Steven V. Podolsky
Read this listing narrowly. His own biography gives his areas of practice as civil and commercial litigation, corporate law, and commercial and residential real estate. Personal injury does not appear. The rideshare page belongs to his firm, and it is a good one — but nothing on his own page says he works on these claims.
The bar record
We read Steven V. Podolsky in the New York State Unified Court System’s Attorney Detail Report. Only the shaded green row is generated by the court; the rows marked attorney-supplied were filed by him.
New York vouches for one line of this. The court system’s own disclaimer states that the Detail Report contains information provided by the attorney, except registration status, which is generated from the Office of Court Administration’s database. It further states that an attorney’s good standing and any information regarding disciplinary actions must be confirmed with the appropriate Appellate Division Department. So “currently registered” is the court’s own fact. “No record of discipline” is displayed by the court system but comes with an instruction to verify it elsewhere — and we haven’t. That is why the discipline figure above is a dash and not a tick.
And it tells you which office to ask. Steven V. Podolsky was admitted through the 2nd Department, so that is the department a reader would need to write to. Of the twenty-one lawyers on our New York pages, fifteen were admitted through the Second and six through the First. No other register we use sends you somewhere else to finish the check — and none of the others tells you where.
What the record shows
His biography lists three areas of practice: civil and commercial litigation, corporate law, and commercial and residential real estate. Personal injury is not among them. His published honours are in copyright and entertainment law writing competitions and legal ethics.Verified
The firm’s rideshare page is one of the strongest in this batch — it cites VTL §1693, sets out the three coverage periods with figures, explains the no-fault and serious-injury structure, and carries an explicit disclaimer that it is not legal advice. But it names the firm, not him.Verified
New York’s register publishes no practice-area field, so it cannot settle this either way. We are showing you the mismatch rather than smoothing it over — the same treatment we gave Richard Victor in Seattle and Lauren Wegener before him.Verified
What the firm says
He says he took his J.D. at Brooklyn Law School and a B.A. cum laude at New York University, and won first prize in the Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition in Copyright Law and the Los Angeles County Bar entertainment law writing competition in 1997.Reported
He says he received the New York State Bar Law Student Legal Ethics Award in 1996 and has been published in the Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal and the Queens Bar Journal.Reported
He says he is admitted in New York and New Jersey, in the Eastern, Southern and Western Districts of New York, the District of New Jersey and the Second Circuit. New York has no field for admissions elsewhere.Reported
Rideshare
What we haven’t checked
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