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Primary Focus & ExperiencePaul is a seasoned lawyer with extensive civil litigation experience. He has held in-house counsel, executive human resources, and other non-legal positions in private business. Paul primarily focuses on wage & hour and prevailing wage violations, as well as consumer fraud class actions.. These positions provided Paul with a broad range of practical experience in a diverse spectrum of legal areas such as employment law, compliance, drafting and negotiating contracts and employee compensation plans, and risk management. Since joining Keefe Law Firm Paul has focused on developing and executing strategies for new business development and manages all e-discovery projects. Paul has litigated and provided vendor management, data analysis and other support in several large and successful consumer fraud class action lawsuits and settlements.Significant Representations• Currently litigating on behalf of underpaid workers for labor performed on restoration projects at the Jersey Shore after Superstorm Sandy.• Survived motions to dismiss in a nationwide class action on behalf of employees denied commissions owed by their employer.Previous Employment• After obtaining his B.S. in Engineering from Cornell University in 1987, Paul summer-interned on Wall Street at BHF Securities.• He then moved into the telecommunications industry, at AT&T, first as a product manager and then as a sales systems consultant.• Practiced law in the areas of civil defense and commercial, automotive financing, litigation at Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker.• Corporate Counsel for The Answer Group, an emerging technical support company in South Florida. While there, he also served as Director of Human Resources to over 5,000 employees, and as Director of Security.• Was U.S. Vice President of Human Capital Resources Management for Teleperformance, the largest customer relationship management company in the world.

Some of Chad's educational highlights include:. Chad is licensed to practice law in the states of New Jersey and Florida.. During his third year of law school, He was a certified legal intern for the Broward County State Attorney’s Office. After law school, Mr. Weiss was an associate at the Law Offices of Emery Z. Toth, Esq. Following his employment with the Law Offices of Emery Z. Toth, Esq., Mr. Weiss was employed as an associate at Gutterman, Markowitz & Klinger.. While at Gutterman, Markowitz & Klinger, Mr. Weiss defended various insurance companies and NJPLIGA in PIP arbitrations for the payment of medical benefits.  He was also tasked with representing insurance companies and NJPLIGA in lawsuits for PIP benefits which included preparing answers, preparing discovery responses, and filing motions for summary judgment on behalf of the insurance carriers.. At Ghabour Law, Mr. Weiss handles personal injury and workers' compensation matters and civil cases.. Outside of the office, Chad serves his family as a loving husband and father.

James Durgana is an experienced workers’ compensation litigator who defends clients before the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board in a broad array of matters. James’s extensive workers’ compensation background includes working in-house at one of the country’ largest insurance companies, where he defended work-related claims, created and executed its workers’ compensation litigation strategy, and successfully resolved matters. He has also litigated personal injury matters in the state and federal courts of New York and New Jersey and before juries and arbitrators on issues of liability and damages.. James earned his J.D. at Villanova University School of Law, where he was the recipient of its Dorothy Day Award for pro bono legal service. Among several internships and clerkships, he also served as a judicial extern with the Hon. Petrese B. Tucker in Philadelphia and was a student representative at the Clinic for Asylum, Refugee and Emigrant Services (CARES). There, he submitted brief and supporting affidavits to successfully support asylum-seeker testimony.

Haley Jung is a workers’ compensation litigator who frequently appears before the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board in defense of her clients, which include insurance companies and self-insured employers. She analyzes and prepares case litigation plans, evaluates potential settlements, and makes measured recommendations in order to efficiently resolve client matters. Haley’s experience also includes defending municipalities in a wide range of cases and matters, including racial and sexual discrimination, personal injury, landlord-tenant disputes, and contract litigation.. During law school at Seton Hall University School of Law, where she earned her J.D. in 2011, Haley held a legal internship with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of the General Counsel, Region II. In addition to conducing legal research and drafting legal memoranda, she worked, maintained — and resolved — cases filed involving Medicare Secondary Payer Act Claims. She also acted as a liaison between the office’s attorneys/Medicare beneficiaries and Center for Medicare Service in lien negotiations.. She was also a member of Seton Hall’s Dispute Resolution Society’s Competition Team. In fall 2010, Haley was the St. John’s Law School & FINRA Dispute Resolution Triathlon’s National Champion. In spring 2009, she was a Regional Semi-Finalist of the Georgetown Law School ABA Arbitration Competition.

Alison Quine is an experienced workers’ compensation litigator who defends self-insured employers, third party administrators, and insurance carriers against workers’ compensation claims. Alison’s broad background in workers’ compensation litigation includes working as a staff attorney for New York’s Special Funds Conservation Committee and as a staff attorney for a large utility company, where she developed and implemented the legal strategy for administering and litigating its self-insured workers’ compensation claims. She also served on the company Pro Bono Committee, and advised multiple nonprofits on employment law and contract issues.. Alison is a graduate of New York Law School, where she was deeply involved in moot court competitions and associations. She was also a member of the Order of the Barristers, a national honorary organization that encourages oral advocacy and the development of brief-writing skills.