Practice areas: Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Products Liability; view more
Licensed in New York since: 1984
Education: Syracuse University College of Law
Languages spoken: English, Spanish
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2008 Call today:
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A seasoned legal professional with over four decades of experience, Bob Genis leaves no holds barred in his efforts to get his clients the compensation and justice they deserve for the injuries they have sustained due to no fault of their own. The senior founding partner of Sonin & Genis Attorneys at Law, LLC, in the Bronx, New York, he handles myriad personal injury cases involving motor vehicle accidents, medical malpractice, brain injuries and wrongful death, among many others.
Mr. Genis completed his undergraduate studies in 1980, graduating with his Bachelor of Science degree from the State University of New York at Oneonta. He went on to attend Syracuse University College of Law and received his Juris Doctor in 1983. The very next year, he obtained his license to practice law in New York and later gained admission to practice before the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York. He is also licensed to practice law in New Jersey and Connecticut, and admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
A consummate professional through and through, Mr. Genis has garnered the praise and adulation of his peers for his practice that centers on providing clients with judicious legal representation backed with decades of legal and practical knowledge. For his many contributions, he has been inducted as a lifetime member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and has been recognized by the National Trial Lawyers in their Top 100 Trial Lawyers list.
Mr. Genis maintains close affiliations with many prominent legal organizations, including the New Jersey Association for Justice, the New York State Bar Association, the American Association for Justice and the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association. He is also active in many continuing legal education programs, hosting lectures on various platforms, including the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, the National Academy of Continuing Legal Education and Judicial Institute NYS, to name a few.
Practice areas
Personal Injury - General: Plaintiff, Personal Injury - Medical Malpractice: Plaintiff, Personal Injury - Products: PlaintiffFocus areas
Birth Injury, Brain Injury, Construction Accident, Delayed or Incorrect Diagnosis, Dental Malpractice, Medical Devices, Medical Malpractice, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Motor Vehicle Defects, Personal Injury - Plaintiff, Pharmaceutical, Premises Liability - Plaintiff, Sexual Abuse - Plaintiff, Toxic Mold, Trucking Accidents, Wrongful Death
- 50% Personal Injury - General: Plaintiff
- 40% Personal Injury - Medical Malpractice: Plaintiff
- 10% Personal Injury - Products: Plaintiff
First Admitted: 1984, New York
Professional Webpage: https://soningenis.com/our-firm
Bar / Professional Activity
- U.S. Federal Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit
- Connecticut
- New Jersey
- Past member Westchester County Bar Association
- New York
- Past member Brooklyn Bar Association
- Director, New York State Trial Lawyers Association
- Past member New York County Lawyers Association
- Past member Metropolitan Women's Bar Association
- Past member Women's Bar Association, State of New York
- Past member, New York State Bar Association
- Past member, American Bar Association
- Member, American Association for Justice
- Member, Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association
- Member, American Association for Justice-NJ
- Past Secretary, Tort Litigation Committee, Association of the Bar of the City of New York
- Past Director, Bronx County Women's Bar Association
- Director Bronx County Bar Association
- Past Vice President Jewish Lawyers Guild
Verdicts / Settlements (Case Results)
- $ 15 million verdict for injuries caused by collision with tractor trailer; $ 10 million dollar verdict for the wrongful death of a man caused by inadequate security; $ 8 million verdict for a man that slipped and fell on pigeon poop on a staircase of an elevated subway station for an aggravation of a pre-existing spinal condition; $ 6.5 million verdict in a wrongful death case on behalf of a chronic alcoholic on welfare who at the time of her slip & fall had a .316 BAC level (no comparative negligence), her daughter (the plaintiff) was a methadone addict on welfare; $ 3 million verdict for an aggravation of a soft tissue condition in a man involved in a car accident, where the man was unemployed and permanently disabled at the time of his accident; a $ 3 million settlement for RSD caused by falling off a defective liftgate of a trailer in rural Upstate Dutchess County NY; $ 2.5 million settlement in a medical malpractice; $ 2.420 million verdict for a chiropractor that sustained an injury to her neck in a hotel; $ 2.02 million verdict for a pedestrian hit by a police car;$ 1.5 million verdict in a medical malpractice case; $ 2 million verdict against the City of New York for a bicyclist injured due to a pothole; $ 1.75 million verdict for a bicyclist injured on ice; $ 1.5 million settlement for a worker that sustained an electric shock;$ 1.35 million verdict for a woman that broke her wrist in a subway station; $ 1.125 million settlement in a wrongful death caused by EMS's delay in responding to a call to "911"; a settlement of over $ 1 million for a death caused by dental malpractice by a federally funded clinic.
Representative Clients
- Lawyers, Doctors, Construction workers, Laborers, Union workers, Children, Broadway Producers, Musicians, Artists, teachers, police, Judge's families, court officers, court clerks, investment bankers, media, advertising, civil servants, sanitation workers, housekeepers, doormen, Professors, people from every walk of life.
Pro bono / Community Service
- Represented the family of Teron Francis and successfully changed the case law in the State of New York to give his family, and not the hospital, the right to decide when to terminate artificial and mechanical respiration and other devices.
Honors
- Chief Clerk Award Syracuse University College of Law
- “Lawyer’s Lawyer” award from the Bronx County Bar Association
- National Trial Lawyers: Top 100 Trial Lawyers
- Life Member Multi-Million Adovates Forum
- Leadership Award, Jewish Lawyers Guild
- Life Member Million Dollar Advocates Forum
Educational Background
- State University of New York at Oneonta, Magna Cum Laude, High Honors in Political Science; Cornell University - studied Chinese (Mandarin), International Law, Industrial Labor Relations
Scholarly Lectures / Writings
- Editor Bronx County Bar Association Journal
- Co-Author numerous articles: National Trial Lawyer Magazine, Outside Counsel Column New York Law Journal, New York State Trial Lawyers Quarterly, New York State Trial Lawyers Bill of Particulars, New York State Bar Association Insurance, Negligence Section, Queens Bar Journal, Bronx County Bar Association Journal
- Frequent lecturer for various Bar Associations on numerous topics. New York State Trial Lawyers Association Chair - Evidence New York State Trial Lawyers Association - lecturer - Decisions - Evidence; New York State Trial Lawyers Association - Medical Malpractice; Premises Liabiilty; Lead Poisoning; Trial Advocacy; Civil Trial Techniques; Experts; Civil Procedure; How to Try Your 1st Case; Damages; Threshhold Cases; Handling Soft Tissues Injuries; Association of the Bar of the City of New York - lecturer Handling Motor Vehicle Accidents Bronx County Bar Association - The Art of Advocacy; Cross-Examination; Discovery; Accident Reconstruction; Biomechanics; Seat Belts; Black Box Technology E-Filing, E-Discovery & E-Litigation; Evidence Update; Snow & Ice Cases; Ups & downs of Elevator Litigation; Evidence for Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice Case; Evidence Update; Motor Vehicle Litigation in NJ - New York County Lawyers Association; Orange Count Bar Association - Evidence Update; Bronx County Womens Bar Association - Trial Practice; Admissibility of Medical Records; Proving Loss of Earnings for Undocumented Aliens; E-Discovery - LAWLINE.com; Lead Paint Litigation: A Plaintiff's Guide - National Academy of Continuing Legal Education; E-Litigation - CLEOnline123.com.
- Associate Editor National Trial Lawyer Magazine
Other Outstanding Achievements
- Mr. Genis is a past Associate Editor of the National Trial Lawyer magazine and Past Editor in Chief of the Bronx Bar Journal, The Advocate, and has been published in those journals as well as the New York Law Journal, where he has been a frequent contributor, as well as the New York State Trial Lawyers Quarterly, New York State Trial Lawyers Bill of Particulars, the Queens Bar Journal and the Insurance, Negligence and Compensation Law Section Journal of the New York State Bar Association. Some of his articles have been cited in McKinney's and other treatises. Member of Committees that have written and re-written various statutes in the State of New York
- American Association For Justice
- American Association For Justice-New Jersey
- Bronx County Bar Association
- Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association
- New York State Trial Lawyers Association
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 2008
