Robert Solomon

Attorney Robert A. Solomon was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated cum laude from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1977. He returned to New Jersey upon his graduation from Drake University School of Law in 1979. Robert was admitted to practice law before the State Courts of New York as well as the United States District Courts of the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York in 1980. He was admitted to practice law before the State Courts of New Jersey and the United States District Court of New Jersey in 1982. He is a sustaining member of the American Association for Justice f/k/a Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

Robert began building a personal injury practice upon his admission to the New York bar. He began handling personal injury and wrongful death cases exclusively in 1985. In a wrongful death action that stemmed from an explosion at an oil terminal in Port Reading, New Jersey, Robert represented the widow and children of a welder who suffered burns covering 87 percent of his body when the pipeline he was welding exploded. Robert obtained a settlement in the case that paid the widow and three children a total of $2.5 million in damages.

Following the crash of Avianca Airlines flight 052 near Kennedy Airport, Robert filed the first lawsuit against the airline and the United States Air Traffic Controllers. The Columbian textile worker who sustained a fractured left forearm, a broken left knee, back injuries and numerous lacerations received $1,575,000 in damages. The worker’s 2 year old son, who sustained minor physical injuries along with emotional problems as a result of the disaster received $175,000 in damages.

Robert championed the cause of a 40-year-old longshoremen who suffered only minor physical injuries, after the jeep he was riding in was struck by a tractor trailer which was slowly backing up. The burley longshoremen developed post traumatic stress disorder which prevented him from being able to return to work. Following a long jury trial, the plaintiff was awarded $725,000 in damages.