Some attorneys prepare for trial when a trial date is set. Andrew Laskin prepares for trial the moment he hears about the case. That instinct, to treat every file like a verdict is three weeks away, is what separates him. While opposing counsel is still exchanging pleasantries, Mr. Laskin is already deep in the medicine, the engineering, the timeline, the liability theory. By the time adversaries realize the caliber of who they’re up against, he’s already three steps ahead.
This is a lawyer built for the moments when clients have nowhere else to turn. The construction worker who fell. The family blindsided by a catastrophic medical error. The person whose rights were violated by someone who thought there would be no consequences. Mr. Laskin is at his best precisely when his clients are at their worst, and they know it. In the middle of the worst experience of their lives, they have someone in their corner who is completely, relentlessly prepared.
His foundation is unique. He began his legal career litigating on behalf of one of the largest institutional defendants in the country, which gave him something most plaintiff’s attorneys never acquire: a firsthand understanding of how the defense constructs its case. He has spent the decades since dismantling those constructions on behalf of the people the system was designed to overlook.
Across more than 30 years of practice, Mr. Laskin has tried complex, high-stakes cases in New York State and federal courts covering construction accidents, catastrophic personal injury, products liability, civil rights, and medical malpractice. He is not a lawyer who settles because it is easier. He is a lawyer who settles when it is right, and tries cases when it is necessary, and he is exceptionally good at both.
A graduate of Hofstra University School of Law (1992), Mr. Laskin is admitted to practice in New York and Connecticut, and in the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Districts of New York and the U.S. Court of International Trade. He has contributed to legal scholarship on the intersection of psychiatry and malpractice law, and he is continuously sharpening the skills his adversaries have already come to respect.
