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Serving clients in New Jersey and New York

At Byrnes Kirkwood, we strive to provide clients with competent and aggressive representation tailored to meet the needs or our individual and business clients.  Working within the framework of the legal system, we seek innovative solutions to our clients' legal challenges. When disputes cannot be effectively resolved or mediated, we have the experience and tenacity to protect our clients' rights at trial.

Our firm handles a wide range of legal matters, with concentrations in personal injury, estate planning, probate, wrongful termination, lost benefits claims and commercial litigation. We provide experienced representation in other vital legal matters, including workers' compensation, elder law and employment law.

Experienced that Makes a Difference

Our partners, Sean F. Byrnes and Christopher Kirkwood, have more than 40 years of combined legal experience. As experienced negotiators and trial attorneys, they have helped individuals and businesses throughout New Jersey and New York find solutions to complex legal challenges.  Good results don't always involve litigation, and Byrnes Kirkwood seeks outcomes that best serve a client's needs.

From serious personal injury to complex commercial litigation, our firm has established a proven record of results. At Byrnes Kirkwood, you can be confident that your case will be handled with the highest degree of competence, care and professionalism.

Knowledgeable Attorneys Serving Your Legal Needs

Covering a range of practice areas, the depth of our legal experience provide clients with a decided advantage across a wide spectrum of legal issues. We bring to each case a depth of knowledge and experience that is rooted in a solid foundation of transactional work, trial advocacy, estate planning, corporate formation and acquisitions, land use, and construction liens among other areas of the law.

Licensed in New Jersey and New York

Our lawyers are licensed to practice in the courts of New Jersey and New York. To learn how we can help you, contact us directly by calling our Red Bank office at 732-219-7711 or contact us by e-mail.

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Past Case Results
  • Motor Vehicle - Passenger sustains multiple fractures - $1,400,000.00
  • Motor Vehicle - Driver struck in the rear sustained back injuries requiring surgery - $625,000.00
  • Elevator Accident - Wrongful Death of Child - $525,000.00
  • Construction Accident - Worker sustained fractured elbow - $450,000.00
  • Slip and Fall on Ice - Pedestrian sustained back injuries requiring surgery - $350,000.00
  • Industrial accident with electric shock resulting in Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy - $2,300,000.00
  • Consumer Fraud - Judgment against unscrupulous home contractor - $1,800,000.00
  • Motor Vehicle - Wrongful Death - $725,000.00
  • Motor Vehicle - Pedestrian sustained fractured ankle - $225,000.00
  • Motor Vehicle - Passenger sustained fractured ankle - $257,500.00