Our team

Meet Our Attorneys

Clients can be assured they will not be turned over to an associate; a partner works with them directly throughout their case.

Our team

The attorneys who will handle your case

Between them, the partners bring more than 125 years of experience trying personal injury cases in New York.

  • Michael E. Bergman, Esq.

    Michael E. Bergman, Esq.

    Co-Founder and Partner

    Focuses on motor vehicle negligence, construction accidents, slip/trip and fall, wrongful death, medical malpractice and product liability. Over the past 20 years he has litigated thousands of personal injury cases and personally negotiated over $150 million for his injured clients. Serves as Chief Counsel to the Board of Directors of the Police Surgeons Benevolent Association.

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  • Eric J. Lamonsoff, Esq.

    Eric J. Lamonsoff, Esq.

    Co-Founder and Partner

    Has represented injured people for three decades in motor vehicle negligence, slip/trip and fall, wrongful death, medical malpractice and product liability. He came to this work as a client first: badly hurt in a car accident in college, hospitalized for a week and out of school and work for months.

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  • Seth I. Fields, Esq.

    Seth I. Fields, Esq.

    Partner, Trial Attorney

    Began his career clerking for Supreme Court Justice Ira B. Warshawsky and Federal Court Justice Arthur D. Spatt. Honored by the New York Law Journal for a Top 100 Verdict for the State of New York in two consecutive years, and a guest speaker to colleagues on trial advocacy and jury selection.

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  • Amit Sondhi, Esq.

    Amit Sondhi, Esq.

    Attorney

    Graduated at the top of his class at Touro Law School and clerked for a Federal Magistrate Judge in the Eastern District of New York. Having previously defended injury claims, he knows the strategies insurers use — and achieved one of the top 35 automobile accident verdicts in Westchester County in 2017.

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  • Clifford Gabel, Esq.

    Clifford Gabel, Esq.

    Associate Attorney

    Admitted since 1993 and fluent in Spanish. Handles police liability, civil rights, construction accidents, motor vehicle accidents and premises liability, and is a skilled trial lawyer, legal writer and appellate advocate.

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  • Melissa Cavaliere, Esq.

    Melissa Cavaliere, Esq.

    Associate Attorney

    Joined the firm in 2020 after more than a decade as a general civil litigator, handling all aspects of litigation through appeals in State and Federal Court. Sits on the executive board of the Queens Women's Bar and has served as a delegate to the Women's Bar of the State of New York.

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  • Marvin Bergman, Esq.

    Founder

    Started the practice in Jamaica, Queens in 1957 and has practiced personal injury law for more than 60 years, recovering tens of millions of dollars for his clients. There is no substitute for experience; he imparts his to the firm's present partners and staff.

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