William Hepner

Background

William P. Hepner is a Partner at Wingate, Russotti, Shapiro, Moses & Halperin, LLP, a trial lawyer who has tried and litigated numerous automobile, premises, medical malpractice, and construction accident cases. Hepner earned his Juris Doctor from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 1991, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Cardozo New Europe Law Review. He earned his Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from the State University of New York at Albany in 1983. He is admitted to the New York State Bar and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York. Hepner joined the firm in 1998 and serves as a Small Claims Court Arbitrator in Manhattan. His honors include Super Lawyers (2012-2017, 2020-2022), Top 10 Personal Injury Settlements (2018) by Top Verdict, and 10 Best Attorney (2019) by the American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys. His notable settlements include $5.75M for a falling beam construction injury and $4.5M for a construction worker wrongful death from heat stroke.

Notable cases

• —$5.8M

  Falling beam construction injury

• —$4.5M

  Construction worker wrongful death (heat stroke)

• —$4.5M

  Excavator fatality settlement

• —$3.8M

  Demolition laborer injury

• —$3.6M

  Professional malpractice/defective design

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