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Mitchell J. Makowicz, Jr.

Mitchell J. Makowicz, Jr.

Distinguished Lawyer

Medical Malpractice Law

1 Main St, Chatham, NJ 07928, USA

Mitchell J. Makowicz, Jr., is a Shareholder at Blume Forte. He is a New Jersey Supreme Court Certified Civil Trial Attorney with experience in various types of medical malpractice, product liability, premises liability, and other personal injury cases.

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Natalie Zammitti Shaw

Natalie Zammitti Shaw

Featured Lawyer

Personal Injury Law

1386 Palisade Ave, Fort Lee, NJ 07024, USA

NATALIE A. ZAMMITTI SHAW is a partner of the Law Offices Rosemarie Arnold. She attended college at the University of Delaware where she received her B.A. in Mass Communications and minored in Japanese. She graduated from Seton Hall School of Law in 1998 where she earned her Juris Doctorate. Mrs. Zammitti Shaw is licensed to practice law in the states of New Jersey and New York as well as the United States District Court for the district of New Jersey. After graduation, she immediately set her focus on litigation and trial practice. In 1998 she had the distinct privilege to appear before the Dutch Court in St. Martin, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, regarding hurricane-damaged property in the Netherlands Antilles. In 1999 she was afforded the opportunity to second chair a trial for an election contest for the Alpine Mayoral election. Originally a native of northern New Jersey she became involved in local politics at an early age and was elected to the Paramus Borough Council at the age of 31, the youngest woman to serve, for the 2004-2006 term. For the last 15 years of her career, Ms. Zammitti Shaw has represented thousands of clients and fought tirelessly for the victims of personal injury accidents including automobile negligence, premises liability, construction defects, fire losses, products liability, truck accidents, wrongful death, and dog bites as well as employment discrimination. Ms. Zammitti Shaw has had great success in the courtroom. In 2010 she was a member of the legal team that won $7.4 million for a cardiologist who sustained life threatening injuries in Hackensack, NJ due to a drunken driving crash. In 2013 she tried a case in which a jury awarded a 38-year-old Paterson man $672,670.84 for injuries he suffered when a garage door came down and hit him in the head as he was working at a Wayne country club. Over the course of a 15 year period Ms. Zammitti Shaw has tried dozens of cases and has obtained millions of dollars’ in verdicts and settlements for her clients. Mrs. Zammitti Shaw attributes her success to relentless preparation and hard work. Mrs. Zammitti Shaw is certified by Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney. Certified civil trial attorney designations are granted by the New Jersey Supreme Court to attorneys, who are able to demonstrate efficient levels of experience, education, knowledge and skill in civil trial practice. Less than 2% of attorneys have the honor of this accreditation. In 2022, Mrs. Zammitti Shaw was chosen to be a Master in the Justice Morris Pashman American Inn of Court to teach and mentor young lawyers in the skills of trial advocacy, civility, professionalism and ethics. Mrs. Zammitti Shaw has made numerous appearances on Fox Business and Fox News as a commentator. She is a member of the Bergen County Bar Association and the New Jersey Bar Association.

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Noah Kane

Noah Kane

Member

Civil Litigation

550 Kinderkamack Rd, Oradell, NJ 07649, USA

Area of Practice: Consumer Protection Noah Kane, Esq., has spent his career on the consumer's side of the courtroom. He's represented hundreds of plaintiffs in individual and class actions—fighting banks, lenders, debt collectors, and large corporations, and recovering six- and seven-figure results for his clients. Noah is licensed in New York, New Jersey, and Maryland, with federal court admissions and cocounsel relationships across the country. Noah has been featured in the American Banker and the Cardozo Law Review. Noah founded Kane Law Firm LLC with a simple motto: if they wronged you, they should pay — not you. (We sue big companies, too.) You don't pay us out of pocket. We only get paid if we win.

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Patrick McGuinness

Patrick McGuinness

Distinguished Lawyer

Immigration Law

120 W 7th St suite 212, Plainfield, NJ 07060, USA

Patrick C. McGuinness has established a solo practice law firm in 2005 which he has grown to include two attorneys and six full-time paralegals and support staff. His goal has been to offer a wide range of professional but reasonably priced legal services to the immigrant community. Mr. McGuinness is a graduate of Siena College (1984) and Brooklyn Law School (1997) and has been an admitted attorney in New Jersey and New York for over twenty (20) years. After graduating college, Mr. McGuinness spent two summers in the Dominican Republic learning Spanish and began what has turned out to be a life-long quest to better understand Latino culture. He then spent one winter in El Paso, Texas as a volunteer for a non-profit organization providing sustenance and legal support to individuals entering the United States from Central American and Mexico who were seeking a better life and/or fleeing violence. After graduating from law school in 1997, he worked as a litigator at a major New York law firm for approximately five (5) years before returning to his roots specializing in immigration law. Mr. McGuinness has diverse experience in the immigration area ranging from assisting individuals in: obtaining O-1, H-1B and L-1 employment visas; securing amnesty in the 1980s; and defending against deportation and removal. He established a solo practice law firm in 2005 which he has grown to include two attorneys and six full-time paralegals and support staff. His goal has been to offer a wide range of professional but reasonably priced legal services to the immigrant community. Mr. McGuinness firmly believes the United States has greatly benefited from its immigrants and he is committed to assisting them through the labyrinthine immigration system and otherwise helping them in successfully adjusting to life in this country.

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