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I was born and raised in Lafayette. I am blessed with a beautiful and supportive wife, Sarah, and two inspiring and wonderful young children. We enjoy boating, water skiing, hunting, fishing and spending time with family. We are active members of Asbury United Methodist Church, where Sarah and I are fortunate to teach Sunday school and mentor young children.. I graduated from Acadiana High School in 1982, from University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1986, and from Louisiana State University Law School in 1990. After law school, I moved to Austin, Texas, where I worked for the Texas Railroad Commission, enforcing violations of oil, gas, and transportation regulations. The best part of that job was I met Sarah there in 1992.. In 1993, I left the Railroad Commission to do what I felt I was meant to do as a lawyer – represent real people instead of corporate or governmental interests. I spent a large part of my time representing persons injured or killed as a result of medical malpractice, and learned that ability from a remarkably intelligent and capable physician/lawyer.. I returned to Lafayette in 2000, and opened my own law practice dedicated to representing persons injured in cases of medical malpractice, 18-wheeler wrecks, car wrecks, industrial and boat accidents, and legal and other professional malpractice, as well as claims involving breach of contract, consumer fraud, and wrongful denial of insurance benefits.. I am active with Lafayette Volunteer Lawyers, a project coordinated by the Lafayette Parish Bar Association. I am especially proud of this work, as I assist women who are unable to hire a lawyer obtain protective orders against their abusers.. I attended and graduated Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College as one of only 110 graduates from around the nation that year, and remain active in post graduate seminars and learning at TLC.. I am a member of the Louisiana Association for Justice, Texas Trial Lawyers Association, American Association for Justice, Louisiana State Bar, Texas State Bar, Lafayette Parish Bar Association, and am admitted to practice in multiple federal courts throughout Louisiana and Texas.

I am Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney.  I zealously advocate for my clients in a host of practiceareas, including: personal injury (car accidents, slip-and-falls,medical/dental malpractice), employment (sexual harassment, age discrimination,wrongful termination), commercial/business matters (litigation andtransactional) and Federal and State False Claims Act/Whistleblower actions. Additionally, I aggressively represent clients in local municipal courts(for DWI, traffic violations, simple assault, drug possession and neighbordisputes), and handle serious criminal matters and domestic violence cases.. Should you needlegal counsel in any of those areas, I invite you to contact me today for a consultation at my offices.  If you need legal advice, you should seek theassistance of legal counsel (a lawyer/attorney) immediately; generallyspeaking, the law punishes those who sit on their rights.  Before makingyour choice of attorney, you should give this matter careful thought.  Theselection of an attorney is an important decision.. I have extensivecivil litigation experience at the Federal and State level, having devoted morethan a substantial portion of my professional time toward the preparation andtrial and all matters litigated.  I have appeared for trial in alltwenty-one (21) of New Jersey’s County Superior Courts.. I was born and raised in West Orange (Essex County).  A 1989 graduate of The PingrySchool in Martinsville, New Jersey, I was graduated from GeorgetownUniversity in 1993, with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and a Minor inPsychology.  Most notably, as a Hoya, I was Georgetown’s official mascot,“Jack the Bulldog” from 1990 to 1993.. I obtained my JurisDoctor degree from the Seton Hall University School of Law in 1997, where I served as a Member and Book Review Editor of the Seton Hall Law Review. Additionally, I was the research assistant to Professor E. Judson Jennings,helping him to pen the Jennings and Weissenberger New Jersey Evidence CourtroomManual; this manual is still widely used by litigators across the State.. Enjoying admission topractice in New Jersey, I may also appear before the United States DistrictCourt for the District of New Jersey.  I am a member of the SussexCounty, New Jersey State, and American Bar Associations.. I began my legalcareer “in the trenches” from the start.  Sworn in by the Honorable CarolFerentz, J.S.C. (retired) first thing in the early morning on the day I waslicensed, I made my second appearance “on the record” at a deposition lateron in the afternoon.. As a young attorney, I primarily served as defense counsel to large insurance company’s insureds,handling primarily auto accidents and premises liability matters.  At thattime, my work also brought me to the municipal level, as I representedAbercrombie & Fitch privately prosecuting shoplifters in their Menlo ParkMall location.. I tried my firstjury trial before the anniversary of my first year in the practice.. Later, I wouldventure into the commercial litigation realm, representing large companies in avariety of litigated and transactional matters.  Returning again to theinsurance industry, I joined the Nationwide Insurance Trial Division andrepresented Nationwide, Scottsdale, Allied, and National Casualty insureds invarying general liability and transportation defense cases.  While withNationwide Trial Division, I handled wrongful death actions, slip-and-falls,construction defect cases, products liability matters, and standard autoaccident defense.  I successfully brought a number of those matters toconclusion at trials before juries of up to eight (8) panelists.. I have also handledmany aspects of complex commercial litigation matters in the health care fieldat the State and Federal level.  Additionally, I participated at MedicalBoard hearings, guardianship proceedings, and in criminal court defendingclaims brought on behalf of, or against, medical doctors in the course of theirpractice.. More recently, I have focused my practice on plaintiff’s personal injury lawsuits with particularemphasis on medical and dental malpractice actions, commercial/business matters(litigation and transactional), employment suits, and Federal and State FalseClaims Act/Whistleblower cases.  I also represent clients in localmunicipal courts for DWI, traffic violations, simple assault, drug possessionand neighbor disputes.  I handle more serious criminal matters anddomestic violence cases, as well.  In these areas, I now fight forindividual clients who need representation to ensure that their rights areprotected.. Asaforementioned, I am currently Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jerseyas a Civil Trial Attorney.  There are only approximately 1500 or soCertified Civil Trial Attorneys in New Jersey out of nearly 83,000practitioners.  For more information about what it is to hold thisdesignation, please visit: .. My firm, The Marchese Law Firm, LLC, isconveniently located in Newton, New Jersey, just off the square in the centerof town, at 93 Spring Street.  My law offices are on the ThirdFloor, in Suite 300.

Roy Konray is certified by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney. He has extensive jury trial experience in the areas of medical malpractice, legal malpractice, catastrophic personal injury cases, and employment law. He has served as chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Medical Malpractice committee. He is a shareholder in the firm and chairs its Complex Litigation Department.. Martindale-Hubbell is America’s oldest lawyer rating organization. Based on peer reports from judges and lawyers, it awards Mr. Konray the highest ratings in both legal ability and ethical conduct (pre-eminent). places Mr. Konray on its “Top 100 Trial lawyers” list. Based on surveys of New Jersey lawyers published in New Jersey Monthly magazine, Mr. Konray has been selected as a “Super Lawyer” in every year the survey has been taken (2005 to 2015). He serves as a Master in the Richard J. Hughes American Inn of Court. reports Mr. Konray has client ratings of 5 out of 5, as well as peer ratings of 5 out 5.. Mr. Konray is the co-author of a book chapter on detecting fraud in medical records and has authored several articles concerning civil litigation. He is a frequent lecturer on various issues related to trial work. Some legal matters he has handled have received national and worldwide media coverage. Mr. Konray has appeared on the Today show, CNN’s Joy Behar Show, ABC Nightly News and other television shows as a result of legal cases he has handled.

My practice focus is on helping seriously injured people and their families through some of the most difficult times in their lives and on providing them with the best financial compensation for their losses that can be achieved. I treat every case like it is the most important case that I have been entrusted with - because it is. Every case that we handle is prepared from the start to make the best presentation at trial with an eye to accomplising the very best results for our clients. I have over twenty years of experience as a medical malpractice, product liability and serious personal injury trial lawyer. My long track record of top results both from  juries at trial and through settlement negotiations puts us in a strong position in every case that we prosecute. My goal is to achieve the best result possible for my clients - My results prove that I deliver on this promise.

Gonzalo Fernandez has been a trial attorney in the court room fighting for his clients for over 25 years.   After graduating from Washington University Law school in St. Louis with a law degree and an MBA he accepted a position with Baker & McKenzie, the world's largest law firm, in their home office in Chicago.  He left Baker to work for the Circuit Attorney's office in the City of St. Louis where he was an Assistant Prosecutor and part of the Sex Crimes/Child Abuse Unit as well as a member of the Special Victims Unit.   Gonzalo then worked as in-house counsel for Anheuser Busch where he worked closely with the marketing department and field sales and oversaw antitrust and wholesaler litigation.   Since 1996 Gonzalo has been in private practice focusing his practice on Plaintiff's personal injury cases.  He has won numerous multi million dollar verdicts in areas such as medical negligence, trucking accidents, defective products, bad faith insurance cases and police officer excessive force cases.   He is a member of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, American Association for Justice, the Hispanic Nation and St. Louis bar associations, and has received the highest possible AV rating from Martindale Hubbel for 15 straight years.  He is also a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Club, Super Lawyers and has been selected to Best Lawyers in Missouri for personal injury work on multiple occassions.

For more than 20 years I’ve focused my practice on plaintiff’s personal injury. A native to St. Louis, I’m passionate about my family and community. I am active in multiple charitable organizations, including BackStoppers and my church. I also volunteer my time for legal associations that aim to protect the legal rights of individuals, as well as maintain ethics and integrity in the judicial system.

Individuals and families come to my firm for help after a loss has drastically altered their lives. My job is to secure justice for those individuals and families so that they have the means to live with the dignity every human being deserves. Most of the cases my firm handles end in a settlement of some kind. However, a large number of our cases are tried before a jury. We are trial lawyers, and the five lawyers at my firm have tried over 350 jury trials. If securing justice for the folks we represent means taking the case to trial, we will not hesitate.. My dad, Don Schlapprizzi, started this firm some thirty years ago. He has dedicated his life to helping individuals and families who have been harmed by another's wrongdoing. His exceptional abilities as a trial lawyer and consistent courtroom success have earned him the reputation as one of the preeminent trial lawyers in the United States.. Our firm is responsible for the longest civil jury trial in the history of the State of Missouri. Our five lawyers have the combined experience of 350 jury trials. All appeals are handled in-house, and we have taken more than 60 cases to Missouri Courts of Appeals and the Missouri Supreme Court. We have changed the law five times for the benefit of the citizens of Missouri.

I have been practicing law for more than 30 years and am an instrumented rated pilot. My practice is focused on representing those who have been impacted by either injury or death. I’m honored to have been awarded the Lon O. Hocker Trial Lawyer Award by the Missouri Bar and named a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Born and raised in St. Louis, I enjoy spending time here with my wife and children.

Since 1984 Mr. Willman has devoted himself to defending health care providers in medical liability and health care law litigation.  In that time he has tried approximately 100 jury trials in Missouri and Illinois and in state and federal court involving claims against physicians, medical schools, hospitals, nurses, psychologists and other health care providers.  He has also represented individuals and firms in environmental litigation.

Rachel Roman is a partner with Zevan Davidson Roman and an accomplished trial lawyer with success litigating cases involving product liability, medical malpractice, wrongful death, personal injury, premises liability and toxic torts.

I have practiced law for over 28 years with a concentration in complex civil litigation including wrongful death, medical malpractice, and product liability. My experience includes trying numerous cases in state and federal courts in Missouri and Illinois. I also advise a wide spectrum of health care clients in government investigations relating to Medicare/Medicaid fraud and abuse, false claims and anti-kickback laws, and professional licensure disciplinary actions. I regularly counsel clients who have been served subpoenas and civil investigative demands from the Department of Justice, Office of Inspector General, state and federal drug agencies, state licensure boards and private parties involved in civil litigation. I also have a successful track record in litigating insurance disputes involving claims for coverage, breach of contract, bad faith and contribution.

I am a plaintiff's attorney and devote the majority of my trial practice to representing injured parties in medical malpractice and significant personal injury cases. I have been counsel in jury cases in state and federal court, in both Missouri and Illinois.