Representing Victims of Discrimination

Benedict P. Morelli

Benedict P. Morelli has represented dozens of clients in Employment Discrimination cases (including racial discrimination, age discrimination, sexual harassment, sexual discrimination, and gender bias) and has won multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements. He represents individual plaintiffs against all types of businesses including major corporations and large investment banks. Mr. Morelli graduated from City College, New York in 1971 and studied law at New York Law School. After being admitted to the New York State Bar in 1977 he became a partner and then senior partner of a successful personal injury law firm. He is admitted to the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. District Courts, Southern, Eastern Western and Northern districts of New York. In June, 1998, after a partnership of over 21 years, Mr. Morelli dissolved his firm and started a new firm – Benedict P. Morelli & Associates, P.C. In June 2005, the name of that firm was changed to Morelli Ratner PC. In addition to trying cases, Mr. Morelli is President of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and sustaining member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, emeritus on the Board of Directors of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, advocate rank in the American Board of Trial Advocates, member of the New York State Bar Association, American Bar Association, New York County Lawyer’s Association, National Employment Lawyers Association, and past president of the Brooklyn-Manhattan Trial Lawyers Association. Mr. Morelli has been listed in Best Lawyers in America continuously from 1997 through the present edition. He has also been selected by the New York State Trial Lawyers Association as one of New York’s “Superstars.” For two years, Mr. Morelli was a regular on the nationally syndicated television show “Power of Attorney”. He has also appeared as a guest on “The Today Show,” “Good Morning America,” “Aaron Brown,” “Anderson Cooper 360,” “Dateline NBC,” “The View,” “The Ananda Lewis Show,” and “Court TV.” He has taught and lectured for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, Association of Trial Lawyers of the City of New York, New York State Bar Association (“Proving Damages in a Civil Trial”), and the New York State Trial Lawyers Association (“New York Superstars,” “Trial Advocacy Workshop,” “Summations,” and “Cross-Examination”).

David Ratner

David Ratner received his B.S. from Cornell University in 1968 and his J.D. from Fordham Law School in 1974. He was admitted to practice in New York in 1974 and is also admitted to practice in the US District Courts, Eastern, Northern & Western Districts of New York, and the Federal Court of Claims. He has been appointed a special master in the Supreme Court, New York County and an arbitrator in the US District Court, Eastern District of New York. Mr. Ratner has been litigating and trying a wide variety of cases for over thirty years. He has successfully handled employment discrimination and civil rights lawsuits in New York and in courts throughout the United States. Mr. Ratner has taught trial practice at Fordham Law School. He is a member of the American Trial Lawyers Association, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, The New York State and American Bar Associations and has been elected to the rank of Advocate in the American Board of Trial Advocates.