Benedict P. Morelli

Benedict Morelli began his career in 1973 as a law clerk in a personal injury law firm, becoming eligible for the bar exam in 1977. After being admitted to the New York State Bar, he eventually became the senior partner of that firm. In June 1998, Mr. Morelli dissolved his firm and started Benedict P. Morelli & Associates, which later became Morelli Law Firm. Mr. Morelli studied law at New York Law School and is admitted before the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, Western, and Northern districts of New York, and the courts of the State of New York. Mr. Morelli represents clients in various types of personal injury cases, including auto accidents, truck accidents premises, labor law/construction accidents, as well as employment discrimination, complex products liability, drug product liability, false arrests, and civil rights. In each of these areas, Mr. Morelli has received multi-million dollar verdicts. He represents individual plaintiffs against many major corporations, including Wal-Mart, MGM, Live Nation Worldwide, FedEx, and PepsiCo, among many others. For over thirty-five years of trying cases, Mr. Morelli has received numerous multi-million dollar verdicts. In 1995, his $40 million verdict was featured in the National Law Journal as one of the “Top Ten Verdicts” in the United States. He has tried every kind of civil case – from a person who tripped and fell over a raised door saddle and broke his hip ($2.6 million – the largest verdict in the country for that injury) to complex medical malpractice cases (the largest verdict in the country for blindness in one eye). He has attained the largest verdict for a loss of three fingers (medical malpractice) and the largest verdict for a crush injury to the arm.