Thomas Moore
Senior Partner | Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore, LLP
Thomas Moore is a medical malpractice and personal injury trial lawyer and senior partner at Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore, LLP in New York, New York. J.D., Fordham University School of Law (1972).
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Thomas A. Moore is a senior partner at Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore, LLP (KDLM) in New York, where he represents plaintiffs in medical malpractice and general negligence cases. He serves clients in the five boroughs of New York City, Long Island and Westchester County.
His firm biography says he has won 95 trials with verdicts above $1 million and negotiated settlements exceeding $1 billion. The National Law Journal named him Lawyer of the Year twice, and in 2014 American Legal Media’s Medical Malpractice Hall of Fame included four of his cases among its top 25, two of them the second- and third-largest verdicts in New York history. Verdicts credited to him on the firm’s site include $130 million in a Suffolk County birth injury case, $78 million in a trucking wrongful death case and $45.2 million for a woman struck by a shopping cart thrown from a fourth-floor walkway.
Moore was raised in Waterford, Ireland, and came to the United States at age 17. He earned a Licentiate in Sacred Theology from Catholic University in Washington, D.C., in 1968 and his J.D. from Fordham Law School in 1972. He has funded scholarships at Fordham Law and endowed a chair in Trial Advocacy there, and received Fordham University’s Founder’s Award in 2014.
He writes a regular column for the New York Law Journal with partner Matthew Gaier, and the two have authored textbooks on medical malpractice and trial practice. Moore is a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates, a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, and a member of the International Society of Barristers.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- Catholic University, S.T.L. (1968)
- Fordham University School of Law, J.D. (1972)
Practice Areas
- Inner Circle of Advocates
- American College of Trial Lawyers (Fellow)
- International Academy of Trial Lawyers (Fellow)
- International Society of Barristers
- Super Lawyers Top 10 New York Metro (2006, 2008-2009, 2011, 2016)
- Super Lawyers Top 100 New York Metro (2006-present)
- Best Lawyers in America (1989-present)
- National Law Journal Lawyer of the Year (twice)
- Medical Malpractice Hall of Fame, American Legal Media (2014)
- Fordham University Founder's Award (2014)
- Irish Legal 100 (2014)
- Lawdragon 500 Hall of Fame
- $130 Million Verdict: Suffolk County Supreme Court verdict for a child who suffered catastrophic injuries during birth due to hospital negligence; the firm says the defense had offered $8 million and that the verdict is the second-largest medical malpractice verdict in New York State history.
- $78 Million Verdict: Wrongful death verdict in a commercial truck accident case involving the deaths of a New Jersey father and son.
- $45.2 Million Verdict: Premises liability verdict for a 53-year-old woman with permanent traumatic brain damage after being struck by a shopping cart thrown from a fourth-floor walkway; the firm describes it as one of the largest personal injury verdicts in New York State for 2018.
- $39.5 Million Verdict: Manhattan jury verdict for a former NYU student paralyzed in a 12-foot fall from an unguarded fire escape.
- $32.2 Million Verdict: Manhattan jury verdict for a family whose son was injured in a delivery room birth injury case.
- $19.6 Million Verdict: Verdict for a Queens family in a labor and delivery case in which the baby was born with cerebral palsy due to oxygen deprivation.
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