Trailblazers in Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, and Product Liability Law | The Jacob Fuchsberg Law Firm

The principles of individual rights upon which the Fuchsberg Law Firm was founded still characterize our practice today.

Our history dates back to the 1920s, when one of our founding fathers, Henry E. Cohen, was one of the first lawyers in the country to represent individuals injured in accidents. His son-in-law, Jacob D. Fuchsberg, a nationally known trial lawyer and former judge of New York’s highest appeals court, was the first lawyer in the country to win a personal injury verdict of over $1 million.

The tradition continues with his son and daughter, Alan and Rosalind, and their partners Leslie Kelmachter and Brad Zimmerman, and the wonderful team of lawyers that pursue the tradition of strong and experienced legal representation.

A New York City Personal Injury Law Firm

Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Firm, a personal injury law firm in New York City, represents clients from New York, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Staten Island, White Plains and Long Island, New York, and the counties of New York County, Nassau County, Suffolk County, Westchester County, Rockland County and Orange County. In New Jersey, the firm represents clients in Union County, Essex County, Bergen County and Hudson County including the cities of Newark and Hackensack.

The Fuchsberg Commitment to Educating and Elevating the Legal Profession

Jack Fuchsberg, Henry Cohen, and the members of the present day Jacob Fuchsberg Law Firm share a lifelong commitment to improving the quality of the legal profession and ensuring that vigilant lawyers protect individual rights. Jack Fuchsberg was a founder and first president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. He was also a founder of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, which has trained more trial lawyers than any other organization. The Jacob D. Fuchsberg Hall at New York University Law School was the first facility dedicated to training lawyers in counseling skills, and the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center at Touro College in Long Island is a renowned law school emphasizing trial practice.

The members of the present day Jacob Fuchsberg Law Firm are actively involved in professional associations-we make it a priority to ensure that the legal profession continues to advance and further protects individual rights.

Our injury lawyers have leadership positions in:

• The Association of Trial Lawyers of America, co-founded by Jacob Fuchsberg
• Trial Lawyers For Public Justice
• New York State Trial Lawyers’ Association
• The New York State Bar Association
• The Association of the Bar of the City of New York

We also lend support to several not-for-profit legal organizations including the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, the Roscoe Pound Foundation, and the Center for Law and Social Justice.