Top Rated Personal Injury Attorney in New York, NY

John Elefterakis is a co-founder and a partner at Elefterakis, Elefterakis & Panek, located in New York, New York. Focusing his practice on personal injury litigation, he represents clients throughout the state as well as from New Jersey who have been harmed by the negligent acts of others in matters involving medical malpractice, motor vehicle accidents, nursing home neglect, defective products, construction site injuries and wrongful death actions.

Mr. Elefterakis pursued his undergraduate studies at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, where he received his Bachelor of Arts. He then went on to attend the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University and was awarded his Juris Doctor. Admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey, Mr. Elefterakis is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.

Always seeking to keep current with developments in his field of practice, Mr. Elefterakis is an active participant in several professional organizations, including the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, the New York State Bar Association and the Brooklyn Bar Association. He has appeared on several television programs, including "Anderson Cooper 360" on CNN, to discuss various aspects of cases with which he has been involved.

Mr. Elefterakis has obtained numerous sizable settlements and jury verdicts for his personal injury clients. One such case resulted in a $3.35 million jury verdict for a woman who had been seriously injured in an automobile accident after a $400,000 settlement offer made by the defendant's insurance company before the trial began was declined. Other representative awards have included a $2.75 million settlement for a construction worker who was injured on the job and a $1.2 million bench verdict in a premises liability case.