Long Island Personal Injury Lawyer

Cohen & Jaffe New York Personal Injury Lawyers

If you are in need of a New York | Long Island personal injury lawyer, my name is Richard Jaffe. As Founding Partner at The Law Office of Cohen & Jaffe, LLP, I can assure you that as Long Island, New York’s leading personal injury lawyers, our firm stands apart from other Long Island injury lawyers.

We offer honest and open representation, always keeping your best interest in mind. As talented Long Island personal injury attorneys, we believe in affordability as well as accessibility and have collected millions in compensation for our New York and Long Island clients. Some of the cases we have handled at The Law Office of Cohen & Jaffe include personal injury, medical malpractice, accident and no-fault cases throughout the Long Island, Bronx, Brooklyn, Nassau, Queens, Manhattan and Suffolk. If you have a Long Island injury claim, we are capable of achieving the same exceptional results for you that we have for past clients.

Among others, one award our firm is proud to be the recipient of is being named “Legal Eagle” by Long Island Pulse Magazine; we were also honored to be rated by Super Lawyers as “outstanding injury lawyers.”

If you or your family’s injuries were the result of someone else’s negligence, you have rights. If you or a loved one have been injured and you are in the Long Island | New York area contact us today.

Principles of Our Long Island Personal Injury Firm

There are a few core principles that govern the way we do business and the way we will handle your case:

At The Law Office of Cohen & Jaffe, every client can expect the friendly service of a smaller, locally owned business combined with the honest and knowledgeable advice of a trusted advisor.
As affordable Long Island personal injury and accident lawyers, we choose to offer flat fee arrangements instead of hourly fees. When it comes to Long Island personal injury, accident, medical malpractice and no-fault cases, there is no fee unless you recover for the injuries you sustained.
Our duty as your Nassau and Suffolk county personal injury attorneys is to do what is best for you. As our client, you will always get our honest opinion, often whether you ask for it or not. Through complete and total honesty, cases seem to have a way of working out for the best.
Our clients deserve to be treated as “customers” with the highest level of honesty, confidentiality, respect and compassion.

Personal injury cases, handled personally at our New York and Long Island offices. If you have any questions about our firm or wish to schedule a free consultation, please feel free to contact us directly at RJaffe@lcjLawFirm.com, or 516.358.6900, or stop by our office.

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