Even at 87

Even at 87

Even at 87

At an age man when most men are into their third decade of retirement, this particular attorney decided to start his second law firm. Into his longtime office marched this 87 year old with characteristic nerve and verve, one of the nation's best known personal injury lawyers, a few months ago while being accompanied by a lot of guards. Other than emptying out his desk, a feud with his partners also led him to pull his name from the door as his men stood patrol.

He still appears in the courtroom occasionally but most of the day to day trial work goes to his new partner and protege, a tough, no nonsense lady lawyer and former assistant Queens district attorney. Not only did his endless energy, passion for perfection, and gift for showbiz glitz, not to mention enormous ambition help him win unwinnable cases but in the process he was able to amass millions of dollars.

In the case of a man being frightened to death by a car that drove onto his lawn, this lawyer has been successful in convincing the judge earning him the label of The Equalizer who got $740,000 for the family of a heart attack victim. When a guest was attacked by a shark, he successfully put the blame on an Acapulco hotel. A part of his argument was that the hotel should have told the guests that their ways of dumping garbage in the ocean could attract sharks.

Actually, he is boasting about how he contributed to the employment of 120 full time personal injury lawyers in New York City as well as the need for $175 million in settlement payments. In the same way as other lawyers in tort or personal injury law do, he also works by contingency fee taking one third of all settlements. When it comes to those who blame the aggressive personal injury lawyers for high insurance and tax rates, he sneers at these people.

This man is capable of playing with the emotions of people as he tells the story of how a poor man will be confined to a hospital bed for the rest of his like and not even be able to do so at home but at the vilest of all prisons. You could say that he has the finesse of a symphony conductor in handling a jury. When the jury is entertained you always win.

Being victorious is a matter of doing research. When it comes to court trials, he is obsessed with not being made into a fool for overlooking things. In this line of work, not only has this lawyer found himself in hair raising situations but also on the covers of Time Magazine and The Wall Street Journal.

Every time he talks about his line of work or himself, he does not humbly do so. He says that no lawyer who tries cases is any good unless he has vanity. With a bit of respect and confidence comes some vanity. A 33 year old woman was adopted by him and his wife and she oversees things when it comes to his personal and professional life. According to his old partners, this owner of a Mexican restaurant and ever present assistant is to blame for them being driven apart. He realized things because of her.

About 6 years old was he when his Ukrainian family immigrated to New York, when he graduated Brooklyn Law School in 1929 the good legal work was all entrusted to the politically connected Irish firms. Aspiring Jewish attorneys like him were left with minor criminal cases, personal injury and the like.

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