Joseph Donnelly IV

I am a trial attorney at Edelman, Krasin & Jaye, PLLC, handling personal injury and employment discrimination matters.

I started my legal career as an Assistant District Attorney at the Queens County District Attorney’s Office, advancing to a felony trial bureau, where I prosecuted a variety of violent and non-violent crimes, including robberies, burglaries, assaults, and attempted murders, and tried numerous cases to verdict.

Following my tenure at the DA’s office, I was a trial associate at a prominent personal injury law firm, and then a founding partner of Donnelly Stehn, LLP, a boutique trial firm, where I represented accident victims and victims of discrimination from intake through resolution in both state and federal courts. I tried numerous cases in the Supreme Courts in New York City and Long Island, securing jury verdicts in excess of two million dollars.

I was accepted to St. John’s University of Law with an academic merit scholarship, where I enrolled in the evening division, while working full-time during the day. I graduated with honors, and earned the “Dean’s Award for Excellence,” an honor given to the highest scoring student in each class, in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, New York Criminal Practice, as well as both semesters of the Prosecution Clinic in which I prosecuted misdemeanor cases under the supervision of Assistant District Attorneys in the Domestic Violence Bureau of the Queens County District Attorney’s Office.

Additionally, during my time at St. John’s Law, I was elected as an Executive Articles Editor for the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review and served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Sheri S. Roman of the Appellate Division, Second Department.

Features

• Boating and Recreational Injuries
• Car Accident Liability Claims
• Discrimination Cases (Race, Gender, Disability)
• Distracted Driving Incidents
• Drunk Driving Accident Cases
• Freedom of Speech Cases
• Hit-and-Run Cases
• Human Rights Advocacy
• LGBTQ+ Rights
• Motorcycle and Truck Accidents
• Multi-Vehicle Pileups
• Pedestrian and Cyclist Injuries
• Police Misconduct
• Prisoner Rights Cases
• Rear-End Collisions
• Religious Rights Cases
• Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Claims
• Voting Rights Cases

• License
  Licensed in New York
  State: New York
  Acquired: 2015
  Currently Registered
  
• Honors
  2018 - Multi-Million Dollar Advocate, Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum
  2018 - Million Dollar Advocate, Million Dollar Advocates Forum
  N/A - Rising Star, Super Lawyers
  N/A - Top 40 Under 40, National Trial Lawyers Association
• Work Experience
  2024 - Present Senior Trial Attorney, Meirowitz & Wasserberg, LLP
  - Counsel, Edelman, Krasin & Jaye PLLC
  2021 - 2024 Trial Counsel, Edelman, Krasin & Jaye, PLLC
  2020 - 2021 Partner, Donnelly Stehn, LLP
  2017 - 2020 Attorney, Salenger, Sack, Kimmel & Bavaro LLP
  2014 - 2017 Assistant District Attorney, Queens District Attorney's Office
  2013 - 2013 Judicial Intern, New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division Second Department
  2011 - 2014 Law Clerk, Salenger, Sack, Kimmel & Bavaro LLP
• Associations
  New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers
  Nassau-Suffolk Trial Lawyers Association
  Catholics Lawyers Guild of Queens
  Assistant District Attorney's Association of Queen
• Education
  2014 - St John's University School of Law - JD - Juris Doctor
  2004 - State University of New York, Stony Brook - BS - Bachelor of Science
  - SUNY Stony Brook - BS
• Languages
  English - Native / Fluent

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