Menkes Law Firm

Menkes has served as an attorney and the owner of Menkes Law Firm in New York City. Menkes specializes in prosecuting cases that involve nursing home abuse and neglect, an area she became passionate about as a result of her own mother’s mistreatment in a nursing home. Menkes has also achieved exceptional verdicts and settlements for her clients involving medical malpractice, injured workers, and f

alls down stairways, in addition to motor vehicle accidents. Menkes is able to give each case in her firm the attention it deserves so that her clients will get full justice by imposing strict limits on her caseload. Menkes to maintain a familial atmosphere with her clients within her highly esteemed firm. Menkes obtained a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Case Western Reserve University in 1972 and a Master of Business Administration from Baruch College in 1984 after which she spent several years working in advertising and marketing while teaching business arithmetic at Washington Irving Night High School in New York
City. In 1989, Ms Menkes completed a Doctor of Jurisprudence at Brooklyn Law School. She completed her education in 1992, at which point she obtained a Master of Laws from New York University School of Law. Her professional accomplishments include membership on the Board of Directors of New York State Trial Lawyers Institute where she also conducted a seminar for other attorneys on prosecuting Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Cases; membership in Kings County Inns of the Court where she lectured to attorneys and judges on various topics; membership in the New York Womens’ Bar Association where she is a member of the Solo Practice Committee; and membership in the American Association of Justice and New York Lawyers Nursing Abuse and Neglect Litigation Groups. Since the establishment of her law firm, Ms. Menkes has secured multimillion-dollar settlements for a myriad of clients. Her very first trial was published in the Daily News for a $3+ million verdict for a city worker who injured his thumb in a bathroom as a result of the building owner's negligence. She achieved a multimillion dollar settlement for the mother of a nineteen year old son, who died from undiagnosed Meningitis after seeking treatment in the emergency department of a City Hospital. Menkes obtained a settlement for an injured construction worker in excess of $8 million. In 2017, she achieved one of the top ten jury verdicts in the entire state
of New York for a client who fell down a flight of steps in a store. In 2002, Ms Menkes made law in a case she handled through appeal titled James v. NYCTA, 294 A.D 2d 476 (2nd Dept 2002). In that year she was recognized in Swathmore’s Whose Who in American Women. Menkes has never lost any of her clients’ cases. She attributes a great deal of her success to her never ending fight to get her clients the justice they deserve. In the coming years, she hopes to effect legislation that improves the life of patients in nursing homes. Her law firm’s motto is: The small law firm with a big heart…and big settlements.