Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2023 
Jordan A. Ziegler is a senior partner at Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano LLP in New York, New York. He represents clients in workers’ compensation, personal injury, and Social Security Disability matters, as well as civil service disability retirement pension claims involving the New York City, New York State, and local retirement systems. His practice also includes Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs. Mr. Ziegler serves as chair of the firm’s Civil Service Disability Retirement Pension Department.
Mr. Ziegler earned his law degree from The Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center at Touro College in New York and received his bachelor’s degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of New York. He is a member of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and is also involved with the National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) and the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH).
Throughout New York State, Mr. Ziegler serves as disability counsel to numerous police and law enforcement associations and Police Benevolent Associations, as well as utility worker and building trade unions. His roles include serving as a legal services provider to the Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association Legal Benefit Fund and as general counsel to the Suffolk County Police Columbia Association, the Suffolk County Police Asian Jade Society, and the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge in Riverhead, New York. He also provides disability counsel services to the Port Authority Police Benevolent Association, the New York State Troopers Police Benevolent Association, the Southampton Town Police Benevolent Association, and additional law enforcement unions and associations.
Mr. Ziegler serves as Vice-Chair of the Advisory Board of Occupational & Environmental Medicine of Long Island at the Northwell Health/North Shore-LIJ Health System. He also participates on the New York City advisory board of the Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health, part of the World Trade Center Health Program within the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at Mount Sinai-Selikoff, and the NYU/Bellevue occupational and environmental clinics addressing workers’ compensation issues in New York.
He developed and established workers’ compensation class curricula taught at the New York City District Council of Carpenters Labor Technical College and the Empire State Regional Council Carpenters Shop Steward Certification and Apprenticeship Training Programs, where he regularly lectures. Mr. Ziegler also speaks at training programs for utility workers, trade unions, and law enforcement organizations on topics including workers’ compensation, Social Security Disability, personal injury, and disability retirement pensions.
In addition, Mr. Ziegler serves as an adjunct professor and lecturer at Touro Law School (Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center) in Central Islip, New York. He has also lectured and collaborated with the New York State AFL-CIO on its Workers’ Compensation Navigator Program.
Mr. Ziegler writes columns for magazines, newsletters, and journals published by utility worker, trade union, and law enforcement associations. He is the author of “The Little txt Book of Workers Comp” and “The Little txt Book of Civil Service Disability Pensions.”
He is involved in several community and charitable organizations. Mr. Ziegler serves as Second Vice Chair of Ronald McDonald House Metro New York and is a member of the board of directors of the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society. He is also a member of the Eastern Long Island Police Pipes and Drums and the Port Authority Police Department Pipes and Drums bands. He previously served as president of Glen Oaks Club and was recognized by Boardroom Magazine as one of the nation’s top twenty-two club presidents in 2021.
From 2006 through 2025, Mr. Ziegler has been included on the Super Lawyers list in the area of workers’ compensation.
Mr. Ziegler resides in Great Neck, New York, with his wife, Wendy, and their two sons, Zachary and Benjamin.
