Joseph Ginarte

Joseph A. Ginarte founded his legal practice in 1982 after a working-class upbringing in Newark, where both parents worked in factories. While studying at Kean University in Union, he worked full-time as a forklift operator and graduated magna cum laude. He earned his J.D. from Rutgers School of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Rutgers Law Record, and entered the law to represent injured workers, shaped by watching his father get hurt on the job and struggle to recover. The firm he built has grown steadily while many competitors have downsized.

His case results include a $9.5 million settlement in 1995 for a construction worker rendered quadriplegic after falling at a job site. He is admitted in New York, New Jersey, Washington D.C., and before the U.S. Supreme Court. He has served on the New Jersey Supreme Court Civil Practice Committee and was a former president of the National Trial Lawyers Top 100. He speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese.