Jordan Merson

Jordan Merson has received a number of prestigious accolades, including:

• 2024: Appointed to trust advisory committee responsible for distributing the $2.7 billion Boy Scouts settlement.
• 2024: Named by Super Lawyers as one of the top 100 lawyers in New York.
• 2024: Recognized as one of the top 200 lawyers in America by Forbes.
• 2019: Finalist for Public Justice’s esteemed “Trial Lawyer of the Year.”
• 2014: Selected for the New York Law Journal’s prestigious “Hall of Fame” for Medical Malpractice Verdicts and Settlements.
• 2014: Included on New York Magazine’s top verdicts list. Notably, Merson achieved the largest single-plaintiff medical malpractice verdict in Westchester County for at least a five-year period, securing an $11.3 million verdict after the defendant that proceeded to trial refused to offer any settlement.

For his clients, Merson has many settlements or secured jury verdicts well in excess of $5 million, including:

• 2018: Beat his own record with a $28 million award from a Westchester jury, marking the largest contested, compensatory jury verdict against an institution in New York State History for a child sexual assault victim.
• 2019: Achieved a $14 million verdict for another child sex abuse victim.
• 2020: Represented a client in another “no pay” medical malpractice case at trial and achieved a jury verdict of more than $6 million.

Merson is a graduate of Fordham Law School and former co-captain of the basketball team, which won the division championship at Madison Square Garden. He received his Bachelor of Science in Communications magna cum laude from Boston University.