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 has dedicated her law practice to protecting the rights of individuals with serious injuries and disabilities for the past 41 years. Valerie has devoted her career to helping injured 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 personal injury, medical malpractice, dental malpractice, nursing home abuse/neglect, wrongful death, Social Security Disability/ERISA Disability, or Workers’ Compensation.

She is also paying it forward by arbitrating and mediating attorney fee disputes, on a pro bono basis, with the Part 137 Program and plans to arbitrate and mediate cases involving her areas of practice as well.

Valerie Crown 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, as well as being registered with the New York Workers’ Compensation Board and the Social Security Administration.

Valerie 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 honors, 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 and Mediator on the Part 137 Fee Dispute Panel for the First, Ninth, and Eleventh Judicial Districts of New York State

Education

JD, Cardozo School of Law

BA, magna cum laude, Barnard College of Columbia University