Marijo C. Adimey is a partner at Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn,Steigman & Mackauf, where she handles complex medical malpractice and personal injury cases in New York and New Jersey. Above all, she is a trial lawyer, having tried multiple complex cases to verdict across multiple fields of medicine and having obtained more than 100settlements in the seven and eight figures. Most recently, in May 2025, she secured a unanimous verdict of $60,033,041 for a 65-year-old electrical mechanic left permanently paralyzed following a routine epidural steroid injection—believed to be the highest medical malpractice verdict ever awarded in Nassau County. Her extensive work on the Tribeca crane collapse litigation also contributed to co-author Howard Hershenhorn's $272.5 million settlement—the largest crane accident recovery ever recorded in New York and among the largest construction settlements in the nation. She works closely with the firm's in-house medical staff and outside experts while supervising a team of attorneys and paralegals.
Marijo's trial results span the breadth of medical malpractice litigation. In a single year, she obtained two of the top medical malpractice verdicts in New York: a $2.5 million unanimous verdict for a woman who suffered a duodenal perforation during a diagnostic upper endoscopy, and a $1,270,000 unanimous verdict in Kings County for a woman whose spleen was torn from her colon during a routine screening colonoscopy. Her other results include an $11.5 million settlement during trial for a woman who developed Wernicke's encephalopathy and permanent brain damage after an undiagnosed thiamine deficiency following bariatric surgery, a $7.5 million settlement for an infant who suffered brain damage during delivery, and numerous seven and eight figure recoveries in cases involving failure to diagnose cancer, birth injury, surgical error, and hospital negligence.
Marijo learned her craft in the courtroom, beginning as an Assistant District Attorney in Bronx County, where she tried dozens of felony and misdemeanor cases to verdict. She joined the Gair firm in 2014 and was named partner just three years later.
Consecutively named one of the Top Women Litigators in New York by Super Lawyers since 2017—and a Super Lawyer every year since 2013, when she was first selected as a Rising Star—Marijo has earned a reputation as a fierce, tenacious litigator known for a direct and determined approach. Since 2015, her peers have selected her annually for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America and New York Magazine's Best Lawyers in the specialties of medical malpractice and personal injury. She holds the highest AV Peer Review Rating for legal ability and ethical standards from Martindale-Hubbell and has received its Client Distinction Award, an honor given to fewer than 1% of more than 900,000 attorneys. She appeared on every major news network and has been quoted in national and international publications for her work on a multi-faceted case involving intricate issues of allergy and immunology.
Marijo was appointed by the Appellate Division as a member of the First Department Attorney Disciplinary Committee, a position she has held for the past three years, and was appointed by the Administrative Judge for Civil Matters, First Judicial Department, as an attorney member of the Medical Malpractice Advisory Committee for the Supreme Court, New York County. She has also served on the Judiciary Committee of the New York City Bar Association, which evaluates candidates for appointment, reappointment, election, or reelection to the bench at the city, state, and federal levels. Marijo is a Board Member of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, where she sits on the Medical Malpractice and Labor Law Committees, and is a frequent lecturer on medical malpractice and trial practice for the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and the New York State and New York City Bar Associations.
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