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33 distinguished personal injury law attorneys in New Jersey, each reviewed by the Lawyers of Distinction Selection Committee.

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Martin Cedzidlo

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.

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Matthew Schiappa

Matthew Schiappa

Featured Lawyer

Personal Injury Law

4 Paragon Way, Suite 100, Freehold, NJ 07728

Matthew A. Schiappa is a Partner who focuses his practice on representing plaintiffs in personal injury, medical malpractice and product defect cases. Mr. Schiappa also represents Petitioners in workers compensation matters. In 2013, Mr. Schiappa received the designation as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney by the New Jersey Supreme Court. He was admitted to the New York Bar and the New Jersey Bar in 1997 as well as the Pennsylvania Bar in 2007. Prior to joining Lomurro Davison, Mr. Schiappa was a partner of the law firm of Clemente Mueller, P.A. wherein he defended clients in asbestos, toxic tort, environmental and construction defect cases. For the last several years there, Mr. Schiappa began developing a practice representing plaintiffs in medical malpractice actions. Mr. Schiappa completely transitioned to the Plaintiff's side of the practice when he joined the Galex Law Firm in 2010 and thereafter, when the Galex Law Firm was merged into in 2012. In addition to being admitted to and appearing in the State Courts of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Mr. Schiappa is admitted to and has appeared in the Federal Districts Courts for the District of New Jersey, the Southern District of New York and the Eastern District of New York. Mr. Schiappa is also admitted to and has argued cases before the Second Circuit and Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Schiappa is a member of several professional associations including the New Jersey Association for Justice, the New Jersey State Bar Association, the Trial Attorneys of New Jersey, the Monmouth Bar Association and the Middlesex County Bar Association. Mr. Schiappa brings wealth of experience and knowledge to the Personal Injury/Medical Malpractice Department of Lomurro Law.

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Michael A. Ferrara, Jr.

Michael A. Ferrara, Jr.

Distinguished Lawyer

Personal Injury Law

601 Longwood Ave #38, Cherry Hill, NJ 08002, USA

Michael Ferrara is a proud trial lawyer, having tried over 250 jury trials over his 50-year career. He was born and raised in Philadelphia and graduated from Villanova with a B.S. in Mathematics. After serving five years as a Naval Officer, including service in Vietnam, he went to law school at the University of San Diego where he serves on their Board of Visitors. Mr. Ferrara is a partner at Ferrara & Gable, LLC, a past president of the New Jersey Trial Lawyers Association (NJAJ), and former member of the Board of Governors of AAJ. He is a frequent speaker at trial lawyer seminars and a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. He was the founder of the New Jersey Trial Lawyer’s PAC and served on county and federal judicial selection committees. He is certified as a Civil Trial Attorney by the New Jersey Supreme Court and a past president of the South Jersey chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). He served on the boards of the Amigos de Jesus orphanage in Honduras, West Catholic H.S. in Philadelphia, and the San Miquel School in Camden. He was the founder of the Marlton Track Club and enjoyed coaching youth sports. His non-lawyer activities include being the owner and CEO of Cellular One, a cellular telephone company in Wichita Falls, Texas; a guest speaker at a joint session of the Russian legislature on the topic of home mortgages; and the host of The People’s Law School, a talk radio show on WPHT, the CBS affiliate in Philadelphia. He was co-counsel representing the State of New Jersey in the landmark tobacco litigation and counsel for many clients in the Vioxx litigation. Some of his significant appellate victories include imposing a duty upon doctors to provide litigation assistance to their clients, and establishing guidelines for what auto crash victims need to prove when they have pre-existing conditions. Some of his awards include the ATLA-NJ Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement, the Trial Bar Award from the Trial Attorneys of New Jersey (TANJ), and the State Bar Professionalism Award. He recently was honored for his pro bono service by the N.J. Supreme Court.

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Michael Fruhling

Michael Fruhling

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Personal Injury Law

157 Engle St, Englewood, NJ 07631, USA

Michael A Fruhling joined Gersowitz, Libo and Korek, P.C. in 1991 and became partner in 1999. He specializes in a wide variety of personal injury cases, and focuses his practice on medical malpractice in New York and New Jersey including Cerebral Palsy, Erb’s Palsy, Stillbirth and other birth related injuries. Michael is recognized in both Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers for his successes as a personal injury and medical malpractice attorney in New York. Michael sits on the Board of Governors for the New Jersey Association for Justice. In this role, he has fought to strengthen the laws to help consumers, as well as the victims of medical malpractice and personal injury in New Jersey. Michael has been published in the New York Law Journal and has been recognized in numerous publications, including New York Magazine for his work in medical malpractice. He has been admitted to the Bar in all Courts of the State of New York and New Jersey, as well as the Eastern, Southern and Northern Districts of the Federal Court of New York and the Western District of the Federal Court of New Jersey.

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