KENNETH J. HALPERIN"The effectiveness of my partnership with my client allows me to prepare each case in accordance with its own unique set of facts and circumstances. It is only through this partnership that the injured people whom I represent are able to be compensated fairly and adequately for the pain and suffering that they have endured." Ken graduated cum laude from the University of Albany in 1989. A 1992 graduate of Brooklyn Law School, Ken is a trial attorney with the firm. He handles a wide variety of cases in the areas of general negligence, automobile liability and construction law. As a trial attorney, Mr. Halperin is responsible not only for the litigation aspects of the case, but also the day to day management of the cases that he is involved with. His primary goal, and that of the firm, is to work closely with all of our clients on their cases from inception through settlement or trial. Ken's professional memberships include the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, New York State Trial Lawyers Association and Association of the Bar of the City of New York where he is a member of the Committee on Judicial Administration. Ken also does significant pro bono work representing low-income tenants. Ken In the NewsClick here for a video of Ken Halperin on ABCnews.com representing his client Louro Ortega in a construction accident case. Click here for a link to Ken Halperin as quoted in ABCnews.com on the Deutsche Bank Fire. Click here for a link to Ken Halperin as quoted in the Village Voice regarding medical malpractice. Builder may face slay rap in hardhat death BY SCOTT SHIFREL A building contractor is facing possible murder charges on Wednesday for a Brooklyn construction accident that killed a worker and injured another in March when a foundation wall collapsed. "I think maybe it will be manslaughter," contractor William Lattarulo said Tuesday as he prepared to surrender to prosecutors this morning. Lattarulo, 63, blamed heavy rains and said he tried to warn workers in the March 12 collapse in East New York that killed worker Louro Ortega of Queens. Authorities fined Lattarulo and indicated shoddy construction caused the collapse, which occurred just three days before the E. 51st St. crane crash that killed seven people in Manhattan. Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes' office has been investigating Lattarulo, and today's charges against the builder are noteworthy at a time when a construction boom has led to a spate of accidents across the city. "They're just looking for someone to blame for all this," he said, referring to the other accidents. "They're going to make me pay." He described the 30-year-old Ortega, a married father of two, as "a nice kid." "I don't think I killed that kid," he said. "If I thought I did something wrong, I wouldn't fight it." Lattarulo, of Malverne, L.I., owns both the house next to the 795 Glenmore Ave. site and five adjacent lots. He has been cited for numerous code violations, authorities said, including working with an expired permit. Lattarulo was planning to build a commercial laundry at the site, according to Ortega family lawyer Kenneth Halperin, who is preparing for a possible lawsuit. "They failed to make sure the foundation wall was stable," Halperin said. "No one checked it, no one did anything," he said. "This never should have happened, there's no reason someone should have died." Ortega had been on the job just two days and was partially buried by rubble in the collapse. Prosecutors, who are expected to announce the charges this afternoon, declined to comment and buildings officials said the investigation is ongoing. Contractor admits role in death of a worker Tuesday, February 06, 2007 STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- In an apparent precedent on Staten Island, a well-regarded North Shore builder pleaded guilty yesterday to criminally negligent homicide stemming from the death of one of his workers, buried three years ago in a trench collapse at a West Brighton job site. Kenneth Formica's felony plea in state Supreme Court, St. George, in connection with the death of Lorenzo Pavia, 39, on Dec. 15, 2003, marks the first time in recent history that a Staten Island contractor was found criminally liable for the death of a worker, sources said. Ken Halperin's Verdicts & Settlements Include:
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