Top Rated Personal Injury Attorney in Staten Island, NY

As president of Connors & Connors, P.C., John P. Connors, Jr., has spent over three decades defending clients in a wide array of liability cases including trucking, motor vehicle, pharmacy, negligent security and premises liability claims. He has a diverse client base including auto liability insurers, vehicle leasing and rental companies, public utilities, national retailers, national pharmacies, general liability insurers and academic institutions. His firm is consistently retained to represent defendants in both the state and federal courts in the New York City, Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester Counties where the firm has handled over 27,300 cases.

Prior to his work in liability defense, Mr. Connors served as an assistant district attorney. It was there that he honed the litigation skills necessary to handle cases involving issues such as auto, trucking and transportation liability; pharmacy medication errors; co-op, condo and apartment building liability; retail store liability and negligent security; and products liability. He has given CLE presentations to various bar associations on issues including expert witnesses, trial tactics and depositions. 

Committed to the law, both in his practice and outside it, Mr. Connors was appointed in 2014 and reappointed in 2018 by the Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division for the Second Judicial Department to chair the New York State Grievance Committee for the Second, Eleventh & Thirteenth Judicial Districts. In 2019 he was appointed to serve as a member of the Committee on Character and Fitness for the Second, Tenth, Eleventh and Thirteenth Judical Districts. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the Richmond County Bar Association and the Defense Research Institute (DRI) – The Voice of the Defense Bar. He also serves as a director of Northfield Bank, the Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Notre Dame Academy. He previously served as the president of the Richmond County Bar Association, chair of the New York State Bar Association, Trial Lawyers Section, and chair of the Independent Judicial Election Qualification Commission for the Second and Eleventh Judicial Districts.

Mr. Connors also has secured favorable outcomes for clients involved in employment discrimination, labor law and construction site liability claims, and he has successfully defended colleges against claims that include liability for sexual assault and academic and residential discipline liability. In recognition of his legal ethics and success for his clients, Mr. Connors holds the highest rating possible of AV Preeminent* from Martindale-Hubbell.

In 1978, Mr. Connors graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts from Georgetown University. He then earned a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center in 1981.

* 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.