About Kenneth Halperin

Kenneth Halperin is a Partner at Wingate, Russotti, Shapiro, Moses & Halperin, LLP, managing the firm's complex litigation and construction case units. He handles general negligence, automobile liability, and premises liability matters.

Halperin earned his Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School and his Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York at Albany. He is admitted to the New York State Bar and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.

Halperin holds OSHA-10 certification from the U.S. Department of Labor and has been selected to Super Lawyers (2011-2022) and named one of the 10 Best Attorneys for 2019 by the American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys. He chairs the Jewish Lawyer's Guild Board and serves on the Board of Directors of the Precious Dreams Foundation. His notable results include $8.2M for a paralyzed construction worker and $7.25M in a scaffold defect injury case.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Wingate, Russotti, Shapiro, Moses & Halperin, LLP

These results are credited to Wingate, Russotti, Shapiro, Moses & Halperin, LLP. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$10.7 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2008 · #16

A Queens County jury awarded $10.7 million to Candida Diego after finding that New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens failed to timely perform a CT scan on a woman who arrived with a skull fracture, allowing a brain herniation to progress until she lapsed into a coma.

Queens County Supreme Court, New York · 2008Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$4.25 millionVerdict

A teenager vacationing in Hawaii developed steroid-induced paralysis after her lupus was treated with high-dose IV pulse therapy; Philip Russotti obtained a $4.25 million retrial verdict after the original $6.15 million award was vacated on appeal.

Circuit Court, First Circuit, Honolulu, Hawaii · 2013Medical MalpracticeRead 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 at Albany SUNY
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of New York
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
New York State Trial Lawyers Association
American Bar Association
Jewish Lawyer's Guild (Chairman of the Board)
Precious Dreams Foundation - Board of Directors

Awards & recognition

Super Lawyers (2011-2022)
American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys 10 Best (2019)

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$10.9 billion · Weitz and Luxenberg Helps Win $10.9 Billion Roundup Settlement for 125,000 Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Claimants
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$43.1 Million Verdict Against R.J. Reynolds for Brake Mechanic's Lung Cancer From Menthol and Asbestos
Kramer Dillof Livingston & Moore
Kramer Dillof Livingston & Moore
$265 million · The Amtrak 188 Derailment and the $265 Million Fund for Its Victims
Jacoby & Meyers, LLP
Jacoby & Meyers, LLP
$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.