David B. Golomb

Advocating on behalf of victims of negligence in New York and the surrounding areas, David B. Golomb has a reputation as a fierce litigator who stops at nothing to recover maximum compensation. As the senior partner at Golomb & Longo, PLLC, he focuses solely on handling personal injury cases involving catastrophic injuries, whether from automobile or construction incidents, medical malpractice, defective products or any other cause. For more than 25 years, he has given a renowned, statewide annual review lecture on the year's developments in Medical Malpractice law.

One of Mr. Golomb’s most notable cases involved a 29-year-old carpenter who fell from a scaffold and became paralyzed from the waist down, for whom he secured a $50,600,000 verdict. In 2018, he recovered $15,000,000 for an IBM executive who suffered a fractured leg when hit crossing a street by a major national package delivery service's van. In 2019, he recovered $8,000,000 against NYC Health & Hospitals (Bellevue) for a 30 y.o. gunshot victim after malpractice in the operating room left him paralyzed. Other accomplishments include obtaining the then-largest pre-trial personal injury settlement against New York City on behalf of a 35 year old woman left paraplegic in a motor vehicle crash caused by a defectively-designed N.Y.C. bridge, and the highest verdict ever in a flammable fabrics case, in which a 23 year old woman lab assistant suffered 2nd and 3rd degree burns to her upper body from a defective lab coat. 

For these and other accomplishments, Mr. Golomb holds the highest peer rating possible of AV Preeminent* from Martindale-Hubbell, and he has an Avvo “Superb” rating.

A former public defender, Mr. Golomb has been practicing law for over 40 years. Prior to earning his license, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English from Cornell University in 1970, going on to receive a law degree from St. John’s University School of Law.

A past president of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, Mr. Golomb remains active in that group as well as in the rest of the legal community through the American Association for Justice (formerly the Assoc. of Trial Lawyers of America), where he was on its Board for almost 20 years, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Public Justice, the Brooklyn Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association. He lectures frequently to lawyers and judges on trial tactics, evidence and medical malpractice.

Outside his practice, Mr. Golomb was one of four attorneys who founded Trial Lawyers Care, a national organization of volunteer attorneys which became the largest pro bono legal services effort in history and ultimately represented almost 95% of the families and survivors of the Sept. 11 attacks in the Federal compensation program for 9/11.

* AV®, AV Preeminent®, Martindale-Hubbell Distinguished and Martindale-Hubbell Notable are certification marks used under license in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell® is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the anonymous opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Rating™ fall into two categories – legal ability and general ethical standards.