I am one of the few women Managing Partners of a Long Island law firm. My law firm, Pegalis Law Group, LLC helps people who have suffered life-altering injuries and damages due to avoidable medical errors. I represent patients in medical negligence cases focusing on women's health issues, children's birth injuries, cancers, surgical and neurosurgical cases, and other medical specialty cases where negligence in involved. Securing funds for the injured and their families is usually the only way to ensure some quality of life. I am an advocate for patient safety and medical accountability. I am an alum of Seton Hall University and Boston University School of Law.
Pegalis Law Group, LLC is a plaintiff's medical malpractice and personal injury law firm, handling all types of medical negligence cases for nearly 50 years. We hold some of the highest verdicts and settlements recorded on a state and national level. We are known for discovering avoidable negligent acts in even the most complex cases and successfully resolving them, as a means of lessening the significant financial burdens resulting from life long injuries.
I served as Executive board member and Dean of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association. I am a member of the Long Island 100 Women Who Care, and of the American Association for Justice, the New York County Bar, the Women's Bar Association of Nassau County, the Nassau-Suffolk Trial Lawyers, Nassau County Bar Assoc. --Medical Malpractice and Women in the Courts Committees.
Frequent guest lecturer at New York Law School on Practice and Procedure in Medical Malpractice litigation. I write articles for the New York Law Journal on medical malpractice litigation issues, and on law office management.
Anyone who comes in contact with patients who have ad an unanticipated outcome concerning a medical procedure or been injured through medical negligence--attorneys, therapists, special ed teachers, breast cancer awareness groups.