Special Licenses/Certifications:

• Certified by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Civil Trial Attorney.
• Certified as a Member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum.  The Million Dollar Advocates Forum is recognized as one of the most prestigious groups of trial lawyers in the United States.  Membership is limited to attorneys who have won million and multi-million dollar verdicts, awards and settlements.  Fewer than 1% of U.S. lawyers are members.

Bar/Professional Activity:

• President/Founder, Nutley Lawyers Club
• New Jersey Association for Justice

Pro bono/Community Service:

• Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Association of Trial Lawyers (now known as American Association for Justice) formed what ended up to be the largest pro bono legal service program in history, called Trial Lawyers Care.  By participating in Trial Lawyers Care, I (along with many, many other trial lawyers) represented victims of this tragedy pro bono, in presenting their respective claims to the September 11th Victims Compensation Fund., 2002

Verdicts and Settlements:

• Justice was served almost everytime in the last 19 years, but you can't win them all. I have handled nothing but personal injury and workers' compensation cases since I started practicing law. In my opinion, it is unfair to post the results of certain cases, because that may give you an unrealistic impression of what your or any other particular case may be worth. Every case is different, and every client is different. What may be a devastating injury to one client may not be that life-altering for another. For example, as terrible as it may be to lose a finger, I could still practice law - but it would be career-ending for a concert pianist, or perhaps a surgeon. Likewise, a machinist couldn't work with his/her head down all day with a bad neck injury, or a mason couldn't do his/her job with a permanent knee or back injury. As for the range of cases value-wise, on the high end I've earned a life membership into the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. On the low end, I take certain minor cases if the negligence ticks me off, even though it won't help me too much in paying my staff. For example, a landlord didn't clear the parking lot to his apartment building this past winter, and his tenants had to walk across this slippery, bumpy and ice-covered parking lot to get to and from their cars. When a young father was carrying his 3 month old daughter back from the his child's pediatrician visit, he slipped on the ice and his daughter went flying, bruising his daughter's face. Thankfully the child has no permanent injury, which means that the case doesn't have much in value, but I will make sure that the landlord is made to pay for this temporary injury, and more importantly, his insurance company gets on him to make sure he takes care of his property as he is obligated to do in the future. , 1992