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Kramer Dillof Livingston & Moore: The 1950 Firm Whose Senior Partner Presides Over the Inner Circle of Advocates

Judith Livingston has won 37 trials with verdicts exceeding $1 million and currently serves as president of the Inner Circle of Advocates — the invitation-only group of the nation’s top 100 plaintiffs’ trial lawyers — from her seat as senior partner at a firm founded in 1950.

Origin and Background

Kramer Dillof Livingston & Moore practices in Manhattan, confirmed through the firm’s own site and independent directory coverage. Founded in 1950, the firm has spent 74-plus years representing victims of serious injury throughout New York, and its attorneys have appeared on Best Lawyers lists for 20 consecutive years. Founding-era member Jack Giordano has been recognized among the Top 100 Civil Trial Lawyers in the New York area, and Livingston was named one of the 50 Most Influential Women Lawyers in America by New York Magazine.

Practice Concentration

The firm concentrates on the most serious plaintiff-side injury litigation: medical malpractice, product liability, wrongful death, and catastrophic personal injury. See this New York Personal Injury directory for how this medical-malpractice-weighted trial practice compares to construction-focused and general plaintiff firms serving the five boroughs.

Notable Work / Track Record

The firm reports over 150 verdicts exceeding $1 million, settlements totaling over $1 billion, and more than $3 billion recovered in total. Its most cited single result is a $172 million verdict for a disabled woman injured when New York City EMTs failed to provide her with basic emergency care — a case against the City itself. Past results do not guarantee similar outcomes.

Client Voice

Consistent with a severity-focused medical malpractice and catastrophic injury practice, the firm’s public reputation runs primarily through peer and editorial recognition rather than high-volume consumer review platforms; Awesome Attorneys did not identify a pattern of negative reviews warranting disclosure.

Beyond the Courtroom

Livingston’s presidency of the Inner Circle of Advocates places a KDLM partner at the head of the most selective plaintiffs’ trial-lawyer organization in the country — an institutional distinction few New York firms can match.

Recognition for This New York Personal Injury Firm

Twenty consecutive years of Best Lawyers recognition, Inner Circle of Advocates membership, and National Trial Lawyers recognition are peer-selected credentials distinct from paid marketing placements. New York State does not operate a state-run attorney specialization certification program, so Awesome Attorneys does not apply “specialist” language to any New York profile on a state-certification basis.

New York Legal Backdrop

Medical malpractice claims in New York carry a two-and-a-half-year limitations period under CPLR 214-a — shorter than the three years afforded most negligence claims under CPLR 214(5) — with special rules for cancer misdiagnosis, foreign objects, and continuous treatment. Claims against the City of New York, like the firm’s $172 million EMT verdict, additionally require a 90-day notice of claim under General Municipal Law Section 50-e. New York applies pure comparative negligence under CPLR 1411. None of this is legal advice; a specific malpractice or injury claim should be evaluated by a licensed New York attorney based on the actual facts involved.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

KDLM’s clearest differentiator is trial pedigree at the very top of the plaintiffs’ bar: 74 years of practice, 150-plus million-dollar verdicts, and a senior partner presiding over the Inner Circle of Advocates. The honest trade-off is selectivity — a firm consistently ranked among New York’s top three plaintiff practices concentrates on high-severity, high-complexity cases, and a person with a routine injury claim may receive faster engagement from a volume-oriented practice. For a family facing catastrophic medical malpractice, a birth injury, or a wrongful death against a well-defended institution, KDLM’s courtroom record is among the most formidable available in New York.

Methodology and Sourcing

This profile was researched from Kramer Dillof Livingston & Moore’s own site and Expertise.com’s editorial profile of the firm, including its published verdict history and the professional recognitions of its named partners.

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Awesome Attorneys is an independent legal directory and editorial publication. This profile was not paid for, commissioned, or reviewed by Kramer Dillof Livingston & Moore prior to publication. Awesome Attorneys may in the future offer sponsored placement products to attorneys and firms, including this one, but sponsorship has no bearing on the editorial content, inclusion, or findings of this profile.