Robert J. Genis, Esq.
ROBERT J. GENIS, ESQ.
Robert J. Genis is a senior and founding partner in the law firm of SONIN & GENIS, ESQS. Mr. Genis is a trial attorney specializing in plaintiffs negligence, personal injury, wrongful death, medical malpractice and products liability cases in the State and Federal Courts of New York and New Jersey, and has litigated cases in a number of other states. Mr. Genis has obtained numerous multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements, is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and was inducted into the Super Lawyers.
He has successfully represented numerous victims of negligence, medical malpractice, lead poisoning, police brutality and false arrest, construction accidents, premises and vehicular accidents, elevators/escalators accidents, municipal wrongdoing, and other significant injuries. Some of his note-worthy verdicts include: a $ 10 million dollar verdict for the wrongful death of a man caused by inadequate security; an $ 8 million verdict for a man that slipped and fell on pigeon poop on a staircase of an elevated subway station for an aggravation of a pre-existing spinal condition, a $ 6.5 million verdict in a wrongful death case on behalf of a chronic alcoholic on welfare who at the time of her slip & fall had a .316 BAC level (no comparative negligence), her daughter (the plaintiff) was a methadone addict on welfare, and a $ 3 million verdict for an aggravation of a soft tissue condition in a man involved in a car accident, where the man was unemployed and permanently disabled at the time of his accident; a $ 2.5 million settlement in a medical malpractice; a verdict in excess of $ 2.4 for a chiropractor that sustained an injury to her neck in a hotel; a verdict in excess of $ 2 million for a pedestrian hit by a police car; a verdict for $ 1.5 million in a medical malpractice case; a verdict for $ 2 million against the City of New York for a bicyclist injured due to a pothole; $ 1.75 million verdict for a bicyclist injured on ice; a settlement for $ 1.5 million for a worker that sustained an electric shock; a verdict for $ 1.35 million to a woman that broke her wrist in a subway station; a settlement for $ 1.125 million in a wrongful death caused by EMS’s delay in responding to a call to “911”. He received national attention on behalf of Teron Francis, who became brain damaged and on life support as a result of medical malpractice.
In addition to trying cases, Mr. Genis is a past Associate Editor of the National Trial Lawyer magazine and Past Editor in Chief of the Bronx Bar Journal, The Advocate, and has been published in those journals as well as the New York Law Journal, where he has been a frequent contributor, as well as the New York State Trial Lawyers Quarterly, New York State Trial Lawyers Bill of Particulars, the Queens Bar Journal and the Insurance, Negligence and Compensation Law Section Journal of the New York State Bar Association. Some of his articles have been cited in McKinney’s and other treatises.
Mr. Genis is a long time Director of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, Past Vice President of the Jewish Lawyers Guild, a past Director of the Bronx County and the Bronx Women’s Bar Associations, and a past Secretary of the Tort Litigation Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He has served on the Judicial Screening Committees of various bar associations and the Independent Democratic Screening Committee.
Mr. Genis has lectured Chaired and moderated numerous CLE programs and has lectured extensively for the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, has Chaired its annual Evidence Seminar and taught at its Decisions Seminar for many years, and has also lectured for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Bronx County Bar Association and the Bronx Women’s Bar Association, on numerous topics.
Mr. Genis has handled numerous high profile cases that have attracted national and international media attention on TV, radio, newspapers and the internet.
Mr. Genis is a graduate of the Syracuse University College of Law. www.soningenis.com
