About Michael Maggiano

Michael Maggiano is the founder and senior partner of Maggiano, DiGirolamo & Lizzi. He has specialized in motor vehicle collisions, including auto, trucking, bus, and train accidents, for over 45 years. He served as part of the trial team in the largest construction accident case in New Jersey history and was counsel in the In re Amtrak Train Disaster of 2015. His practice spans inadequate security cases, medical malpractice, and a wide range of personal injury matters, routinely achieving seven- and eight-figure recoveries. He received the New Jersey Association for Justice Gold Medal Award, the Professor Clapp Lecturer Laureate from the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, and the Mel Award from the Melvin M. Belli Society.

Chicago Kent College of Law recognized him with a Lifetime Achievement Award as one of its most distinguished alumni in its 125-year history. Maggiano is certified as a civil trial attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey and the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, an Advocate Member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, and a past president of the New Jersey Association for Justice and the Melvin M. Belli Society. He has been named in The Best Lawyers in America since 2006 and holds an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

Proven verdicts and settlements

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 →

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

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Education

IIT Chicago Kent College of Law
J.D., with Honors, 1974
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Undergraduate, 1970

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