Gissendanner, Elton J. (Buddy)

Mr. Reibman believes that it is his mission as an attorney to represent people who are the victims of accidents and medical malpractice and people who have had their civil rights violated by being falsely arrested or brutalized by the police. Mr. Reibman represents his clients against large corporations, usually insurance companies, and the New York City Police Department. (Insurance companies are the real defendants in accident and malpractice cases since they pay settlements or judgments obtained against drivers, doctors and other defendants). Mr. Reibman is a 1982 graduate of the Boston University School of Law. He began practicing law with the well known New York firm of Costello & Shea where he handled medical malpractice, product liability and admiralty cases. In 1986, Mr. Reibman started his own firm so that he could concentrate on representing personal injury victims and people who have had their civil rights violated by the police. Mr. Reibman represents many different kinds of injury victims including the victims of catastrophic motor vehicle accidents, construction site accidents, slip, trip, and fall accidents, medical malpractice, and defective products. Mr. Reibman has tried numerous cases where the jury reached a verdict in excess of a million dollars and has the largest verdict in New York State for a short duration of pain and suffering. ($10,500,000.00 for two and a half minutes of suffering in an elevator death case). Since 1993 Mr. Reibman has practiced in partnership with Steven M. Weiner who is a medical doctor as well as an attorney. Mr. Reibman is proud that after 30 years of practicing law many of his clients are “word of mouth” referrals from clients whom he represented successfully in the past.