Brian M. Mittman, Esq.

About Brian

The named partner whose name means something.

Brian M. Mittman has been representing injured and disabled New Yorkers for over three decades. He grew up inside this firm — Markhoff & Mittman, P.C. has served working New Yorkers for more than 93 years — and the weight of that history is not lost on him. When Brian signs a client, that client is not handed off to an associate who was not yet born when Brian filed his first workers' compensation case. Brian handles the case.

The most important thing to understand about Brian Mittman is something that almost no managing partner at a multi-office law firm can honestly say: he still attends workers' compensation board hearings himself. Not occasionally. Not as a gesture. As a deliberate structural choice that shapes how the firm manages caseloads. The economics of volume-first firms make this impossible. Brian made a different choice, and clients feel the difference the moment they walk into a hearing room and see the named partner standing at the table.

Brian's practice spans four areas that often intersect in the lives of injured workers: workers' compensation, Social Security Disability Insurance, long-term disability (ERISA and non-ERISA), and personal injury. He understands how an uncoordinated strategy across those four areas can cost a client money — and how a coordinated one can maximize total recovery. That cross-practice fluency is rare and is a direct product of decades of genuinely handling each area himself.

Three-generation client relationships are not a marketing phrase at this firm — they are documented in the case files. The grandfather who was injured on a Bronx construction site in 1971. His son, whose SSDI claim came through the office in 1998. His granddaughter, a nurse, who called after getting hurt lifting a patient in 2024. Brian has personally spoken with multiple generations of the same family. That continuity of trust is the metric he cares about most.

Brian represents the worker. Never the employer. Never the insurer. Never the carrier. That structural commitment — plaintiff-side only, for more than 93 years — is the reason the firm's reputation survives changes in law, changes in technology, and changes in the competitive landscape. Defense firms earn referrals from insurers. Brian earns referrals from the workers his firm has represented for decades.

If you have been injured at work, denied disability benefits, or hurt in an accident, Brian will give you an honest evaluation of your case at no charge. If the case is strong, he will tell you what he can do. If it is not, he will tell you that too — and point you toward someone who can help. That candor is the single thing clients and referring attorneys most consistently mention when describing why they came back.