A lawyer who helped secure a $172 million jury award against New York City for his brain-damaged client predicted the judgment would be “unassailable” on appeal.

Thomas Moore of Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore credited his certainty to having presented the case to a Bronx jury over the past three weeks under parameters laid down by the Court of Appeals a year ago when it allowed the case of his client, Tiffany Applewhite, to go to trial.