Melissa Kapustin
About Melissa Kapustin
Melissa Rothenberg-Kapustin joined The Rothenberg Law Firm in 2007 and manages the firm's Hackensack, NJ office. She earned her J.D. with High Honors from Rutgers University School of Law-Newark in 2007 and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. While in law school, she worked as a student attorney for the Rutgers Urban Legal Clinic representing low-income clients in Social Security/SSI disability hearings, and assisted in preparing briefs and motions before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She completed a summer judicial internship with the Honorable Rachel N. Davidson of the Essex County Superior Court, Law Division. She also holds a Master's degree in Modern Jewish History and is a frequent lecturer on Jewish history and law.
Proven verdicts and settlements at The Rothenberg Law Firm Accident And Injury Lawyers
These results are credited to The Rothenberg Law Firm Accident And Injury Lawyers. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Philadelphia jury found AMC 100 percent at fault after a woman in her late 70s fractured her hip tripping in a darkened movie auditorium in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, awarding $3,146,500 following a five-day trial.
A 16-year-old was struck in the left eye by a piece of metal while walking under a Safway Steel Products scaffold in Brooklyn in 1999, permanently damaging his retina. Safway's answer was struck after two years of ignoring discovery orders, and a Kings County inquest produced a $1.05 million judgment in 2005. The Appellate Division reduced it to $700,000 in 2007, and the Court of Appeals affirmed in 2008.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
