Ray Panek is one of the founding partners of Elefterakis, Elefterakis & Panek, a personal injury law firm started by three childhood friends from Brooklyn, New York that has now grown to over 40 attorneys and earned the reputation as one of the hardest hitting law firms in New York. During his relatively short career, Ray has burst onto the scene as one of NYC’s most successful trial attorneys. Named as a National Top 40 Under 40 Trial Lawyer beginning at age 28, Ray has secured dozens of multi-million dollar verdicts including jury awards of $33 Million, $32 Million and $28 Million as well other impressive feats such as securing an $8 Million verdict on a nonsurgical case. In 2021, Ray obtained the highest personal injury verdict in New York State as well as one of the highest awards for pain and suffering in the United States. Increasingly, insurance companies have agreed to pay significant settlement premiums to avoid trial against Ray- in 2022 alone, his trial case settlements totaled over $60 Million. In addition to personal injury, Ray also tries Civil Rights and Wrongful Conviction cases; Ray along with his Civil Rights team secured a high-profile pretrial settlement of $18 Million in 2022.

Ray prides himself on diligent and fastidious trial preparation as well as mastery of the medical issues and nuances in his cases. Ray takes a unique approach to trial that he has successfully shared with other talented trial attorneys and looks forward to doing the same at the Trial Lawyers University.