ARKADY FREKHTMAN
Arkady Frekhtman is the founder and owner of Frekhtman & Associates. He graduated from law school in 1997 and worked for a solo practitioner in Austin, Texas, before returning to New York City in 1999.
In 2000, he opened his own practice in Brooklyn. He still remembers his first settlement: $12,000 for a Queens mother who sued a large life insurance company, alleging fraud. That money helped him hire a paralegal and began the growth of Frekhtman & Associates.
Since then, Arkady has handled thousands of personal injury cases, including soft-tissue car accident claims, severe brain injuries, mass torts, burn injuries, and construction site accidents.
Languages: English and Russian.
Arkady Frekhtman is the founder and owner of Frekhtman & Associates. He graduated from law school in 1997 and worked for a solo practitioner in Austin, Texas, before returning to New York City in 1999.
Arkady sat for and passed both the New York and Texas bars. After returning to New York, he worked as an associate at a plaintiff’s personal injury firm in Manhattan, where he prepared motions, conducted discovery, made daily court appearances, and managed a sizeable caseload.
In 2000, he opened his own practice in Brooklyn. He still remembers his first settlement: $12,000 for a Queens mother who sued a large life insurance company, alleging fraud. That money helped him hire a paralegal and began the growth of Frekhtman & Associates.
Since then, Arkady has handled thousands of personal injury cases, including soft-tissue car accident claims, severe brain injuries, mass torts, burn injuries, and construction site accidents.
Frekhtman & Associates started with one attorney. Today it is a New York City personal injury trial firm with more than 25 people, including attorneys, paralegals, investigators, and file clerks, working from six offices in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens.
The goal hasn’t changed since that first case: quality representation for seriously injured people.
Arkady handles every stage of a case, including case preparation, motions and appeals, depositions, client communication, mediations, and trials.
Arkady hosts the Trial Stories podcast and explains how injury cases work in educational videos on the firm’s YouTube channel.
In June 2026, he was a featured speaker at Trial Lawyers University Live in Huntington Beach, California, where he presented a Bronx subway slip-and-fall case.
Practice Areas: Personal Injury Litigation, Automobile Accidents, Premises Liability, Medical Malpractice, Cerebral Palsy, Erb’s Palsy, Birth Injuries, Traumatic Brain Injury, Construction Accidents, Wrongful Death, Mass Torts.
Member: New York State Trial Lawyers Association (NYSTLA), New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers, American Bar Association (ABA), New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), American Association for Justice (AAJ).
Languages: English and Russian.
Representative Decisions:
Treile v. Brooklyn Tillary, LLC, 120 AD3d 1335 (2d Dept 2014). The Appellate Division, Second Department, granted a construction worker summary judgment on liability under Labor Law § 240(1).
Scott v. City of New York, Appellate Division, Second Department (2011)
Vassar College, Bachelor of Arts in History (1995)
University of Texas at Austin School of Law, Juris Doctor (1997)
New York State Courts (admitted January 13, 1999)
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (EDNY)
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY)
Texas State Courts (inactive)
Featured Speaker, Trial Lawyers University Live, Huntington Beach, California (June 2026)
Top 100 Trial Lawyers membership, The National Trial Lawyers (2017)
10 Best Attorneys for Client Satisfaction, American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys (2016, 2017)
Avvo Top Contributor (2017)
Avvo Rating: 9.8 (Superb)
Verdicts & Settlements
$4,000,000 damages inquest award in a construction site accident case, Supreme Court, Kings County
$2,800,000 verdict in a construction accident falling-object case, Supreme Court, Kings County
$2,800,000 settlement in a construction site accident case, Neurauter v. City of New York, Supreme Court, Queens County
$2,400,000 mediated settlement in a tractor-trailer accident case, Supreme Court, Bronx County
$1,700,000 mediated settlement in a ceiling collapse case, Sindia Jean Philippe v. Renaissance Equity Holding, Supreme Court, Kings County
$1,500,000 settlement after jury selection in a medical malpractice case, Jeune v. City of New York, Supreme Court, Kings County
$1,400,000 mediated settlement in a staircase accident case, Supreme Court, Kings County
$1,000,000 settlement in a car accident case, Supreme Court, Kings County
$575,000 car accident settlement, Auerbach v. Epic Mechanical, et al., Supreme Court, Kings County
$537,000 verdict in a car accident case, Au v. Barbarise, et al., Supreme Court, New York County
$500,000 car accident settlement, Burgos v. Budget, Supreme Court, Bronx County
$500,000 brain injury settlement in a pedestrian knockdown case, Supreme Court, New York County
Thousands of cases handled since 1999, with multiple verdicts and settlements ranging from $100,000 to more than $1,000,000.
Arkady Frekhtman on Trial Strategy, Social Media & Storytelling in the Courtroom
Arkady was recently featured on Back of the Pack (BOP) from NYC, where he joined hosts Bob and Mauro – along with guest host Zach Barreto of Expert Institute – to talk about what it really takes to win serious injury cases in New York.
The conversation covers how Arkady built his practice through social media, why he tells human stories instead of leading with medical jargon when trying traumatic brain injury cases, and what earned him the reputation as YouTube’s “People’s Champion” for injured clients.
The Right Representation Near You
While it’s possible to handle a personal injury case on your own, having an experienced attorney by your side significantly increases the likelihood of a favorable outcome. We have our office located all over New York City, so you don’t have to worry about office visits. You can find and visit one of our offices near you.