Jeffrey Alan Guzman was born on September 6, 1970, in New York, New York, United States. His professional life has been based in the New York metropolitan legal environment, where complex personal-injury, medical-malpractice, and professional-liability disputes are litigated in state and federal courts.
Guzman received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers College in 1992 and a Juris Doctor degree from Rutgers Law School in Camden in 1995. Rutgers College, the liberal-arts undergraduate division of Rutgers University, provided the setting for his initial higher education, while Rutgers Law School in Camden trained him in the legal profession within New Jersey's public university system.
His legal education preceded admission to the bars of New York and New Jersey in 1996. Rutgers Law School—Camden is part of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, a major public research university whose law schools serve the legal communities of New Jersey and the wider northeastern United States.
Guzman began practicing law after receiving his Juris Doctor degree and gaining admission to the bar in 1996. His admissions include New York, New Jersey, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. His practice has included insurance defense, personal injury, medical malpractice, products liability, construction liability, environmental litigation, professional-malpractice claims, and insurance-coverage disputes.
He worked at Kopff, Nardelli & Dopf Limited Liability Partnership in New York, a firm formed in 1982 whose practice centered on defending professional-liability, personal-injury, and wrongful-death actions. The firm's work also included general-liability, construction-liability, toxic-tort, environmental-liability, vehicular-accident, property-damage, and insurance-coverage litigation.
Guzman later became a founding member of Krentsel & Guzman, LLP, subsequently operating as Krentsel Guzman Herbert, LLP. The Manhattan firm represents plaintiffs in personal-injury matters, including medical negligence, birth injury, nursing-home abuse, wrongful death, worksite accidents, automobile accidents, premises liability, and environmental or PFAS-related claims. Guzman has served as counsel in state and federal litigation, including medical-malpractice and nursing-home cases.
His reported trial results include a $15 million verdict for a child who suffered intellectual disability and a $6.65 million verdict involving Erb's palsy at or near birth. His practice has also addressed the medical and legal issues surrounding brachial-plexus birth injuries and other serious injuries affecting children.
Guzman obtained a reported $15 million verdict on behalf of a child who suffered intellectual disability in connection with a birth-injury case.
Guzman obtained a reported $6.65 million verdict in a case involving Erb's palsy at or near birth.
Guzman has represented plaintiffs in significant medical-malpractice, personal-injury, professional-liability, products-liability, and environmental litigation in state and federal courts.
