Practice Areas: Civil Rights, Personal Injury; view more
Licensed in New York since: 1982
Education: Rutgers School of Law - Camden
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Attorney Edward Sivin is a senior partner and the principal appellate lawyer at the law firm of Sivin Miller & Roche, LLP, Attorneys at Law, in New York, NY. Mr. Sivin practices primarily in the areas of civil rights and personal injury law, serving clients in the New York City metropolitan area and throughout New York State.
Mr. Sivin represents victims of police misconduct in cases involving excessive force, false arrest, malicious prosecution, and unjust conviction. He also represents pre-trial detainees and prisoners throughout the State of New York in claims involve excessive force by correction officers and negligent supervision by correctional staff. He also represents New York residents in personal injury matters involving brain injury, motor vehicle accidents, construction accidents, and premises liability.
Over the course of his career, Mr. Sivin has successfully argued many significant appeals that have set legal precedents providing better protections for victims of police misconduct and prison abuse. Â He has also obtained substantial verdicts and settlements on behalf of victims of police misconduct, including those who have been subject to excessive force, false arrest, and malicious prosecution, and victims of abuse by correction officers and staff.
Mr. Sivin received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University at Albany, State University of New York, and earned his law degree from Rutgers Law School in Camden, New Jersey. While pursuing his law degree, he served as an editor of the law review.
Following law school, Mr. Sivin obtained his license to practice law in 1982, which qualified him to appear before all New York state courts. He also is admitted to the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, Northern, and Western Districts of New York, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He also is licensed to practice law in New Jersey.Â
Practice areas
Civil Rights, Personal Injury - General: PlaintiffFocus areas
Americans with Disabilities Act, Animal Bites, Assault, Brain Injury, Construction Accident, Disability, Discrimination, Dram Shop Laws, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Native Peoples Law, Personal Injury - Plaintiff, Police Misconduct, Premises Liability - Plaintiff, Race Discrimination, Sexual Abuse - Plaintiff, Slip and Fall, Trucking Accidents, Wrongful Death
First Admitted: 1982, New York
Professional Webpage: http://www.sivinandmiller.com/Attorneys/Edward-Sivin.shtml
- New York, 1982
- University at Albany, B.A., Major: Philosophy
- George Williams was assaulted by corrections officers at Attica Correctional Facility and suffered extensive injuries as a result. He suffered broken shoulder, several cracked ribs, two broken legs (one of which required surgery), and several facial fractures including his orbit surrounding his left eye. As a result of this incident, for the first time in state history criminal charges were brought against the corrections officers for an incident not involving sexual assault. Glenn Miller is now the trial attorney handling Mr. Williams' civil case. This case was featured on the cover of the Sunday New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/nyregion/attica-prison-infamous-for-bloodshed-faces-a-reckoning-as-guards-go-on-trial.html, 2015
- Ex-prisoner awarded $400,000 after correction officers repeatedly kicked his head during upstate prison transfer -Â A federal jury Friday awarded a former prisoner $400,000 for injuries he suffered after a group of state correction officers beat him bloody while he was fully restrained. (http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ex-prisoner-400g-brutal-attack-correction-officers-article-1.3031697), 2017
- The New York Times recently published an article covering a massive assault on inmates by corrections officers at Midstate correctional facility in which over 30 inmates were beaten and verbally assaulted. Glenn Miller is the trial attorney for all of the inmates in the ongoing civil law suit in relation to this incident and the firm is mentioned in the article. (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/nyregion/new-york-prison-inmates-guards-beatings.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0), 2016
- False Arrest/ Excessive Force – $300,000 Settlement for a 41 year-old female who was beaten outside Club Fight Night in Brooklyn by undercover officers from the 71st precinct., 2019
- False Arrest/ Malicious Prosecution – $175,000 Settlement for a 32 year-old male who was falsely arrested and charged with attempted assault on a police officer by officers from the 42nd precinct., 2019
- False Arrest/ Malicious Prosecution – $200,000 Settlement for a couple in their 60s who were falsely arrested and charged with possession of a control substance by detectives from the 32nd precinct., 2019
- False Arrest/ Malicious Prosecution – $350,000 Settlement for a for a 32 year-old male who was falsely arrested and charged with attempted assault on a police officer by officers from the 42nd precinct., 2019
- Prison Brutality - $525,000 Settlement for a 35 year-old Manhattan Detention Complex inmate, who was assaulted by inmates and a correction officer causing him to sustain multiple injuries to his hands., 2019
- Prison Brutality - $875,000 Settlement for a 54 year-old Riker’s Island inmate, who suffered a perforated eardrum from getting beaten by corrections officers., 2019
- False Arrest/ Malicious Prosecution – $550,000 Settlement for a 43 year-old female who was falsely arrested and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance by detectives from the Narcotics Borough Manhattan., 2019
- Prison Brutality - $612,500 Settlement for a 30 year-old Riker’s Island inmate, who suffered multiple facial fractures from getting beaten by corrections officers., 2019
- Prison Brutality - $655,000 Verdict for a 37 year-old Sing Sing Correctional Facility inmate, who was assaulted by other inmates and suffered multiple lacerations and TMJ disorder due to the negligence of corrections staff., 2019
- (Police Brutality/False Arrest)$350,000 settlement for a 20-year-old man who sustained serious injuries to his leg when run over by an NYPD vehicle and then falsely arrested. Â (Ramon Duarte v. The City of New York 19643/2013), 2015
- (Police Misconduct)Â $700,000 settlement for a man who was denied access to his catheter during a false arrest and detention and suffered permanent kidney damage as a result. (SARNICOLA,NICHOLAS vs. CITY OF NEW YORK 014757/2013)Â , 2016
- (Police Brutality/ False Arrest)- $850,000 settlement to two sisters and their neighbor who were assaulted by a police officer inside their home and then falsley detained. (NJIE,CURA vs. CITY OF NEW YORK (301354/2012)), 2016
- Prison Brutality - $250,000 verdict (including $50,000 in punitive damages) for a Riker’s Island inmate who was beaten, while handcuffed, by a gang of corrections officers who were concerned that our client would snitch on one of their fellow officers. (MAURA, ELIBARDO vs. CITY OF NEW YORK (310884/2011)), 2017
- (ASSAULT)Â $1,000,000 verdict for a 22 year old student who was accosted with racial slurs and stabbed in the chest by a student who became intoxicated at a fraternity event. Â HOLIDAY,CHARLES vs. POFFENBARGER,NATHAN (038046/2006), 2014
- Police Brutality/False Arrest/Malicious Prosecution -Â $450,000Â settlement for a Brooklyn porter who was falsely accused of theft and assaulted by New York City Sanitation Department police officers. (Harford v. The City of New York, et.al. Â Â 7047/09),, 2015
- (Prison Brutality)- 612,500 dollar settlement for a man who was badly beaten by guards at Rikers on multiple occasions and suffered fractured bones and a ruptured ear drum as a result. (CRUZ,MICHAEL NELSON vs. THE CITY OF NEW YORK (306492/2013)), 2016Edit item— (False Arrest/ Imprisonment & Malicious Prosecution) $250,000 settlement for a man who was falsely arrested by a NYPD officer and falsely charged and maliciously prosecuted for murder. ( KIRSIS CORPORAN vs. BARRIER FREE LIVING INC. (300799/2011) ),, 2016
- Prison Brutality -Â $400,000Â verdict (including $300,000 in punitive damages) in the Western District of New York for a 37 year-old former inmate who was assaulted by corrections officers at an upstate prison in retaliation for writing grievances against fellow officers. (MALIK, SULTAN vs. CRAIG L. SKELLY, ET AL., (09-CV-6283)), 2017
- False Arrest/Imprisonment -Â $450,000Â settlement for Queens beauty salon attendant falsely accused of prostitution. (Xiaoning He v. The City of New York et al. (7000008/12)), 2015
- (Negligent Security)Â $1,205,000 settlement awarded to family of fatally assaulted resident of homeless shelter. (CORPORAN,KIRSIS vs. ST. RAYMOND CEMETERY (304437/2013)), 2016
- (Police brutality) $3,500,000 million verdict for a 21-year-old security guard who sustained multiple hand and wrist fractures as a result of gunshots by NYPD. Both Glenn Miller and partner, Edward Sivin worked this case together as co-council  (WILLIAMS,TARRELL vs. CITY OF NY) (042210/2003), 2016
- Prison Brutality - $655,000 settlement for 40-year-old former Riker's Island inmate whose jaw was fractured in an attack by another inmate while a corrections officer took no action. (MUNIZ, EDGARDO vs. CITY OF NEW YORK (300173/2013)), 2017
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