Robert S. Kelner

Attorney Robert S. Kelner is a founding partner of Kelner and Kelner in New York, New York.  He handles matters involving a wide scope of personal injury litigation including motor vehicle accidents, commercial vehicle accidents, construction site accidents and wrongful death. Over the course of his career, Mr. Kelner has recovered at least 300 verdicts and settlements $1 million or more. Mr. Kelner has lectured and written extensively on personal injury topics. He is the co-author of the Trial Practice column in the New York Law Journal column with Gail Kelner. He is the Chair of the New York County Lawyers’ Civil Trial Practice Institute and he has chaired and spoken at its Civil Trial Practice Program for more than a decade. He has obtained verdicts of over $40 million in a motor vehicle wrongful death case, $36 million in a paralysis case against the New York City Transit Authority and $23 million in a motorcycle spinal injury case. He has appeared on CBS, NBC, MSNBC, ABC, CNN and the BBC. He has been quoted in every newspaper in the New York area and the New York Times wrote a Public Lives column about him. He graduated from Columbia Law School, where he frequently lectures on Trial Practice and Tort Law.