Practices in areas of Mass Tort  & Mass Disaster Litigation, Wrongful Death, Personal Injuries, Traumatic
Brain and Head Injuries, Automobile Liability, Premises Liability, Employment Litigation, Professional Negligence, Product Liability and Drug Litigation.

Counsel for State of New Jersey against Tobacco Industry.

Licensed to practice law before all State and Federal Courts in New Jersey, District of Columbia,
New York and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Appeared before the New Jersey State Legislature to testify on pending bills affecting the citizens
and consumers of New Jersey.

Selected as New Jersey Super Lawyer 2007-2008 and a top 100 lawyer for the year 2007
Selected as New Jersey Super Lawyer for 2006
Top Ten Leaders of Personal Injury and Trial Law - 2003-2004
Top Ten Leaders for Civil Trial Law - 2004-2005
Who's Who in America Millennium Edition 2000 – present
Who's Who in American Law 1987 - present
Who's Who in the World 1996 - present
Rated A.V. - Martindale Hubbell
Million Dollar Advocates Forum

Activities and Offices

ASSOCIATION OF TRIAL LAWYERS OF AMERICA - N.J. - (ATLA- NJ)

• Vice Chair of ATLA-NJ PAC 2002 - 2003
• Past President of ATLA-N.J 1997 - 1998
• ATLA N.J. Legal Pac Trustee 1997 - 2003
• President of ATLA-N.J. 1996 - 1997
• President Elect of ATLA N.J l995 - l996
• Chair ATLA NJ Education Foundation l995 - l996
• First Vice President of ATLA N.J. 1994 - 1995
• Second Vice President of ATLA N.J. 1993 - 1994
• Third Vice President of ATLA N.J 1992 - 1993
• Treasurer of ATLA N.J. 1991 - 1992
• Education Chair ATLA N.J l991 - l996
• Secretary of ATLA N.J. 1990 - 1991
• Board of Governors of ATLA N.J. 1987 - present
• Chairman Membership Committee of ATLA N.J 1989 - 1990
• Co-Chair Membership Committee of ATLA N.J. 1988 - 1989
• Member Legislative Committee ATLA N.J. 1987 - 1988
• ATLA PAC - 300 Club Member 1987 to Present
• Associate Editor N.J. Trial Lawyer Magazine l987 - l994

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE

• Member of the Executive Committee - Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group l995-present
• ATLA Chairperson of Motor Vehicle, Premises and Highway Liability Section l992-l993
• Position of Brain Injury Consultant in New Jersey - 1991-1992
• ATLA First Vice-Chair of Motor Vehicle, Premises and Highway Liability Section - 1991-1992
• ATLA Second Vice-Chair of Motor Vehicle, Premises & Highway Liability Section - 1990-1991
• ATLA Membership Committee 1989-1990
• M Club - 1987-1996
• Sustaining Member of Association of Trial Lawyers of America

Lectures and Teaching Positions

• Invited Speaker at Brain Injury Association of NJ, Inc.
  Traumatic Brain Injury: New Jersey Law and Insurance Working for You
  Eatontown, New Jersey
  May 17, 2006
• Invited Speaker at Brain Injury Association of NJ, Inc.
  Traumatic Brain Injury: New Jersey Law Working for You
  Eatontown, New Jersey
  May 19, 2005
• Invited Speaker at New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education
  Medicine for Lawyers - How to Evaluate and Represent a Client
  with Traumatic Brain Injury
  Fairfield, New Jersey
  September 18, 2003
• Invited Speaker at Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group Seminar-
  Association of Trial Lawyers of America National Representing Brain Injured Clients with Concurrent Psychiatric Disturbances
  San Francisco, California
  July 20, 2003
• Invited Speaker at Brain Injury Association of New Jersey, Inc.
  Getting the Money you Deserve! Individual Reimbursement from Insurance Companies.
  Edison, New Jersey
  May 16, 2003
• Invited Speaker at Association of Trial Lawyers of America - NJ
  Winning at Trial: Direct and Cross Examination of Experts
  Pines Manor, Edison, New Jersey
  December 7, 2002
• Invited Speaker at National Business Institute
  Planning Ahead to Avoid Legal Malpractice and Attorney Ethics
  Saddle Brook, New Jersey
  October 7, 2002
• Invited Speaker at the Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group Seminar
  Association of Trial Lawyers of America National
  2000 ATLA Annual Convention
  Chicago, Illinois
  July, 2000
• Moderator at the Association of Trial Lawyers of America
  l997 Annual Convention
  San Diego, California
  Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group
  July 2l, 1997
• Featured Speaker and Moderator at the Association of Trial Lawyers of America-NJ
  as President of ATLA-NJ
  Boardwalk Convention
  Atlantic City, New Jersey
  April 1997
• Moderator at the Southern Trial Lawyers Association Conference
  New Orleans, Louisiana
  February, 1997
• Invited Speaker at the Traumatic Brain Injury Seminar
  Presented by Lorman Education Services
  New Orleans, Louisiana
  November 2l and 22, 1996
• Invited Speaker New Jersey Head Injury Association
  The Traumatic Brain Injury Seminar
  Co-sponsored by ATLA-NJ, Trial Attorneys of
  New Jersey and Defense Research Institute
  Woodbridge, New Jersey
  March 9, 1996
• Speaker ATLA-NJ Boardwalk Seminar and Convention
  Atlantic City, New Jersey
  March 15, 1995
  Top Ten in Torts in New Jersey
• Program Chair and Speaker ATLA-NJ
  Pines Manor-Edison, New Jersey
  Winning Big in Traumatic Brain Injury Cases
  February 11, 1995
• Featured Speaker New Jersey Head Injury Association Annual Convention
  Eatontown, New Jersey
  April 29, 1994
• Speaker ATLA Boardwalk Seminar
  Atlantic City, New Jersey
  March 25, 1994
  Top Ten in Torts in New Jersey
• Speaker ATLA-NJ
  Woodbridge, New Jersey
  How to Successfully Arbitrate Your Client's Automobile PIP Claim
  February 12, 1994
• Program Chairman and Speaker ATLA-NJ
  Woodbridge, New Jersey
  Winning Big in Closed Head Injury Cases
  February 12, 1994
• Speaker ICLE - N.J. Domestic Torts
  New Jersey State Bar Center
  New Brunswick, New Jersey
  December 18, 1993
• Speaker ATLA-NJ - Trial Academy
  October, 1993
• Facilitator New Jersey Head Injury Association Annual Convention
  Eatontown, New Jersey
  May 1, 1993
• Co-Chairman ATLA-NJ Boardwalk Convention
  Atlantic City, New Jersey
  April, 1993
• Program Chairman and Speaker ATLA-NJ
  Edison, New Jersey
  Governmental Tort Claims
  February 20, 1993
• Program Chair, Trial Academy I - ATLA-NJ
  Edison, New Jersey
  Fall, 1992
• Program Chairman and Speaker ATLA-NJ
  Edison, New Jersey
  Premises Liability Seminar
  February 8, 1992
• Facilitator New Jersey Head Injury Association Annual Convention
  Princeton, New Jersey
  November 1991
• Speaker ATLA Convention
  Toronto, Canada
  July 1991
• Chairman Education Seminars - ATLA-NJ
  June 1991 to June 1993
  Landmark Inn, Woodbridge, New Jersey
• Program Chairman and Lecturer - ATLA-NJ - Governmental Tort Claims,
  February, 1990
• Program Chairman and Moderator - ATLA-NJ - Boardwalk Seminar
  April 1990
  Atlantic City, New Jersey
• Program Chairman, Moderator and Speaker ATLA-NJ
  Edison, New Jersey
  Auto Arbitration Seminar
  December 1, 1990
• Lecturer - Toxic Torts - ATLA Convention
  San Diego, California
  July 1990
• Lecturer - Plaintiffs Trial Academy I - ATLA-NJ
  October 1989
• Lecturer Mass Disaster Litigation
  July, 1989
  Mass Disaster Litigation Melvin M. Belli Society
  Boston, Massachusetts
• Program Chairman and Lecturer N.J. ATLA and ATLA Joint Seminar
  Princeton, New Jersey
  on Environmental and Toxic Torts
  November 1988
• Trial Academy I, N.J. ATLA - N.J. - May 1988
• Lecturer Tort Reform Act ATLA-NJ
  March 1988
  Edison, New Jersey
• Lecturer Toxic Tort Litigation
  July, 1987
  Mass Tort Litigation Melvin M. Belli Society
  San Francisco, California
• Montclair State College
  Upper Montclair, New Jersey
  Adjunct Professor - 1980

Education

• B.S. Psychology University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Psi Chi (National Honor
  Society Psychology)
• Phi Alpha Theta (International Honor Society History)
• J.D. University of Miami - Coral Gables, Florida
• Society of Bar and Gavel - University of Miami Law School

Publications

• N.J. Trial Lawyer - Liability of Insurance Agents - July 1989
• N.J. Trial Lawyer - Preparing the Personal Injury Case to Win - (Part I) - March 1991
• N.J. Trial Lawyer - Preparing the Personal Injury Case to Win (Part II) - July 1991
• N.J. Trial Lawyer - Preparing the Personal Injury Case to Win (Part III) - May 1992
• New Jersey Medicine - Should Insurance Companies be Held Liable for Not Paying Claims?
  March, 1997

Memberships

• Member Brain Injury Association, Inc.
• Gold Member Brain Injury Association of New Jersey
• Member Executive Committee of Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group
• National Employment Lawyers Association
• New Jersey Employee Lawyers Association
• Member New Jersey State Bar Association
• Member Essex County Bar Association
• Member Executive Committee, New Jersey State Bar Association; Young Lawyers Division, 1981-1983

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