Philip Russotti
VerifiedAbout Philip Russotti
Philip Russotti is a Partner at Wingate, Russotti, Shapiro, Moses & Halperin, LLP, responsible for all trials at the firm and overseeing the trial attorneys' strategy and preparation.
Russotti earned his Juris Doctor from St. John's University School of Law and his Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University. He is admitted to the New York State Bar and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.
With approximately 45 years of experience, Russotti served as an Assistant District Attorney until 1980 before entering private practice. He is a Board Certified Civil Trial Specialist with notable verdicts including $18 million for a construction worker injured by a defective scaffold and $17.5 million for a police shooting victim (October 2003). He has been recognized as a Super Lawyer (2007-2022), holds an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, and is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum.
Notable case results
A Queens County jury awarded $10.7 million to Candida Diego after finding that New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens failed to timely perform a CT scan on a woman who arrived with a skull fracture, allowing a brain herniation to progress until she lapsed into a coma.
A teenager vacationing in Hawaii developed steroid-induced paralysis after her lupus was treated with high-dose IV pulse therapy; Philip Russotti obtained a $4.25 million retrial verdict after the original $6.15 million award was vacated on appeal.
Construction worker injured by defective scaffold verdict
Police shooting victim verdict
Two brain damage medical malpractice settlements (combined)
Construction worker fall from ladder verdict
Infant brain damage from undiagnosed herpes settlement
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
