In His Own Words
Durga Bhurtel is a New York City Personal Injury Lawyer with the experience to swiftly resolve your case. With combined legal experience of over 27 years National and international experience of law practice. Mr. Bhurtel focuses on personal injury, and civil litigation. He handles a wide variety of personal injury claims and strives for fast results. Mr. Bhurtel represents victim who injured because of construction accident, such as scaffold fall, ladder fall, construction material fall, Auto Accident such as Car crash, Bus Crash, Truck crash, Toxic Tort such as Lead ingest injury, Mold injury, Premises Negligence such as slip and fall on sidewalk, commercial building, private building, sidewalk, bicycle crash, and other Negligence. He is proficient in English, Nepali, Hindi and Urdu language. He has a reputation for pursuing justice and winning compensation for Bhurtel Law Firm clients.
Attorney Profile
Practice Areas:
- Personal Injury
- Construction worker injury, such as scaffold fall, ladder fall, construction material fall, and other injury
- Auto mobile crash injury: Car crash, Bus crash, Truck crash, Bicycle crash, Pedestrian crash, Train accident, Aircraft accident
- Toxic injury: Lead poison, mold, other toxic injury
- Premises Negligence: Slip and fall, trip and fall, objects falling and striking, inadequate lighting in commercial building or Private building, sidewalk etc.
- Highway, Roadway defect or hazard.
- Product liability: any product that is defectively designed or it is a defectively manufacturer which caused injury.
- Government Liability: Municipality Negligence, State Negligence, and federal government or employee negligence.
- Civil Litigation: Contract dispute, partnership dispute, shareholder dispute, business dispute.
Bar admissions:
- New York State
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
- Supreme Court of the United States;
- District of Columbia;
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Education:
- M.S. Laws, Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, Central Islip, New York
- Dean’s List, fall 2002
- M.S. Laws, Delhi University, Delhi, India
- B.S., Law, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
Professional appointments:
Mr. Bhurtel has been selected Top 100 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyers in New York by The Top National Trial Lawyers.
- Touro Law Center Judicial Clerkship Clinic, worked as Judicial Intern under Justice Ira Gammerman, Commercial Division, Supreme Court of the State of New York County of New York
- Arbitrator, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), since 2004
Professional associations:
- Member, New York City Bar
- Member, New York State Bar
- Member, New York State Trial Lawyer Association
- Vice President, Indo-American Lawyers Association, 2008-2011
- Member, Litigation Committee, New York City Bar, 2007-2010
- Member, Tort Committee, New York City Bar, 2013
Language:
- Mr. Bhurtel speaks English, Nepali, Hindi and Urdu