Lewis J. Lubell

Justice Lubell is a retired Justice of the Supreme Court in Westchester County and ended his tenure on the bench supervising the Settlement Part in Westchester County.

Justice Lubell graduated from Fordham University in 1977 and prior to entering law school in 1991, Justice Lubell had an extensive and successful business career in sales and senior level corporate management. While attending law school he also interned for the NYC Office of the Corporation Counsel and the Office of the Nassau County Attorney specifically handling tort and civil rights litigation.

Upon graduation from Touro College Law School in 1994 and admission to the New York and New Jersey bars, Justice Lubell spent his career as a trial attorney litigating complex medical malpractice, products liability and aviation disaster cases. He continued in this role until his election to the Supreme Court in the 9th Judicial District bench in November 2005.

Prior to his election Judge Lubell served as the Acting Village Justice in Ardsley from April, 2003 until taking his position on the Supreme Court Bench in January 2006. He was then assigned to Orange County Supreme Court until June, 2006 when he was transferred back to Westchester County and assigned to the Matrimonial Part handling strictly matrimonial matters until January, 2009, when he was reassigned back to Orange County as a full time IAS judge handling all civil matters and trials.

In January 2011, he was transferred to Putnam County where he sat in an IAS trial part and was appointed by the 9th Judicial District Administrative Judge as the reserve Civil Trial Judge for the Supreme Court for the 9th Judicial District handling complex civil trials throughout the district.

In January 2016, Judge Lubell returned to Westchester County where he sat in a Civil Trial Part and, in 2017, was appointed Supervising Judge for Matrimonial Matters for the 9th Judicial District by the Administrative Judge with responsibility for all matrimonial and Post Judgment matters.   Along with that assignment and by appointment of the Deputy Chief Administrative Judge for the NYC trial courts, Justice Lubell presided over the Bronx County Medical Malpractice Part from March through December of 2018 conducting settlement conferences, trial assignments, hearings and trials.  Further, during Covid, and again by appointment of the Deputy Chief Administrative Judge of the NYC trial courts, Justice Lubell presided over a Manhattan IAS trial part virtually from February 2021 through January 2022.

In November 2021, he was appointed Districtwide Coordinator for General Civil Matters for the 9^th Judicial District where he handles the Trial Assignment Part, the Medical Malpractice Part, Mediations and complex Civil trials.  In September 2025 Judge Lubell became Supervising Judge for the Settlement Part where he conducts mandatory post Note of Issue settlements pre-trial as well as Infant Compromises and Wrong Death Compromises.  He also conducts carrier block-buster settlement days and mediations.

In July, 2026, Justice Lubell retired from the Supreme Court bench and joined NAM (Nation Arbitration and Mediation) as a hearing officer conducting virtual and In Person mediations and arbitrations.  He also joined the firm of Abrams Fensterman as Senior Counsel assisting and advising partners and Associates in a variety of subject matters.

Judge Lubell is also a Fellow of ASTAR (Advanced Science and Technology Adjudication Resource Center) and NCSI (National Courts and Science Institute) which provides advanced scientific training to the judiciary nationally. He continues to actively lecture at CLE’s, lectures at Judicial Training classes and participates in Moot Court and mock appellate arguments and trials for various law schools.