A naturally gifted personal injury lawyer, Benedict Morelli has unabashed empathy for his client's suffering and his showmanship never fails to connect with the jury. Usually, personal injury cases, hours spent listening to dry medical terminology bores jurors, however, Morelli's oration, constant moving about the courtroom and sweeping gestures never fails to keep them enthralled.
Morelli's Early Years
When he started out at as a law clerk at Dinkes, Mandel & Dinkes in 1973, no one imagined that Benedict Morelli, the product of a working-class background, would become one of the country's leading personal-injury lawyers nor imagined that Best Lawyers in America would include Morelli in every edition since 1977. He never finished law school, instead, he took the rare route of clerking for the bar. He vowed to become a senior partner at the Dinkes, Mandel & Dinkes , which he accomplished by becoming one of the best trial lawyer in New York. Today, Morelli, who has his own firm, Morelli Law Firm, is in such demand that his clients practically have to sell themselves to him in order to have him represent them.
Record Verdicts
Benedict Morelli is famous for not only winning cases, but winning the largest settlements on record. He won the largest medical malpractice verdict for blindness in one eye and the largest vaccine verdict on record. He's also won the largest sexual harassment verdict where there was a single plaintiff.
Morelli's Style
Morelli never shies away from difficult cases, he takes on major corporations because he believes innocent consumers deserve a voice. As a seasoned trial lawyer, he is not afraid of going to court if he cannot broker a settlement, however, he receives the settlement he asks for in most cases since the other side is usually intimidated by his reputation. Currently, his firm focuses on high-profile mass litigation.
