About Marc Saperstein

Marc C. Saperstein is a founding partner of Davis, Saperstein & Salomon, P.C. and is certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney, a distinction held by fewer than 2% of New Jersey lawyers. He is also admitted to the New York Bar and heads the firm's New York Personal Injury Practice Group. Saperstein is a past president of the New Jersey Association for Justice and has served as its co-founder and co-chair of the annual Meadowlands Seminar. He has won million-dollar or multimillion-dollar verdicts or settlements for more than 50 clients, including a $20 million verdict for an injured New York construction worker.

Earlier in his career, he filed class actions against major tobacco companies and against American Home Products for injuries caused by the diet drug Phen-Fen. He co-founded the firm in 1988 with Samuel L. Davis and Garry R. Salomon. A graduate of Rutgers University (B.A., Economics) and Emory University School of Law, Saperstein previously served as a New Jersey municipal prosecutor and municipal court judge for over 15 years. He has been named a New Jersey Super Lawyer for 15 consecutive years and has received recognition from Martindale-Hubbell and the National Trial Lawyers.

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.

$28 millionSettlementTop 20 in New Jersey · #9

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.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Essex County · 2023Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
$15 millionSettlement

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.

U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey · 2016Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$9.5 millionVerdict

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.

Bergen County Superior Court, NJ · 2016Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$5.3 millionSettlement

A woman who slipped on grease in a common area shared by her employer and LAVO, a nightclub-restaurant then owned by a Madison Square Garden Entertainment subsidiary, suffered neck and back injuries requiring multiple surgeries and settled her case for $5.3 million in 2023.

New York (settlement) · 2023Slip & FallRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Emory University School of Law
J.D., 1978
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Undergraduate, 1975

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of New Jersey
State Bar of New York
State Bar of Georgia

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.