Russ Berkowitz

Berkowitz and Hanna LLC

Russ Berkowitz Personal Injury Lawyer

Berkowitz and Hanna LLC

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Russ Berkowitz is the firm’s founding partner and is widely known as one of the leading medical malpractice and personal injury attorneys in Connecticut, obtaining over $370 million in medical malpractice and personal injury damage awards on behalf of his clients over the course of his career. Russ has represented adults and children who have sustained catastrophic birth injuries, brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, surgical injuries, anesthesia injuries, hospital injuries, amputation injuries, drug overdose injuries, wrongful death, and other life-altering medical malpractice and personal injuries. His representation has helped effectuate changes to the policies and procedures of various medical departments at healthcare institutions and medical groups throughout Connecticut.

Russ is Board Certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and was voted as one of the Best Lawyers in America in the field of Medical Malpractice by US News and World Reports. He is also a Fellow in the Connecticut Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates, a Fellow in the American Academy of Medical Malpractice Lawyers, and a member of the National Trial Lawyers Top 25 in the field of Medical Malpractice. In addition, Russ has been voted as a Super Lawyer by Connecticut Magazine and New England Super Lawyers Magazine in the field of medical malpractice every year since each list has been published.

Russ is also a member of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, where he serves on its Board of Governors and Medical Malpractice Committee. Over the years, he has lectured at numerous seminars on a wide range of medical malpractice topics and mediation/arbitration in medical malpractice cases to members of the CTLA. He is a member of the American Bar Association, Connecticut Bar Association, Fairfield County Regional Bar Association, Roscoe Pound Foundation, American Trial Counsel, and Million Dollar Advocates Forum. He is the founder and Trustee of Berkowitz and Hanna Charitable Fund, which partners with many non-profit organizations that support adults and children with physical and mental disabilities and women and children at risk. Russ is also the founder of Across the Globe Children’s Foundation, which partners with organizations that provide support to underprivileged children in Connecticut and builds homes, schools, libraries, and clean water and sanitation systems in impoverished villages throughout Honduras, Guatemala, Haiti, El Salvador, Mexico, Bolivia, Ghana, and Laos.