Michael Kaplen, Esq.

Michael V. Kaplen is a senior partner in the New York personal injury law firm, De Caro & Kaplen, LLP.  https://www.brainlaw.com  His practice focuses on personal injury and medical malpractice with an emphasis on representing individuals who have sustained a traumatic or acquired brain injury and other catastrophic injuries.

Michael is a Professorial Lecturer in Law at The George Washington University Law School where he teaches the only course in the nation devoted to traumatic brain injury law.  He is board certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and is board certified in Medical Malpractice,and a member of the board of governors of the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys.   He is three-term past president of the Brain Injury Association of New York State and a member of the New York State Traumatic Brain Injury Services Coordinating Council and chaired the council from 2007 to 2013.