Stavros Sitinas
Founder/Principal | Stavros E. Sitinas, LLC
Stavros Sitinas is a construction accidents, automotive accidents and product liability trial lawyer and founder/principal of Stavros E. Sitinas, LLC in New York, New York. Admitted in New York; J.D., Quinnipiac University School of Law (1996).
Meet Stavros
Stavros E. Sitinas is the founder of Stavros E. Sitinas, LLC in New York City, a firm focused exclusively on plaintiff’s personal injury litigation, including construction accidents, automotive accidents, product liability and wrongful death cases.
Sitinas graduated from Quinnipiac College School of Law in 1996 and was admitted to the New York bar in 1997. He spent nine years with a prominent New York City personal injury firm, becoming a partner in 2005, before founding his own firm in 2010. He is described on the firm’s website as a litigator who welcomes taking cases to trial.
His results include a $15 million settlement for a construction worker paralyzed in a 2015 case. He is an inductee of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and has been named to New York Super Lawyers every year since 2012.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- Admitted to the New York Bar, 1997
- Admitted to all State Courts of New York and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York
- Juris Doctor, Quinnipiac College School of Law, 1996
- Bachelor's degree in marketing, Boston University
- National Institute of Trial Advocacy
Practice Areas
- New York State Trial Lawyers Association
- Hellenic Lawyers Association
- Million Dollar Advocates Forum (Inductee)
- New York Super Lawyers, selected every year since 2012
- Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Inductee
- $15,000,000 Settlement, Construction Accident: Settlement for a 26-year-old construction worker paralyzed when a bucket of debris fell six stories; the firm states it was the largest non-medical malpractice settlement in New York State for 2015.
- $14,500,000 Verdict, Intentional Torts: Jury verdict after a six-week trial in which Sitinas served as co-trial counsel on counterclaims for intentional infliction of emotional distress and rape.
- $5,450,000 Settlement, Construction Accident: Settlement for a 57-year-old hoist operator injured when a hoist struck a spool of electrical wire at a Manhattan high-rise site.
- $3,700,000 Confidential Settlement, Premises Liability: Settlement for a college student badly burned by scalding water in a dormitory shower.
- $3,000,000 Settlement, Construction Accident: Settlement for a construction worker who injured his lower back hoisting heavy metal bars by rope up a six-story building.
- $2,800,000 Settlement, Auto Accident: Settlement during trial for a client injured in a three-car rear-end collision.
- $2,235,000 Settlement, Construction Accident: Settlement for a 61-year-old land surveyor run over by a truck at a Whitestone Bridge job site.
- $1,900,000 Recovery, Construction Accident: Recovery for a 51-year-old man who fell 25 feet through an unsecured plywood opening in a home under construction.
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