Ruth Bernstein is a trial attorney practicing in New York City. She engages in the practice of general negligence and medical malpractice litigation, specializing in cases involving traumatic brain injury and psychological injuries. Ms. Bernstein also represents victims of job-related discrimination, including sexual harassment and civil rights violations.
Ms. Bernstein has been a trial attorney for fourteen years. She has been featured on news reports in connection with cases involving a patient who was sexually abused by her psychiatrist, and police recruits unfairly denied employment due to faulty drug testing procedures.
Ms. Bernstein has been on the American Association for Justice Board of Governors for six years, and served on year on the Executive Committee of that organization. She was also elected chair of the Women's Trial Lawyers Caucus and the Small Office Practice Section. Ms. Bernstein also served four years on the Board of Directors for the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, and was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers. She lobbies every year in Washington and Albany on behalf of consumer rights and protection of the civil justice system.
Ms. Bernstein was born in Brooklyn, New York, into a legal family. She is a third-generation attorney whose father, now retired, was a well-respected Justice of the New York State Supreme Court for 30 years.
Before becoming an attorney, Ms. Bernstein pursued a successful career in broadcast journalism. She did investigative reporting for the team led by Arnold Diaz, then at WCBS-TV in New York City, and also worked as a producer at WPIX-TV. Ms. Bernstein eventually left New York City to become an on-air TV personality she was an anchorwoman and reporter for local television stations within the ABC Network system for five years.
Ms. Bernstein returned to New York City in 1987 to attend Brooklyn Law School, and graduated in 1990. She wrote for the Brooklyn Law Review and won honors in the field of Federal Court Jurisdiction. After two years of practice with the prominent law firm, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, and a year with the well-known medical malpractice and products liability litigation firm Edelman & Edelman, Ms. Bernstein boldly decided to leave big-firm practice and open her own firm. She values her work, grateful for the opportunity to help injured people and their families obtain justice.
