Fort Lee, NJ Lawyers

Personal Injury Law

201 Columbia Ave, Fort Lee, NJ 07024, USA

Christopher T. DiGirolamo is the Managing Partner of Maggiano, DiGirolamo & Lizzi P.C., a nationally recognized personal injury law firm based in Fort Lee, New Jersey. He brings over three decades of trial experience, successfully representing clients in complex litigation involving motor vehicle accidents, construction site injuries, workers' compensation claims, premises liability, and defective products. His results-driven approach and relentless advocacy have led to numerous multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements, including his role as co-counsel in a landmark $101 million personal injury recovery stemming from a construction accident—one of the largest of its kind in U.S. history. Mr. DiGirolamo is admitted to practice law in the State and Federal Courts of New Jersey, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. He is deeply committed to protecting the rights of injured workers and personal injury victims.

Personal Injury Law

2050 Center Ave, STE 120, Fort Lee, NJ 07024

Martin S. Cedzidlo is a graduate of Rutgers University- Newark and Delaware Law School. He was admitted to the Bar of New Jersey and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey in 1983. Mr. Cedzidlo was the Law Secretary to the Hon. Ralph A. Polito, JSC upon graduating law school. He then entered private practice focusing on Civil Litigation of all types, including Personal Injury matters, Commercial litigation, Chancery litigation, Divorce litigation, and Prerogative Writ matters. In addition to his varied Civil Trial practice, Mr. Cedzidlo was a Municipal Prosecutor for the Borough of River Edge, Bergen County from 1990 through 1996, and handled select criminal matters. Mr. Cedzidlo eventually focused his career in Personal Injury litigation, and became a Board Certified Civil Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey in 1997. He is also Board Certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Mr. Cedzidlo has extensive trial experience, having tried to verdict hundreds of cases on behalf of his clients, including automobile accident cases, premises liability cases, Worker's Compensation cases, Malpractice cases, and Chancery cases involving contested wills and estates. Mr. Cedzidlo is also currently serving as the Planning Board and Zoning Board of Adjustment attorney for the Borough of Wallington, and has held those positions for the past six years. Mr. Cedzidlo has also lectured in the field of Civil Trials on behalf of the New Jersey Association for Justice Educational Foundation, teaching other attorneys techniques on properly conducting Civil Trials and proper examination techniques for witnesses.

Personal Injury Law

201 Columbia Ave, Fort Lee, NJ 07024, USA

Michael Maggiano, the founder and senior partner of Maggiano, DiGirolamo & Lizzi, has specialized in all areas of motor vehicle collisions from auto to trucking and bus accidents as well as train wrecks for over 45 years now! He has worked as part of the trial team in the largest construction accident case in New Jersey and perhaps U.S. history. He was counsel in the In re Amtrak Train Disaster of 2015. He has handled high profile cases around the country in all areas from inadequate motel and hotel security cases, to mishandling of bodies and medical malpractice, achieving seven and eight-figure recoveries routinely. He was awarded the New Jersey Association for Justice Gold Medal Award. Received the Professor Clapp Lecturer Laureate by the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal education. Received the “Mel” Award for achievements in Civil Litigation by the Melvin M. Belli Society. Received a Life Time Achievement Award from Chicago Kent College of Law as one of the most highly recognized alumni in its one hundred and twenty-five year history. He has been called in as lead trial counsel by many lawyers around the country as he is known to be able to try any type of personal injury successfully and has the documented track record to prove it. He is widely acknowledged by his peers as one of the top trial lawyers in the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan area. He has tried cases throughout this area as well as various other states of the United States. Maggiano is licensed to practice law before all State and Federal Courts in New Jersey and New York. He is also licensed to practice law before the Supreme Court of the United States Certified as a civil trial attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey and the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Maggiano’s education includes a Juris Doctor with Honors in 1974 from IIT-Chicago Kent College of Law with a class rank of 17 in a class of 160. He also went on to graduate from Fairleigh Dickenson University with a Bachelor of Science Economics in 1970. As far as public appearances go, Maggiano has spoken at dozens of conventions and seminars around the country on legal topics and continues to do so actively. His topics range from the intricacies of legal techniques and strategies to specialized medical situations. He has appeared on both local and national television on various topics in the law. His cases and trials have been reported both in the general media and legal reporting journals. He has also had dozens of his articles published about winning for the injured in leading legal journals. Maggiano is also a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and an Advocate Member of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He is a past President of the New Jersey Association for Justice and the Melvin M. Belli Society, which is a highly select society of trial lawyers and barristers with notable members throughout the world.

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.

Personal Injury Law

1386 Palisade Ave, Fort Lee, NJ 07024, USA

Rosemarie Arnold was born on June 9, 1962 to Iris Arnold, a school teacher, and Dr. Murray Arnold, an obstetrician gynecologist. Her dad passed away when she was 5 years old, leaving her mother to raise their 6 children in Washington Heights, New York. She graduated with honors from the Bronx High School of Science in 1979, where she was the captain of the women's swim team. In 1983, at age 20, Arnold graduated from The State University of New York at Binghamton, then headed to Brooklyn Law School where she was a member of the Moot Court Honor Society and captain of the negotiating team. After graduating from law school in 1986, Arnold began her career at the Law Offices of Christian Stueben, where she represented predominantly large corporate defendants, such as Foodtown, Pathmark, Stop & Shop, Campbell's Soup Company, Arcola Bus Company, Bally’s Total Fitness, T.G.I. Fridays, Libby’s Foods and Cigna Insurance Company. In 1989, feeling unfulfilled with defense litigation, Arnold founded The Law Offices Rosemarie Arnold, (a firm devoted to the representation of injured victims), in a one room office in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey which she shared with her paralegal Mary Mazza. Thirty years later, Arnold has built her law firm into one of the largest and most successful plaintiffs firms in Bergen County where Mary Mazza serves as the CFO. Between 1989 and the present, Arnold has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements and judgments for her grateful clients and succeeded in scores of high profile cases. Arnold has been called upon to give her legal expertise to the NY Times, Daily News, New York Post and Wall Street Journal. She has also appeared as a legal expert on Good Morning America, the Today Show, The Early Show, Maury Povich, NY1, ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX News, Inside Edition, and Extra TV. Notably in 2013, Arnold was named EXTRA TV’s legal correspondent.