Edward P. Milstein

Helping New York and New Jersey Injury Victims for Over 40 Years. Education:JD – 1974: Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, New York,BA – 1970: New York University EDWARD P. MILSTEIN was born and raised on the upper west side of Manhattan. He graduated from Ramaz High School in 1966, received his B.A. from New York University in 1970 and graduated with a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1974. Mr. Milstein was admitted to practice law in New York State in 1975 and in New Jersey in 1983. Upon graduation from law school Mr. Milstein joined the law firm of Harry H. Lipsig, undisputedly one of the most accomplished trial lawyers of that time. Mr. Lipsig had the foresight to recognize that medical malpractice litigation, then only in its infancy, would require the practitioner to combine medical knowledge with specific litigation techniques. In 1975 the law firm established a medical malpractice department devoted exclusively to representing patients harmed by physicians and hospital staff in the course of medical care and treatment. Mr. Milstein joined the medical malpractice department and in 1977 was elevated to the head of the department at the age of 28. Over the ensuing sixteen years he chaired the medical malpractice department of the firm, which by 1994 was known as Sullivan and Liapakis, P.C. In those sixteen years the medical malpractice department grew to a ten attorney department. At any given time its caseload varied from 300 to 400 cases. Mr. Milstein’s imprint was on each of them. During his tenure with Sullivan and Liapakis, P.C. Mr. Milstein was involved in more than 3000 cases taking 2500 depositions of medical practitioners in every field of medicine. Mr. Milstein was trial counsel in over 200 trials with 20 verdicts exceeding 1 million dollars over these years. Total settlements and verdicts exceeded half a billion dollars during his 20-year tenure at the Lipsig firm. During these early years Mr. Milstein acquired a wealth of medical knowledge and gained the respect of the medical malpractice defense bar, personnel in medical malpractice insurance companies and judges presiding over the medical malpractice trial parts. Three important constituencies.