Judith Livingston

Judith A. Livingston is a senior partner at Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore, LLP (KDLM) in New York, where she represents plaintiffs in medical malpractice and personal injury cases. She has been a partner at the firm since 1989 and serves clients in the five boroughs of New York City, Long Island and Westchester County.

Her firm biography says she has won 37 trials with verdicts above $1 million and negotiated settlements totaling almost a half-billion dollars for clients. Recent verdicts listed on the firm’s site include $31 million from a Bronx jury in a wrongful death case involving the wrong heart procedure, $13 million from a Suffolk County jury over delayed treatment of an infected gallbladder, $13 million from a Manhattan jury after a bowel perforation during a colon procedure, and $7 million from a Westchester jury in a pancreatitis misdiagnosis case.

Livingston graduated from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1976 and from Hofstra University School of Law in 1979, and was admitted to the New York bar that year. Hofstra inducted her into its law school Hall of Fame in 2022. She was the first woman invited into the Inner Circle of Advocates and served as its president in 2022. She is a fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and sits on the board of directors of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association.

Best Lawyers named her New York Medical Malpractice Lawyer of the Year in 2011 and 2013, and she has been listed in Best Lawyers in America since 1993. She is a board member and past president of Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert.