General Information

Year founded: 1980
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Overview

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Silberstein, Awad & Miklos, P.C. has represented families throughout New York City and Long Island for 35 years in cases involving medical malpractice and serious personal injury. Our passion and expertise has helped to compensate our clients for the harms and losses they have endured. We have achieved multi-million dollar recoveries and record verdicts in cases such as the failure to diagnose cancer, heart attack and stroke, birth injury, surgical errors, construction site accidents and wrongful death.

Our firm is committed to the highest standards of professional performance, service and ethics to ensure that our clients' legal matters are managed compassionately and expeditiously. To achieve this ideal, we employ trial lawyers who are devoted to distinguishing themselves in the field of personal injury practice and who are zealously committed to our clients. We handle cases involving hospital medical malpractice, surgical medical malpractice, medication malpractice, birth injuries, misdiagnosis of cancer, heart attack and stroke, nursing home negligence, wrongful death, premises liability, defective products, automobile accidents, construction site accidents and other serious personal injuries.

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Rankings

Silberstein, Awad & Miklos, P.C. is metro ranked in 2 practice areas. Best Law Firms rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process.

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Metro Rankings

Long Island
Tier 1 for Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
Tier 3 for Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs
New York City
Tier 1 for Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
Tier 2 for Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs

About Our Clients

There are three qualities that people look for in an attorney: experience, integrity and success. At Silberstein, Awad & Miklos, our mission is to deliver these qualities to each and every client.

Our lawyers understand intimately the emotional and financial burden that serious injury causes an individual and his or her family. Our devotion to a work ethic defines our client relations.

Trusting clients rely on us as confidants and counsels. We guide our clients’ cases through the complex legal process, involving investigation, service of legal documents, pre-trial discovery, mediation, negotiation and, if necessary, trial to verdict.

For over 35 years, Silberstein, Awad & Miklos has obtained historic verdicts and settlements through compassion and imaginative solutions to our clients’ legal challenges.

Rankings

Regional Rankings

Long Island
Tier 1 for Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
Tier 3 for Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs
New York City
Tier 1 for Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
Tier 2 for Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs

Practice Areas

The below are areas of legal specialty volunteered by the firm and do not designate a specialty in which a Best Law Firms ranking is held.
  • Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs
  • Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs

Individuals Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America®

Silberstein, Awad & Miklos, P.C. has 2 lawyers recognized for individual performance in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. By receiving this Best Lawyers recognition from their peers for their professional excellence, these lawyers made Silberstein, Awad & Miklos, P.C. eligible for evaluation for Best Law Firms rankings. For almost two decades, Best Lawyers has awarded these singular accolades, making them the foundation of our Best Law Firms awards. Read more about our Best Lawyers process here.
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Awards

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  • Super Lawyers - New York Metro 2012
  • Super Lawyers - New York Metro 2013
  • Legal Leaders - New York Area's Top Rated Lawyers of 2013
  • The Best Lawyers in America®
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  • Super Lawyers - New York Metro 2009
  • Super Lawyers - New York Metro 2010
  • Super Lawyers - New York Metro 2011
  • U.S. News - Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms" 2011-2012
  • U.S. News - Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms" 2013
  • U.S. News - Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms" 2014
  • Long Island's Top Legal Eagles 2013
  • Long Island's Top Legal Eagles 2014
  • Long Island's Top Legal Eagles 2012
  • U.S. News - Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms" 2015
  • Super Lawyers - New York Metro 2014
  • The Best Lawyers in America
  • U.S. News - Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms" 2016
  • Super Lawyers - New York Metro 2015
  • Top 10 Legal Eagle Award - Top Attorney Personal Injury Law - Joseph P. Awad
  • Top Legal Eagles 2016

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