About Manuel Sameiro
Manuel B. Sameiro, Jr. is a senior associate at Davis, Saperstein & Salomon, P.C. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Rutgers University in 1985 with bachelor's degrees in Economics and Finance, as a member of the university's Honors Program and inductee of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. He earned his J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law-Newark in 1988. After beginning his career at the law firm of Hannoch Weisman, where he worked on complex civil litigation, he joined the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office and spent over 25 years handling serious criminal matters including capital murder, sexual assault, armed robbery, and kidnapping, trying over 150 cases. He is admitted to practice in New Jersey and before the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Upon retiring from public service, Sameiro joined Davis, Saperstein & Salomon to represent personal injury clients, bringing the discipline and courtroom experience gained from decades of criminal prosecution to civil cases.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Davis Saperstein & Salomon
These results are credited to Davis Saperstein & Salomon. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
Carlos Gomez was burned over 60 percent of his body when an electrical panel exploded while he worked in a Newark office building in 2019. His suit against IDT Corp. and other defendants settled for $28 million, approved by the Essex County Superior Court in February 2023 and ranked by the New Jersey Law Journal as the largest reported New Jersey personal injury settlement of the court's 2022-2023 term.
A 10-year-old girl lost two toes and underwent 22 surgeries after her foot was pulled into a decades-old, poorly maintained Macy's escalator at Garden State Plaza in Paramus; three years later, Macy's and ThyssenKrupp Elevator settled for $15 million.
A Bergen County jury awarded $9.5 million to sisters Gina and Jamie Franzino after a 31-foot Boston Whaler collided with their small skiff in the Manasquan Inlet on Memorial Day weekend 2009, killing a third passenger and leaving both women with severe injuries.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
