Ep 240 | Jeff Kimmel | Driving Strategy, Innovation & Excellence in Med Mal and PI at SSKB New York
The Lawyer Stories Podcast
Benjamin Gold
5.0 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
The Lawyer Stories Podcast Episode 240 features Jeff Kimmel, Partner and CEO of Salenger, Sack, Kimmel & Bavaro (SSKB) in New York. Jeff shares his inspiring journey of integrating business strategy, legal innovation, and client-centered practices while honoring the mentorship of the late Marvin Salenger. He reminds us to go where life takes you, embrace it, and be who you are.
SSKB continues to grow through quality over quantity, focusing on serious medical malpractice and personal injury cases that truly make a difference.
🎧 Tune in to hear how Jeff's approach combines purpose, leadership, and compassion in law.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Lawyer Stories podcast with host Benny Gold. Lawyer Stories was founded in July 2017 on Instagram and is an expanding global network of lawyers and law students sharing their personal journeys to the noble profession of the practice of law. |
| 0:17.0 | Join us on this podcast as we dig deeper into these stories and hear from lawyers and law students from around the world in all areas of the legal profession. |
| 0:26.0 | Here at lawyer stories, we believe that every lawyer has a story. What's yours? |
| 0:35.8 | Welcome to the Lawyer Stories podcast with Benny Gold. Today we welcome in Jeff Kimmel, partner and CEO of Salinger Sack Kimmelin-Bavaro, one of New York's leading medical malpractice and personal injury law firms. A graduate of the Wharton School of Business in Brooklyn Law School, |
| 0:55.8 | Jeff has built a reputation not only as a seasoned trial attorney, but also as a visionary |
| 1:01.5 | business leader. Jeff, great to connect. Welcome in. All right, Betty. How are you doing? |
| 1:06.7 | I'm doing good. I'm doing good. I'm happy to have this time with you and to share your story. |
| 1:11.9 | You've done a lot of cool things and a lot of cool areas, you know, media and everything. |
| 1:17.9 | It's just, we're going to, there's a lot. You've done any cool stuff. So congrats to your success. |
| 1:24.6 | Yeah, all right. So let's start off talking a little bit about where you grew up and like what those early years |
| 1:31.6 | were like. |
| 1:32.3 | Are you in New York or through and through? |
| 1:34.3 | New York and through or through born in Brooklyn, but moved out to Long Island at about |
| 1:39.3 | five and really grew up in Long Island. |
| 1:42.3 | Long Island, that's awesome. Okay. Great place. So tell us like what |
| 1:48.7 | inspired you to pursue the career in law. And like was there a moment? Did you have a defining moment |
| 1:54.6 | or was it high school? Is it middle school? Like where was that? Where did that happen for you? |
| 2:00.3 | Yeah, I guess the defining moment came in high school, but growing up and in school, |
| 2:05.4 | I was always good at, you know, English and writing and stuff like that. |
| 2:09.4 | Those were the subjects that I did well in. |
| 2:11.4 | I was also involved in student government. |
| 2:14.2 | Younger, not really high school, but before high school, when you're like a little kid and you do those things. |
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