About Joseph Maggiano

Joseph Maggiano is a personal injury attorney representing individuals and families harmed by negligence, recklessness, and wrongful conduct. His practice focuses on motor vehicle accidents, trucking accidents, premises liability, catastrophic injury, and wrongful death. He earned his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University and his Juris Doctor from John Marshall Law School in Atlanta. Maggiano combines strategic advocacy with client-focused preparation and responsiveness. He is an active member of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) and the New Jersey Association for Justice (NJAJ), serves as Co-Chair of the New Lawyers Committee, and is a member of the Justice Morris Pashman American Inn of Court.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Maggiano DiGirolamo & Lizzi

These results are credited to Maggiano DiGirolamo & Lizzi. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

Four construction workers were killed and more than 30 injured when five floors of a parking garage under construction at the Tropicana Casino Resort in Atlantic City collapsed in October 2003, leading to what attorneys described as the largest construction-accident settlement in U.S. history at that time.

Atlantic County Superior Court, New Jersey · 2007Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
$4.4 millionSettlement

Christopher DiGirolamo secured $4.4 million for a Wayne boy who suffered a traumatic brain injury and partial paralysis when a drunk driver rear-ended his family's minivan, with $950,000 coming from the bar that served the driver under New Jersey's Dram Shop Act.

Passaic County, NJ · 2020Car AccidentsRead the full story →
$1.6 millionSettlement

Christopher DiGirolamo secured a $1.62 million settlement for Carol Olsen, a 59-year-old Midland Park woman whose right thumb was bitten off by a fostered pit bull in Mahwah, in the case Olsen v. Eleventh Hour Rescue.

Bergen County, NJ · 2023Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$900,000Settlement

Christopher DiGirolamo secured a $900,000 settlement for the family of a 26-year-old college student who was struck and killed by a car while crossing at a marked crosswalk in New Jersey.

New Jersey · 2017Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Michael Maggiano filed a $50 million suit on behalf of a Korean-American family whose 93-year-old mother's body was swapped into the wrong casket, with the error discovered as her casket was being lowered into a grave in November 2021.

Bergen County Superior Court, Hackensack, NJ · 2022Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

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

Practice areas

Education

John Marshall Law School (Atlanta)
J.D.
Rutgers University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of New Jersey

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