Results
Brett Klein is a renowned civil rights lawyer and expert, frequently tapped for interviews by major news outlets. He achieves headline-worthy results for his clients.
Sample results:
$13,250,000 settlement for victim of wrongful police shooting.
Co-counsel in successful proceedings to vacate a 25-year wrongful conviction, and in a resulting $100,000,000 claim for compensation under New York’s unjust conviction law.
$11,000,000 jury verdict for a 27-year-old motorist who suffered an injury to his cervical spine resulting in permanent neurological dysfunction and impairments when he was shot by a law enforcement officer during a traffic stop.
$1,800,000 jury verdict in Brooklyn Supreme Court for a man who was falsely imprisoned by Home Depot security.
$1,500,000 settlement for a man who spent 17 days on Rikers Island after being falsely accused of shooting at NYPD officers in Brooklyn.
$1,850,000 settlement to the mother of an autistic man who died after police tased, pepper-sprayed, and lay on top of him while he was handcuffed.
$1,500,000 settlement for man who spent 5 years on Rikers Island before he was acquitted of all charges.
$1,000,000 for man who spent two days in NYPD custody falsely accused by NYPD and DOE officials of sexual assault on a student.
$250,000 jury verdict against Suffolk County for its failure to protect a prisoner from an attack by other prisoners, resulting in a fractured ankle.
$1,500,000 settlement for the estate of a Staten Island man who was not under arrest, but was subjected to excessive force and died, when NYPD officers held him in a face down position for 30 minutes.
Favorable jury verdict for a woman violently arrested on NY parkway. Full story
$625,000 settlement for a client who was kicked in the eye and falsely arrested, resulting in an orbital fracture and unjustly spending a day in police custody.
$325,000 for a client who was subjected to excessive force when police officers pushed their knees in his back and slammed his face to the ground.
$975,000 settlement for a client who lost an eye after being kicked by an NYPD sergeant.
$800,000 settlement for a client who was falsely arrested and struck in the face with a metal baton, which caused a broken jaw and a traumatic brain injury.
$150,000 jury verdict for a client who was detained for 45 minutes and issued a baseless summons for disorderly conduct. Jury findings were based on loss of liberty and emotional distress. Full Story
$300,000 verdict by a judge in federal court for emotional distress for a woman who was detained for 15 minutes by armed agents while her home was searched, based on mistaken information.
$40,000 jury verdict against the City of Yonkers and a number of police offers in federal court in White Plains for a man who was punched in the eye by a police officer.
$240,000 settlement for a Staten Island man who was kicked in the eye by an NYPD officer. He suffered a ruptured globe.
$300,000 settlement for a man who suffered a broken elbow after police pulled his legs out from under him while he was handcuffed.
$280,000 settlement for a man who was falsely arrested and suffered a broken nose when an officer hit him in the face with handcuffs.
$285,000 settlement for a mother and son who were falsely arrested for unlawful eviction of a tenant and were detained for 15 hours each before the Staten Island DA declined to prosecute.
$400,000 settlement for a paraplegic inmate who suffered an inferior pubic ramus fracture during transport from court to Rikers Island because he was improperly secured inside a DOC transport van.
$225,000 settlement for “deliberate indifference” to a prisoner with mental health problems. DOC repeatedly ignored his medial condition, resulting in multiple suicide attempts.
$200,000 settlement for a high school administrator who was kicked in the eye by a NYPD officer on Staten Island, causing an orbital fracture.
$150,000 settlement for a 14 year-old from Staten Island who was forced by police officers to remove his clothes and left alone in a desolate area. Full Story
$150,000 settlement for two women who were inappropriately photographed by a NYPD detective. Full Story
$30,000 settlement for two men who were unlawfully strip-searched in public and falsely arrested by the NYPD officer who put Eric Garner in a choke hold.
CNN Interview in the aftermath of Eric Garner choke hold case …