Contact personal injury lawyer Robert S. Kelner of Kelner & Kelner, serving clients throughout New York, to discuss your case.
Robert S. Kelner, a founding partner of Kelner & Kelner with his father Joseph Kelner, graduated from Columbia Law School in 1971. Since that time, he has practiced as a personal injury and medical malpractice lawyer in New York.
His career has been characterized by a deep commitment to protecting the interests of injury victims. In fact, on April 8, 2004, the New York Times covered Mr. Kelner and his work in its “Public Lives” column, in an article entitled “No Apologies About Fighting for the Victims.”
Mr. Kelner has obtained over 200 verdicts and settlements of $1 million or greater. Many of these cases resulted in much larger amounts, including jury verdicts of over $36 million in Driscoll v. Transit Authority and over $22 million in Martin v. Dellwood. Some of his recent accomplishments include winning a $10.4 million jury verdict against the City of New York when only $1.5 million was offered as a settlement. He also recently secured an out-of-court settlement of over $17 million in a wrongful death case, and two additional settlements of $9 million each in personal injury cases.
Robert Kelner's legal career has included certain very high profile cases. Early in his career, he served as one of the trial lawyers representing the students shot at Kent State University. More recently, he represented the estate of Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees in a wrongful death case, and Mariane Pearl, the wife of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl who was murdered in Pakistan. Mr. Kelner also successfully defended Liza Minnelli in a suit brought by her husband, David Gest, that alleged assault. The case was dismissed.
Robert Kelner is an active writer and speaker in the areas of personal injury law and trial practice. For many years, he has been the co-author of the “Trial Practice” column in the New York Law Journal. He has lectured at nearly every major bar association in New York and also at Princeton University and Columbia Law School. He is co-chairman of the Civil Trial Practice Institute of the New York County Lawyers Association, and its Civil Trial Practice course. He has also been chairman of the New York State Bar Association’s “Ethics in Litigation” program and the New York County Lawyers “Rock Stars of the Legal Profession” program.
Robert Kelner has appeared extensively in the media. He has appeared on television on NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, Court TV, and CNBC, and has been interviewed by Wolf Blitzer, Maria Bartiromo, and Dan Abrams. He has also been interviewed on the radio in the U.S. and U.K., as well as by a variety of newspapers. He has been quoted in the New York Times, New York Post, Newsday, New York Daily News, and New York Law Journal, as well as other publications.
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Robert Kelner's career as a personal injury lawyer serving the people of New York gives him and his associates the tools to pursue your claim aggressively and effectively. If you have been injured, contact Kelner & Kelner, Counselors at Law today to discuss your options with a seasoned personal injury lawyer.