Valerie Crown, Esq.

About The Lecturer

Valerie J. Crown, Esq. has a small law firm in New City, New York (Valerie J. Crown, Attorney at Law, P.C.) where she dedicates her law practice to protecting the rights of individuals with serious injuries and disabilities. For the past 40 years, she has devoted her career to helping injured medical and dental patients, victims of accidents, abused and neglected nursing home residents as well as injured workers and disabled individuals receive the compensation and benefits they deserve – whether from dental malpractice, medical malpractice, nursing home abuse/neglect, wrongful death, personal injury, Social Security Disability, or Workers’ Compensation.

Valerie is admitted to practice before the New York State Courts, the Federal District Courts of the Southern and Eastern Districts, and the United States Supreme Court.

She obtained her B.A. from Barnard College of Columbia University, magna cum laude, and her J.D. from Cardozo School of Law where she was an international law editor on the Moot Court Board.

Her memberships and associations include:

• Member of the New York State Bar Association
• Member and Past President of Rockland County Women’s Bar Association
• Member and Past Board Member of New York State Women’s Bar Association
• Founder & Past Director of Rockland County Pro Bono Clinic
• Past Member of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association
• Committee Vice-Chairperson of the Personal Injury and Compensation Law Committee of Rockland County Bar Association
• Member of the Rockland County Bar Association
• Certified New York State Mediator
• Arbitrator on the Part 137 Fee Dispute Panel for the Ninth and Eleventh Judicial Districts of New York State

Education

JD, Cardozo School of Law

BA, magna cum laude, Barnard College of Columbia University