Rosenberg & Gluck LLP

A practice built around injury claims

Personal injury is the whole of the work at Rosenberg & Gluck LLP. The firm represents plaintiffs, the people who were hurt in an accident, and its site says the attorneys handle these claims exclusively. That single focus is worth noting in my opinion, because it tells a prospective client exactly what the firm does on any given working day.

Plaintiff-side injury work puts the firm across the table from insurance companies and the lawyers those companies hire. The client is the person seeking payment for a harm, and the firm's task is to show who was at fault and what the injury is worth. A practice that does only this kind of work meets the same opponents and the same defenses on a regular basis.

The matters the firm names cover most of the common ways a person gets seriously hurt. The list includes car, truck, motorcycle, pedestrian and bicycle accidents. It also covers dog bites, slip and fall claims, construction-site accidents, premises liability, brain injury, nursing home abuse and wrongful death. Each of those carries its own proof and its own body of law.

How these cases tend to run

A car or truck accident claim usually opens with medical treatment and an insurance filing. The injured person makes a claim against the driver at fault, and that driver's insurer answers. Every such claim ends with a question of damages, the money meant to cover medical bills, lost wages, future care and the pain of the injury. The plaintiff carries the burden of proving both fault and loss.

Motorcycle claims follow a similar path, though the injuries are often more severe and fault gets disputed harder. Dog bite cases in New York frequently turn on the animal's known history, so what the owner knew before the bite becomes a live question. Slip and fall and premises claims come down to notice: whether the property owner knew or should have known about a hazard and had a fair chance to fix it.

Within the vehicle claims, the details shift by type. Truck accidents can bring in a trucking company and its insurer alongside the driver, and federal safety rules for commercial vehicles may apply. Pedestrian and bicycle cases tend to pair severe injuries with a much larger vehicle, which raises what is at stake. The firm groups all of these under its accident work.

Slower matters and the shape of a lawsuit

Construction-site injury claims often reach past the injured worker's own employer to the site owner and the general contractor. Brain injury cases lean on medical records and on testimony about long-term effects, since the harm is not always visible on the day of the accident. These are the sort of distinctions a firm that works only on injury law meets case after case.

Nursing home abuse and wrongful death matters run on a slower track. Nursing home cases often turn on staffing records, care plans and state inspection reports. The family or the estate brings a wrongful death claim, and they ask a court to put a value on a loss that has already happened. Cases like these take time, and they reward a firm that has handled them before.

Across these types, an injury lawsuit in New York moves through set stages. It begins with a summons and complaint, then enters discovery, where both sides exchange documents and take depositions. Expert reports on medicine and on fault usually follow. Many cases settle during or after that stage, and the rest head to trial. A firm that files these cases regularly knows where the pressure points sit along that timeline.

Who is on the roster

The attorneys page names seven lawyers, which points to a mid-sized firm. A group that size can spread cases among several lawyers and cover the stages a claim passes through, so a matter can move forward even when one lawyer is in court. Ted Rosenberg and Michael Gluck founded the firm, and a set of partners carries the current work.

Ted Rosenberg is listed as a founding partner, in memoriam. He was a Suffolk County native and began practicing law on Long Island in 1982. Michael Gluck is listed as a founding partner and of counsel, a title that usually marks a senior lawyer who stays tied to the firm without a full partner's caseload. He began his legal career at a New York City firm in 1983. Both men graduated from St. John's University School of Law.

The attorneys page gives names and titles for Matthew H. Bligh, Erin M. Hargis, Michael J. Famiglietti, Gary A. Pagliarello and Paul Devlin. Four of them hold partner rank, which points to a settled structure at the top. The firm says its lawyers hold more than 100 years of combined experience in personal injury work, and it presents that total as one number for the whole group.

Where the firm works and how

Rosenberg & Gluck runs four offices on Long Island. The Practice Areas page lists Garden City first, then Holtsville, Patchogue and Riverhead. Holtsville, the original location, sits in Suffolk County, and Garden City sits in Nassau County, so the offices spread across both counties the firm names.

The firm says it works across Suffolk County, Nassau County and the boroughs of New York City. Long Island runs a long way from the city line out to its east end, so several locations keep a client from a single long drive. Offices in more than one town make it easier for someone to reach a lawyer close to home. Its attorneys appear in both New York State and Federal courts.

The firm handles cases through trial, and it also works through appeal, arbitration and mediation. Arbitration and mediation are ways to resolve a claim without a full jury trial, and most injury cases end in a settlement. A client gains when the same firm can carry a case to a jury if settlement talks break down, and the ability to handle an appeal counts when a trial result gets challenged.

Meeting clients

The firm also offers home and hospital visits for people who cannot travel to an office. Serious crash and fall injuries can keep a person at home or in a bed for weeks, and the offer of a bedside meeting fits that reality. For someone in that position, it is a practical point about access, and it says something about how the firm expects to reach its clients in the early days after an accident.

History and standing

The firm dates to 1996. Ted Rosenberg and Michael Gluck opened it in Holtsville that year, and the structured data published on the site records the same founding date. Close to thirty years on, the firm still carries both founders' names.

Both founders came out of St. John's University School of Law and built their careers in the New York area, one on Long Island from 1982 and one in New York City from 1983. Ted Rosenberg's listing as in memoriam records him as part of the firm's history, while the partners named on the site carry the daily work now.

A firm that reaches its late twenties in one field gathers a store of practical knowledge that a newer firm earns only with time. Local courts, the insurers on the other side and the judges who hear these cases grow familiar. That continuity is part of what the more than 100 years of combined experience is meant to convey.

How to read the firm's record

As a reviewer, I read the combined-experience claim as the firm's central statement about itself: more than 100 years across the group. The founding date, the single practice area and the seven named lawyers all line up with that claim. The firm has kept the same work and the same name since 1996.