About Seth Price

Seth Price is the Founding and Managing Partner of Price Benowitz LLP, which he has grown from two attorneys to more than 40.

Price earned his Juris Doctor with honors from George Washington University School of Law and his Bachelor of Arts in Economics and International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania. He is admitted to the Bar of the District of Columbia and the State Bar of New York.

After law school, Price worked as an insurance litigator at Swindler & Berlin and was a co-founder of USLaw.com, an early consumer legal website. He served on the executive committee of the National Trial Lawyers Association and is a member of the Washington DC Trial Lawyers Association. He serves as Board Chair of KIPP Baltimore and as a board member of Ed Village.

His honors include a 10/10 Avvo rating, an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell, Thomson Reuters Super Lawyers selection (2013-2025), Top 100 Trial Lawyer by the National Trial Lawyers Association, Top 50 Lawyers by Amtrak Magazine, and Top 100 Washington, D.C. by Super Lawyers.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Price Benowitz Accident Injury Lawyers, LLP

These results are credited to Price Benowitz Accident Injury Lawyers, LLP. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$25 million sought

Price Benowitz, with co-counsel Ben Crump, filed a $25 million wrongful death suit for the father of Rolin Hill, who died in 2024 after Virginia Beach jail deputies restrained and beat him during a mental health crisis.

Virginia Beach, Virginia · 2026Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

A large tree fell onto a moving car on Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park and trapped the driver, Marcelino Cruz Leiva. He sued the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act, alleging the National Park Service should have found and removed the decayed tree. After a four-day bench trial in December 2023, Judge Amit Mehta entered judgment for Cruz Leiva on his negligence claim in the sum of $5 million on May 7, 2024.

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Washington · 2024Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

A federal judge held the United States could be sued under the Federal Tort Claims Act for a tree limb that fell on pedestrian Mary Lou Walen during Hurricane Sandy, rejecting the government's sovereign-immunity defense and later denying summary judgment.

U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (Washington, DC) · 2017Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

Price Benowitz brought a federal civil rights and wrongful death suit after Alonzo Smith, 27, died in 2015 while special police officers restrained him face down at a Southeast Washington apartment complex.

U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (Washington, DC) · 2017Wrongful 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

University of Pennsylvania
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of District of Columbia
State Bar of New York
National Trial Lawyers Association (former Executive Committee)
Washington DC Trial Lawyers Association
KIPP Baltimore (Board Chair)
Ed Village (Board Member)

Awards & recognition

Avvo 10/10 Rating
AV Preeminent - Martindale-Hubbell
Thomson Reuters Super Lawyers (2013-2025)
Top 100 Trial Lawyer - National Trial Lawyers Association
Top 50 Lawyers - Amtrak Magazine
Top 100 Washington D.C. Super Lawyers

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Proven verdicts and settlements from other Washington firms

Regan Zambri Long Personal Injury Lawyers
Regan Zambri Long Personal Injury Lawyers
$6.17 Million Verdict for Skier Brain-Injured in Fall Off Unmarked Drop-Off at Massanutten Ski Resort
Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP
Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP
$5.5 billion · J&J Agrees to Pay at Least $5.5 Billion to Resolve 76,000 Talc-Cancer Claims
Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner LLP
Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner LLP
$20 Million Judgment Against U.S. for Driver Paralyzed When Smithsonian Bus Ran Red Light
Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata & Siegel, P.C.
Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata & Siegel, P.C.
$17.11 million · $17.1 Million Verdict After Missed Ectopic Pregnancy Kills Young DC Mother
Patrick Malone & Associates, P.C.
Patrick Malone & Associates, P.C.
$8.35 million · Record $8.35 Million D.C. Verdict After Knee Surgery Cost an 82-Year-Old His Leg

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