Michael Fitzpatrick

New York, NY26 years experienceAdmitted 1998

About Michael Fitzpatrick

Michael J. Fitzpatrick is a Partner at Wingate, Russotti, Shapiro, Moses & Halperin, LLP, focusing on personal injury litigation with extensive experience in arbitration and mediation.

Fitzpatrick earned his Juris Doctor with honors from New York Law School in 1998, completing his legal education at night while working as a uniformed New York State Court Officer in Manhattan Family Court for six years. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from St. John's University. He is admitted to the New York State Bar and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.

Fitzpatrick began practice in the Brooklyn Tort Division of the New York City Law Department before entering private practice in 2002. He has been selected to Super Lawyers (2018-2022). His notable settlements include $2.75 million in a slip and fall down a retail store staircase and $2.6 million for a passenger struck by a bus.

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

St. John's University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of New York, admitted 1998
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York

Awards & recognition

Super Lawyers (2018-2022)

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$43.1 Million Verdict Against R.J. Reynolds for Brake Mechanic's Lung Cancer From Menthol and Asbestos
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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.