts, power of attorney and advance directives, business succession planning, and Medicaid planning and asset preservation. In addition, she represents fiduciaries and beneficiaries in estate and trust administration matters, including will contests, accounting proceedings, and kinship establishment, as well as guardianship proceedings in both New York State Surrogate's Court and New York State Supreme Court. In addition to practicing in New York State, Ms. Berkman is licensed to practice in the State of Florida. She assists with clients' Florida-based estate planning and administration needs.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria
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An Erie County jury awarded $100 million to a woman sexually abused over four years beginning at age 12, the largest Child Victims Act verdict in New York State history.
A Monroe County jury ordered former Rochester Catholic priest Foster Rogers to pay $95 million to a man he sexually assaulted in 1979, when the victim was 15 years old, in one of the largest Child Victims Act verdicts in New York history.
An Erie County jury awarded $65 million to a woman who was sexually abused over seven years as a child by former Buffalo YMCA counselor James B. Jackson, in one of the largest verdicts under New York's Child Victims Act.
An Erie County jury awarded $30 million to a man who was sexually abused as a child by Rev. Douglas D. Thore, a Lutheran pastor in Marilla, NY, in what was reported as the largest Child Victims Act verdict in Western New York at the time.
An Erie County jury awarded $25 million to a man sexually abused by his Boy Scout troop leader in Cheektowaga during the early 1970s, in what presiding Judge Mark Grisanti described as the first jury verdict reached under New York's Child Victims Act.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.