Eileen Kelly

New York, NY15 years experience

About Eileen Kelly

Eileen Kelly is a personal injury attorney at The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C., where she has worked since 2019 advocating for clients injured in construction accidents, workplace incidents, premises accidents, and motor vehicle collisions. Eileen began her career at a personal injury firm in Wilmington, Delaware after passing the bar there, and has obtained millions of dollars in settlements for her clients. She has been recognized as a Super Lawyers Rising Star every year from 2017 through 2021 and has continued to be honored among Best Lawyers' "Ones to Watch" through 2024.

Proven verdicts and settlements at The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.

These results are credited to The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$9.9 millionSettlement

A union laborer fell about ten feet from a scaffold to the sidewalk after the owner and general contractor failed to give him a safe way to climb on and off it, and his back and heel injuries produced a $9.9 million settlement that VerdictSearch and the New York Law Journal ranked as the state's second-largest of 2014.

New York, NY · 2014Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
$6 millionSettlement

David H. Perecman of The Perecman Firm secured a $6 million settlement for a 45-year-old union operating engineer who slipped descending a tower crane's ladder, fell about 14 feet, and tore his left rotator cuff.

New York County (Manhattan) Supreme Court, NY · 2013Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
$1.5 millionSettlement

A Local 12A demolition worker crushed by collapsing scaffolding during the teardown at Queens' Aqueduct racetrack recovered $1.5 million in a mediated settlement, a result the New York Law Journal ranked among its top 2020 settlements.

Queens (Aqueduct Racetrack), NY · 2020Workplace InjuryRead the full story →

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

Practice areas

Education

Western Michigan Cooley Law School (Thomas M. Cooley Law School)
J.D., cum laude, 2011
University of Delaware
Undergraduate, 2007

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of New York
State Bar of Delaware
State Bar of Pennsylvania
New York State Trial Lawyers Association
Law Review Board Editor (during law school)
Moot Court (during law school)

Awards & recognition

Super Lawyers Rising Star (2017-2021)
Super Lawyers (2016-2023)
Best Lawyers "Ones to Watch" (2022-2024)
The National Order of Scribes

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$265 million · The Amtrak 188 Derailment and the $265 Million Fund for Its Victims
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$34 million · Jury Awards $34 Million After Prempro Hormone Therapy Causes Breast Cancer and Double Mastectomy

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