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William Hepner

Partner at Wingate, Russotti, Shapiro, Moses & Halperin, LLP
New York, NY26 years experienceAdmitted 1991
Workplace InjuryMedical MalpracticeWrongful Death
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About William Hepner

William P. Hepner is a Partner at Wingate, Russotti, Shapiro, Moses & Halperin, LLP, a trial lawyer who has tried and litigated numerous automobile, premises, medical malpractice, and construction accident cases.

Hepner earned his Juris Doctor from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 1991, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Cardozo New Europe Law Review. He earned his Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from the State University of New York at Albany in 1983. He is admitted to the New York State Bar and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.

Hepner joined the firm in 1998 and serves as a Small Claims Court Arbitrator in Manhattan. His honors include Super Lawyers (2012-2017, 2020-2022), Top 10 Personal Injury Settlements (2018) by Top Verdict, and 10 Best Attorney (2019) by the American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys. His notable settlements include $5.75M for a falling beam construction injury and $4.5M for a construction worker wrongful death from heat stroke.

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 →
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Practice areas

Workplace InjuryMedical MalpracticeWrongful Death

Education

University at Albany SUNY
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of New York, admitted 1991
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
American Judge's Association
New York State Trial Lawyers Association
American Association for Justice
New York State Bar Association

Awards & recognition

Super Lawyers (2012-2017, 2020-2022)
Top 10 Personal Injury Settlements - Top Verdict (2018)
American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys 10 Best (2019)

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