Ronald C. Burke
Ronald C. Burke
Mr. Burke joined the firm in 2004 with 20 years experience as a trial lawyer concentrating his practice in the fields of medical malpractice and personal injury. Among his many seven figure verdicts and settlements are cases that have been featured prominently in the news media and legal journals.
Some of Mr. Burke's recent verdicts include a: $5.1 million dollar award in Kings County Supreme Court to a Sanitation worker who suffered knee and back injuries; $3 million award by a Westchester County Supreme Court jury to the estate of a 30 year old single woman in a delay in diagnosis of anal carcinoma. In 2004 Mr. Burke obtained a verdict of $2.8 million dollars for a bank employee with disabling back injuries that was reported by the New York Law Journal as one of the highest verdicts in the State that year for a slip and fall case.
Mr. Burke is a frequent lecturer for the New York County Lawyers Association and has also lectured before the New York State Bar Association.
Active in local affairs, Mr. Burke is a member of the Village of Rockville Centre Volunteer Fire Department and has also served on the local School Board and as Chairman of the local Zoning Board.
He is a member of the New York State Bar Association and New York State Trial Lawyers Association. He has been accorded the highest possible rating of AV by Martindale-Hubbell's® peer review process.
Mr. Burke is admitted to practice law in New York State Courts, The United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York as well as the United States Supreme Court.
More information about Mr. Burke's accomplishments is also available at his personal website.