John D. Zaremba

John is a litigator focused on construction accidents and catastrophic personal injury cases. He was recognized by his peers by being selected to Super Lawyers and was featured on New York magazine’s annual list of Top Personal Injury Litigators and in the New York Law Journal’s section on “Top Verdicts and Settlements” for each of the past ten years. He is also holds the position of President elect of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and is a trustee or Lawpac. Mr. Zaremba teaches the litigation of construction site accidents, chairs a CLE course on construction accident litigation for the NYSTLI, is a vice chair of NYSTLA’s Labor Law committee, and is also a published author with articles featured in the New York Law Journal and The Legal Intelligencer. He has sat on the Court of Appeals Judicial Screening Panel for the New York State Trial Lawyers Association.  John has negotiated more than five hundred millions of dollars in settlements for his Union affiliated clients and lectures extensively at local union halls around the five boroughs.

Some of Zaremba’s representative matters include:

• $23,394,775 settlement as co-lead plaintiff’s counsel in a multi-district consumer fraud action
• $11,500,000 for a union carpenter who sustained serious injuries when he fell off a ladder.
• $9,600,000 for a pair of union laborers struck by a falling object.
• $9,000,000 for a union laborer who fell thorough a hole and fractured his leg.
• $8,943,143 settlement in a complex medical malpractice case where the defendant's negligence led to our client’s wrongful death
• $8,450,000 for a union sheetmetal worker who was injured while cutting a duct on a ladde
• $7,500,000 for a union carpenter who fell from a baler scaffold.
• $6,500,000 settlement for a union sheetmetal worker that was hit with a falling tool and underwent surgeries to his neck and back
• $6,000,000 for a union laborer who fell from a ladder.
• $5,600,000 for a union plasterer who fell into an uncovered opening.
• $5,500,000 for a union laborer with spinal injuries
• $5.000.000 for a union carpenter with exacerbation to prior injuries.
• $4,750,000 for a union sheet metal worker hurt when a duct fell.
• $4,620,000 settlement for a union laborer who was injured when he fell through an unsecured portion of a roof under demolition
• $4,500,000 settlement for a union member with a spinal injures.
• $4,000,000 settlement for a union laborer with a lower back injury.

Mr Zaremba's publications include:

• ‘O’Brien’ Reaffirms Decades of Law Protecting Workers – New York Law Journal
• Pre-Mediation Discussions Maximize Chances of Successful Settlement – New York Law Journal
• John Zaremba Wins Big for Construction Workers – Labor Press
• Pre-Mediation Discussions Maximize Chances of Successful Settlement – The Legal Intelligencer

Before founding the firm, Zaremba practiced in a large international law firm, in their New York office, where he defended actions involving construction accidents, professional malpractice, products liability, and toxic tort.

His educational background includes graduating cum laude from Drew University, where he lettered in varsity baseball. He received his Juris Doctor degree from the prestigious Fordham University School of Law in Lincoln Center. Zaremba was admitted to the New York State Bar and subsequently admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts.

Zaremba frequently lectures on safety and construction accidents and has taught multiple shop steward classes about accidents and injuries at several Construction Trade Unions in New York. He also lectures about job site safety at NYC building trade locals. The members of the New York City District Council of Carpenters, Laborers Local 20, Laborers Local 6A, IAM 15, Sheet Metal Workers Local 28, Laborers Local 79, Operative Plasters Local 262, TWU 101, Sheet Metal Workers Local 137, Cement Masons Local 780, and IBEW Local 3 are his clients - and he considers them his friends.