{"id":365148,"date":"2026-10-05T21:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/365148\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T21:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:08:09","slug":"attorney-david-lesch-is-in-the-family-business-of-changing-peoples-lives-in-the-bronx-one-personal-injury-case-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/365148\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney David Lesch is in the family business of changing people\u2019s lives in the Bronx one personal injury case at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Lesch\u2019s family firm has spent decades getting Bronxites money after they\u2019ve been injured. Now the managing parnter of Lesch Law<\/a>, Lesch says he\u2019s motivated every day to continue the work his family started in 1966 because he knows it\u2019s changing people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m getting people money who didn\u2019t have money,\u201d Lesch said of the settlements and verdicts he gets injured clients. \u201cThat changes people\u2019s lives. This isn\u2019t like Manhattan or the other boroughs. This is the Bronx \u2026 My clients have gone from food stamps and EBT to all of a sudden having hundreds of thousands of dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t get me wrong; they were injured and they deserved it,\u201d Lesch added. \u201cMy clients would rather not be injured and not have to take money for their injury.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since joining his family\u2019s firm in 1992 after working as a court attorney for a few years, he\u2019s spent nearly 35 years fighting hard for Bronxites to be able to take the money they deserve for their injuries, both in court and outside of it. He said he knew this is what he wanted to pour his energy into almost immidately after he joined the fights his family\u2019s firm was taking on.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI always knew I was drawn to the law in this way,\u201d Lesch said. \u201cI started trying my first case within two weeks at my family\u2019s firm, and I never looked back. I eventually took over the firm.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"David Lesch stands with former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.<\/p>\n

Though he grew up in Queens, Lesch\u2019s family has always had a strong connection the Bronx. His dad grew up there and his grandfather had an auto body shop there. After his father, Solomon Lesch graduated law school, his dad started auto body clients who\u2019d gotten into car wrecks his way so Solomon Lesch could file personal injury suits on their behalf. As more and more injured Bronxites were sent his way, he decided to put his firm\u2019s roots down in the Bronx, where he\u2019d grown up.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever there was a crash or a wreck, my grandfather started referring my father some cases to represent people,\u201d Lesch said. \u201cMy father very well after law school, but he ended up at a white-shoe firm, and he just didn\u2019t like working for other people; he just wanted to work for himself. So, he established a place in the Bronx as my grandfather started sending him cases.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lesch Law prides itself on guardianship work<\/p>\n

Lesch Law got its start representing people who had been in car crashes and found themselves facing other injuries they believed weren\u2019t their fault, but the firm was also just getting its footing during the Bronx\u2019s decade of constant fires, allowing it to fill a significant need in the community.<\/p>\n

The firm also has a strong guardianship practice with Lesch himself serving as the legal guardian for over half a dozen people, all of whom he sat with through hospice and helped bury. Lesch and his team help serve as court evaluators and support families in choosing the right person to be legally liable for and to make decisions on behalf of relatives who have become mentally or physically incapacitated, such as those struggling with dementia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cGuardianship work is extremely rewarding,\u201d Lesch said. \u201cPeople are just lonely, and they can\u2019t manage their money. I can help them. That\u2019s why I like guardianship work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Lesch and his firm focus primarily on their core of personal injury and guardianship legal services now, Lesch has and continues to work across a slew of other fields, including family law, helping people get divorces, and real estate law, helping people with transactions and even serving as a receiver, or legal administrator, for properties.<\/p>\n

While many attorneys focus on one field, having this wide breadth of knowledge across different practice areas is something Lesch feels passionately about and has always come naturally to him. At just seven years old, he\u2019d accompany his mother to St. John\u2019s Law School \u2013 which he eventually attended \u2013 as she sought her juris doctorate, sitting in the back of her lectures and listening.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was sitting in the back of the classes. I enjoyed being there, and I actually had some of the same professors she had ten years later,\u201d Lesch said. \u201cI always knew I was going to follow in my parents\u2019 footsteps. I had a great deal of respect for them and always wanted to be a part of what they were doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hitting the airwaves
\n\"\"Lesch stands with his son, who also attended St. John\u2019s Law School.<\/p>\n

His orientation toward learning and sharing that knowledge has served him well in his double life as a television correspondent for legal news shows on BronxNet, where he hosts programs that provide people with free, accessible legal advice on a variety of topics ranging from his personal injury specialty to immigration, landlord-tenant and civil rights issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been doing this for 36 years. I know my way around,\u201d Lesch said. \u201cI tend to know a lot about a lot of different things, whether it\u2019s false arrest or driving while intoxicated, or landlord-tenant issues \u2013 so many different things that I don\u2019t necessarily do, but I know about because I\u2019ve been doing this for so long and because I worked for a judge who did a lot of these things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI realized I could either become a professor, or I could start giving I could give my my advice on television, so more people can see,\u201d Lesch said. \u201cI chose to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Providing strong legal advice to a large Bronx audience is important, Lesch said, because it helps make critical knowledge of the law available to people who wouldn\u2019t otherwise have easy access to it. He said he responds to every call he gets from members of the public who saw his number on the show and are phoning in a question.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI get a lot of calls, even for work I don\u2019t do. I give it out to the lawyers who do it,\u201d Lesch said. \u201cFor example, I recorded a segment about what you should do if ICE knocks on your door, or pulls you over in a car, or they stop you on the street. They\u2019re all different scenarios in terms of how you should behave and what you should say, and what your legal rights are. When it airs, I\u2019ll get a lot of calls about ICE, and I\u2019ll refer them to an immigration attorney.\u201d<\/p>\n

While some of Lesch\u2019s segments simply involve him talking to the camera and providing people with advice on navigating legal issues they might be caught in, he also hosts and interviews experts and politicians to provide his community with additional information on a subject. The information they share on camera is informative and helpful to his community, Lesch said, but he\u2019s also able to leverage his relationships and time with them to ensure his clients are getting the help they need if he believes they have an issue an elected official he\u2019s talking to can solve.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes they represent my district right here, and I can say, \u2018Look, I have a client who has had bed bugs in her apartment for the last six months. Is there a way you can get the city\u2019s Department of Housing Preservation and Development involved or do something?\u2019 That\u2019s what I like.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Lesch at BronxNet.<\/p>\n

Those connections and knowledge Lesch fosters through his show help him better serve his clients, he said. It\u2019s also opened the door for Bronxites to come to him with questions about all sorts of legal and legally adjacent issues \u2013 even when they\u2019re not explicitly connected to a personal injury or guardianship case he\u2019s working on for them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI give legal advice to my clients all the time that has nothing to do with the kind of work I do,\u201d Lesch said. \u201cIf you tell me something that happened with you or your family, I can probably tell you what to do. And if I don\u2019t know exactly what you should do, I can get you to the right lawyer who can tell you what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt could be issues with a teacher who\u2019s not treating their child correctly, and it\u2019s not a lawsuit, but nobody hears them, nobody listens to them, so they come in to talk to me,\u201d Lesch elaborated. \u201cI always say to them, \u2018If you\u2019ve got a problem, come to me, I\u2019ll give you some time.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Doing that is important to Lesch because he sees serving his Bronx community as critical, and something his law degree makes him uniquely positioned to do effectively. He\u2019s taken the responsibility of being present in and in service to the community so seriously that strangers say hello to him on the street because they recognize him, and he\u2019s had to dismiss people from juries on cases he works on because they say they\u2019ve seen him around, watched his show, or know him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople recognize me a lot of times. I\u2019ll be walking around areas in the Bronx, and they\u2019ll say, \u2018Oh, I just saw you. You just did a segment on ICE and protections.\u2019 And the next thing I know, they\u2019re in the jury room, and they\u2019re on my jury panel,\u201d Lesch said with a laugh.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Lesch photographed while hosting his show, \u201cToday\u2019s Verdict.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lesch takes great pride in that, he says, and that the relationships he forms with his clients and community are what allow him to provide them with the best service possible. For example, when he wins clients monetary settlements, they have a high enough degree of trust in him that he\u2019s able to provide them with assistance and advice about how to most securely place the money in bank account, and has a strong relationship with the banks in the area that he\u2019s able to advocate for them in that office as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cClients are like family here,\u201d Lesch said. \u201cThey\u2019re not your regular clients. They come to us not because we\u2019re the biggest law firm, like Morgan and Morgan. They come to us because we treat them like family and yhey have issues that nobody wants to talk to them about. They come back because they always know that I\u2019ll be there for them for anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carrying forward that philosophy continues to keep him in the legal profession more than anything else.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThe honest truth is that I don\u2019t really do this for the money anymore,\u201d Lesch said. \u201cI don\u2019t. I\u2019m at the point where I could retire if I wanted. I do this just because I enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Lesch\u2019s family firm has spent decades getting Bronxites money after they\u2019ve been injured. Now the managing parnter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,135330,2710,135331,9,24,63,2152,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-365148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-bronx-net","tag-law","tag-lesch-law","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-personal-injury","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}