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Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf: A Century-Old Firm With More Top-5 New York Verdicts Than Anyone Since 2017

Based on TopVerdict’s annual rankings from 2017 through 2025, no New York law firm secured more Top 5 verdicts in the state than Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf — and it is the only firm to have earned the state’s #1 overall verdict twice in that period.

Origin and Background

Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf practices in Manhattan, confirmed through the firm’s own site and independent directory coverage. The firm has represented victims and families in serious and complex personal injury cases across New York City and New York State for more than a century — one of the oldest continuously operating plaintiffs’ practices in the state.

Practice Concentration

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

Notable Work / Track Record

The firm’s TopVerdict record — most Top 5 New York verdicts from 2017 through 2025, with the #1 overall New York verdict twice — is sourced to a third-party verdict-ranking service rather than the firm’s own tally. Partner Ben Rubinowitz has been voted Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year” six times, including twice in a single year for both Personal Injury Law – Plaintiff and Product Liability Law – Plaintiff in New York City, with prior selections in 2016, 2017, and 2018. Past results do not guarantee similar outcomes.

Client Voice

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

Beyond the Courtroom

Rubinowitz is a longtime legal educator and lecturer on trial advocacy, a role reflected in his repeated peer selection as Lawyer of the Year across multiple practice categories.

Recognition for This New York Personal Injury Firm

Six Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year” designations for a single partner, plus the firm’s standing TopVerdict rankings, are peer-selected and third-party-compiled 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

Most New York personal injury claims carry a three-year statute of limitations under CPLR 214(5), with medical malpractice shortened to two and a half years under CPLR 214-a, and New York applies pure comparative negligence under CPLR 1411 so that an injured person’s own fault reduces rather than bars recovery. Auto-accident victims must additionally clear the “serious injury” threshold of Insurance Law Section 5102(d) before suing for pain and suffering under the state’s no-fault system. None of this is legal advice; a specific injury claim should be evaluated by a licensed New York attorney based on the actual facts involved.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

This firm’s clearest differentiator is independently compiled: the strongest Top-5 verdict record in New York over nearly a decade, carried by a firm with more than a hundred years of continuous plaintiffs’ practice and a partner whom peers have named Lawyer of the Year six times. The honest trade-off is the same one that attends every elite severity practice — case selectivity — and the firm’s long formal name itself signals an institutional, partner-driven structure rather than a high-volume consumer intake operation. For a catastrophic injury, complex product liability, or medical malpractice claim in New York where trial capability determines settlement value, this firm belongs on any serious shortlist.

Methodology and Sourcing

This profile was researched from the firm’s own site, its TopVerdict-sourced ranking claims, and Best Lawyers records of Ben Rubinowitz’s Lawyer of the Year selections.

Publisher Disclosure and Independence Notice

Awesome Attorneys is an independent legal directory and editorial publication. This profile was not paid for, commissioned, or reviewed by Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf 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.