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New York City Personal Injury Attorneys and Criminal Defense Lawyers

AttorneysSullivan & Brill, LLP combines the best aspects of both small and large law firms. The firm is small enough to give each client the close, personal service of an attorney with over 10 years of experience. The firm is also sufficiently large and experienced to take on any personal injury or criminal defense case, against any opponent, in New York as well as other areas of the United States.

 

Sullivan & Brill, LLP’s Criminal Defense and Personal Injury Attorneys

Personal injury attorney Joseph Sullivan  leads the firm’s New York City personal injury practice. He has spent over 10 years representing clients in a wide variety of personal injury litigation, including automobile accidents, construction accidents, slips and falls, lead paint ingestion, rapes and assaults due to inadequate security, medical malpractice, and products liability.

 

Steven Brill , the firm’s principal New York City criminal defense attorney, handles a broad range of cases, including serious felonies, federal charges, such as wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering, securities violations, drug charges, conspiracy, kidnapping, homicide, and white collar offenses, as well as misdemeanor cases involving DWI/DUI, prostitution, domestic violence, assault, and shoplifting.

 

Rachel Brill  heads up Sullivan & Brill, LLP’s San Juan Puerto Rico office. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School, has clerked for two federal judges, and has exceptional experience litigating federal criminal cases. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Puerto Rico and is recognized as one of the country’s foremost lawyers working in complex criminal appeals and post-conviction relief.

 

Experienced, Successful Trial Attorneys

Sullivan & Brill, LLP is different from many other law firms in that the principal attorneys at Sullivan & Brill are courtroom lawyers that have exceptional experience trying cases. All of them started their careers in positions that allowed them to gain valuable trial experience and all of them have amassed exceptional records of success at trial.

 

Serving Foreign Language Speakers

The firm has a long history of representing individuals in New York’s various foreign language speaking communities, including the Chinese, Spanish, and Polish communities. The firm can assist speakers of any foreign language and has a long list of satisfied clients from the Chinese, Spanish, and Polish communities.

 

Contact the Firm

Sullivan & Brill, LLP offers free initial consultations to potential clients. Visit Sullivan & Brill, LLP’s contact page, call (212) 566-1000 during business hours, or call a lawyer directly at (917) 279-7079 during evening hours. Potential clients can also fill out the online form.

 

For the majority of criminal defense and personal injury cases, the attorneys of Sullivan & Brill, LLP help clients throughout New York City (Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island), Nassau County, Suffolk County, and Westchester County, as well as the other New York counties. For federal or other large-scale cases, the firm’s criminal defense attorneys assist clients throughout the United States, including New York, San Juan, Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C.

 

Recent News & Cases

 

Sexual Assault leads to $500,000 settlement

The New York personal injury lawyer Joseph Sullivan recently obtained a $500,0000 settlement, with the assistance of a Florida law firm, for a client who was the victim of a sexual assault by an employee of a major cruise line.  Immediate intervention by Sullivan & Brill resulted in a police investigation that was critical to the success of the case.  Cruise ships are far more dangerous than the industry would like the public to believe.  Injuries caused by sexual assaults and slip and fall accidents are not uncommon.  Many people don’t realize that terms and conditions on the back of the cruise ticket require that they formally notify the cruise line of the details of the accident in a very short period of time, often 30 days, and that it limits the time within which they must file suit.  If you are injured on a cruise ship, you must act quickly.  The accident lawyers at Sullivan & Brill can help you get the compensation you deserve.

 

Delayed diagnosis of cancer leads to $350,000 settlement

A settlement of $350,000 was recently obtained by personal injury lawyer Joseph Sullivan for a women whose dermatologist gave her the incorrect results of a biopsy of a mole on her forehead.  She was told by the office staff that the biopsy was normal, when in fact it showed she had a basil cell carcinoma.  When the mole began to rapidly grow, she saw another dermatologist, who made the correct diagnosis.  Thankfully, the cancer had not spread and she was able to have it completely removed with surgery.  Today, she is cancer free.  However, the surgery left scars on her forehead, which Sullivan & Brill successfully argued she would not have been left with had the cancer been immediately diagnosed and removed.  The failure to diagnose cancer leads to thousands of serious injuries and death every year.  If you or a loved one has been injured by this type of medical malpractice, Sullivan & Brill can help you.

 

Guilty Plea for Couple in Child Manslaughter Case

A Staten Island couple was charged with second-degree manslaughter following the starvation death of their infant son.  A plea negotiated by Sullivan & Brill, LLP dramatically reduced their jail time.

 

$175,000 settlement obtained for child that sustained hernia

The car accident attorneys at Sullivan & Brill recently obtained a $175,000 settlement on behalf of a child that was injured when his uncle lost control of a rented car while traveling through North Carolina The car spun off the road and the seatbelt the child was wearing dug into his abdomen causing a serious hernia which had to be surgically repaired.  Later, it was also discovered that he had sustained a fracture in his pelvis.  The defendant claimed that the brakes on the vehicle had locked up.  Sullivan & Brill took immediate action to preserve the vehicle and then had it inspected by an automotive engineer who determine that breaks had not locked up prior to the defendant losing control of the vehicle.  Sullivan & Brill was also able to secure the vehicle’s “black box” which demonstrated, contrary to the defendant’s testimony, that he was traveling over 80 mph.