Devon Reiff

Background: Mr. Reiff graduated the nationally ranked Fordham University and Fordham School of Law in NYC. Devon was an All-American athlete and  inducted into the Fordham University Athletic Hall of Fame for both Swimming and Water Polo. After law school, Mr. Reiff was chosen to become a member of the New York City Law Department's Manhattan Trial Unit. He spent several years in the courtroom handling back to back trials for the City before entering private practice. For four decades now, Devon Reiff has been helping those who have been injured as result of others' negligence. After 19 years at the helm of a large personal injury law firm with 6 offices throughout the New York Metropolitan and suburb areas he established his own boutique Manhattan based law firm, Devon Reiff P.C., in 2007.

For more than 10 years, while working with a leading NYC construction site accident law firm he represented their clients who were members of construction trade unions, including structural-steel ironworkers, ornamental ironworkers, laborers, steamfitters, lathers, bridge painters, carpenters, and other injured individuals. As a trial lawyer at that firm, both individually and as co-trial counsel, Devon had obtained several multi-million dollar jury verdicts and many multi-million dollar settlements for their clients. In the court room, Devon along with another lead trial attorney at that firm in 2016 and 2019 respectively obtained  two exceptionally large jury trial verdicts, ($13.7 Million & $22.9 Million respectively) for that firm's clients.  Those cases eventually resulted in confidential settlements.

Devon is currently working with his current clients, energized & supported by the younger law firm, Elefterakis, Elefterakis, & Panek, which Devon considers to be an extremely successful, caring, innovative, and exciting law firm.

Overall, Mr. Reiff has extensive trial experience and has vigorously represented clients in cases involving construction site accidents, motor vehicle crashes, defects in premises causing trip / slip and falls accidents, medical negligence, negligent health care and abuse in nursing homes, those injured by defective dangerous products, and cases against The City of New York and New York State when people are injured by their employee's negligence. He has also represented victims of police brutality and families that have lost a loved one (wrongful death) in an accident or as a result of medical negligence. Mr. Reiff also assists claimants in workers compensation matters and Social Security disability claims.

Most recent notable results in 2024:

$17.250 Million for a Union Ironworker who was struck in the head when a section of a hydraulic piston broke off striking him the head. 

$2.250 Million for a Union Iron Worker who slipped and fell on a wet working area while pulling braces off a crate holding the exterior window panels.

Some of Devon's post pandemic 2022 results:

$3.8 Million  for a bicyclist struck by a right turning commercial dump truck.

$2.75 Million for a Union Iron Worker who tripped on an improperly protruding tarp in his work area.

$2.5 Million for a Union Laborer struck by an heavy metal container door which swung open when the defective latch broke while it was being hoisted.

$2 Million for a Union Iron Worker who slipped on ice not cleared by the general contractor's laborers in his work area. 

Some of Mr. Reiff’s much earlier career successes on behalf of his clients include:

$4.3 Million jury verdict for a union construction worker window mechanic
$3.6 Million settlement for a pedestrian hit-and-run victim.
$3.5 Million jury verdict for a union construction worker electrician.
$3.5 Million jury verdict for a taxi driver who was shot due to the failure of apartment building security devices.
$2.1 Million settlement for a driver struck by a commercial truck. 
$1.82 Million jury verdict award for a victim of police brutality.
Fellow professionals have taken notice of his successes, as evidenced by his receipt of an AV Preeminent* peer review rating through Martindale-Hubbell; Selected to Super Lawyers for 18 consecutive years; a "Superb" peer-review rating through Avvo; & selection to the Best Lawyers from 2016 through 2024.

Admitted to practice in New York State courts, Mr. Reiff is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the Supreme Court of the United States.

*AV®, AV Preeminent®, is a certification mark 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.