About Joseph Capetola

Joseph J. Capetola is one of the leading trial attorneys at The Barnes Firm and is based at the firm's Long Island (Garden City) office, where he handles serious personal injury cases throughout Nassau, Suffolk, and the New York City metropolitan area. Admitted to the New York bar in 1985, he has nearly four decades of experience and has obtained many multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements working alongside Steve and Rich Barnes, first at Cellino & Barnes and now at The Barnes Firm. His practice covers auto, motorcycle, truck, bicycle, and drunk-driving accidents, slip-and-fall cases, broken bones and fractures, spinal cord injuries, swimming accidents, and wrongful death. Mr. Capetola is a graduate of Colgate University (B.A., 1981) and St. John's University School of Law (J.D., 1984).

Proven verdicts and settlements at The Barnes Firm Injury Attorneys

These results are credited to The Barnes Firm Injury Attorneys. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$19.45 millionVerdictTop 10 of 2000 · #6

Ross Cellino and Stephen Barnes won a $47.4 million Erie County jury verdict for a 22-year-old law student who suffered a catastrophic brain injury when two drivers played high-speed road tag on the New York State Thruway.

Erie County Supreme Court (Justice Christopher J. Burns); affirmed as modified, NY App. Div. 4th Dep't, Dec. 21, 2001 · 2000Car AccidentsRead the full story →

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

Practice areas

Education

St. John's University School of Law
J.D., 1984
Colgate University
Undergraduate, 1981

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of New York, admitted 1985
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
Nassau County Bar Association
New York State Bar Association
National Association of Trial Attorneys

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