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33 distinguished personal injury law attorneys in New Jersey, each reviewed by the Lawyers of Distinction Selection Committee.

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Adam B. Lederman

Personal Injury Law

375 Cedar Ln, Teaneck, NJ 07666, USA

Adam Lederman, Esq., is a Partner at the law firm of Davis, Saperstein & Salomon, P.C. He is certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney, a distinction held by less than two percent of all New Jersey licensed attorneys. From June 2024 to June 2025, Adam had the honor and privilege of serving as President of the New Jersey Association for Justice, the largest trial lawyer association in the State of New Jersey. In this role, he testified several times before the New Jersey Senate advocating for the consumers of this State. As an active trial attorney, Adam Lederman leads a firm team of trial lawyers, concentrating on representing seriously injured clients on a contingency fee basis to provide his client full compensation for the harms and losses they suffered. As a trial attorney for nearly 20 years, Adam has represented thousands of clients involved in all types of personal injury claims, including motor vehicle, motorcycle, bus, and trucking accidents. He also won substantial settlements and verdicts for various types of fall down accidents and premises liability claims. Recently, Adam has considerable experience in unfortunately representing several families in wrongful death drowning claims that resulted in seven-figure settlements. Adam Lederman graduated from New York University with an undergraduate degree in Sociology and minored in Law and Society. After college, Adam earned his Juris Doctorate law degree from Rutgers School of Law. Adam is admitted to practice law in both New Jersey and New York. Adam brings a remarkable depth and breadth of experience and knowledge to each case. Many of his cases are referred to him by other attorneys who are not experts in personal injury matters. Adam Lederman is proud to have earned a reputation for treating his clients “like family” and consistently goes “beyond the call of duty” to make sure his clients are satisfied with their legal representation. As part of his service to the New Jersey Association for Justice, Adam has lectured to hundreds of lawyers in attendance for continuing legal education credits about topics regarding representing clients in civil cases involving motor vehicle collisions, wrongful death, slip, trip and fall down cases, construction site fatalities, and truck, bus and motorcycle accidents. He has also lectured about discovery, trial techniques, and pre-suit legal investigative strategies. Most recently, he has lectured on litigation pertaining to Uber and Lyft’s ride-sharing services as well as litigation involving drowning incidents and traumatic brain injuries. He is a member of the American Association for Justice and the New Jersey State Bar Association and has been published in the New Jersey Law Journal. Adam was appointed to NJAJ’s Board of Governors, where he earned the distinction of serving as the Board’s youngest member. Adam is a past co-chair of NJAJ’s New Lawyers Division and currently serves on the Executive Committee as the Immediate Past President. Adam has also served in other leadership capacities, including Program Chair of multiple deposition and trial examination colleges. In this role, Adam has helped plan the New Jersey Association for Justice’s annual Meadowlands and Boardwalk conferences. Adam has been an active member of the New Jersey Association for Justice (NJAJ) for nearly two decades, having joined as a first-year law student. Prior to finishing his second year of law school, he participated in his first seminar and joined PAC before completing his bar exam. In 2009, Adam became co-chairman of the New Lawyers Section, which has grown considerably over the years. In 2016, Adam joined NJAJ’s Executive Committee. In 2024, Adam was installed as the organization’s President and currently serves as NJAJ’s Immediate Past President. Over the course of his career, Adam has settled thousands of cases in more than 15 of New Jersey’s counties; many of which have resulted in six figures and more. Adam, along with Davis, Saperstein & Salomon P.C. Partner Garry Salomon, won a $4.5 million settlement for a man who was seriously injured when his motorcycle collided with an ambulance. In 2013, Adam Lederman was instrumental in winning a case involving a motorcycle collision with a commercial bus where the firm’s client suffered serious leg injuries. In 2020, Adam settled a pedestrian knock-down case for $400,000; for a client who suffered a lower back injury case due to elevator malfunction for $715,000; and for an auto accident case for $950,000, and more. In 2021, he settled a pedestrian knock-down case for $490,000, a hotel fall-down that resulted in back injuries for $500,000, and a dog bite case for $700,000. In 2023, Adam settled a pedestrian knock-down case against a large North Jersey City for $3,000,000 and a fall down case in an apartment complex involving shoulder and neck injuries for $1,837,500. In 2023, Adam Lederman won an out-of-court settlement for the drowning of a child in the amount of $6,000,000. In 2024, Adam successfully settled two automobile collision cases for $1,300,000 and $1,800,000. In 2025, Adam, along with Davis, Saperstein & Salomon P.C. Partner Garry Salomon, won an out-of-court settlement in the amount of $ 3,000,000 settlement for the Estate of a man injured in a construction accident. In 2019, he settled a motor vehicle case resulting in spinal injuries for $750,000. In 2022, Adam settled a drowning accident for several million dollars as well as a fall down at a driving range for $925,000. Adam Lederman may be contacted at [email protected] or by phone at 201-907-5000.

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Barry Eichen

Barry Eichen

Distinguished Lawyer

Personal Injury Law

40 Ethel Rd, Edison, NJ 08817, USA

South Edison native Barry R. Eichen is a Shareholder with Eichen Crutchlow Zaslow, LLP, and one of New Jersey’s most seasoned and well-respected trial lawyers. Energetic and hands-on, Mr. Eichen has built a thriving practice that is esteemed by clients, peers, and the judiciary throughout the state of New Jersey. His areas of practice include personal injury, products liability, Federal Employee Liability Act cases (FELA), medical malpractice, and other complex litigation matters. Mr. Eichen has also served on the Board of Governors for ATLA-NJ and has taught seminars at the request of ATLA. He has also earned a national reputation for handling complex, high-profile mass-tort litigation, including the Phen-Fen diet drug case, and consumer fraud class action claims. Mr. Eichen has also sat as a member of the Plaintiff’s Steering Committee for Phen-Fen Litigation, Rezulin Drug Litigation, Vytorin/Zetia Drug Litigation, as well as Schering-Plough’s Intron A Drug Litigation. He was also part of the team that successfully litigated the class action claim against LYMErix a vaccine developed to prevent Lyme disease. He has served as a prosecutor for various townships and has tried over 100 complex cases. In August of 2005, Mr. Eichen obtained a $19.2 million verdict on behalf of a railroad worker who was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis as a result of various railroads’ failure to provide adequate respiratory protection. This was one of the largest FELA verdicts in the Country for pulmonary fibrosis. In April of 2007, Mr. Eichen obtained a verdict against Ford Motor Company for a defective throttle body which resulted in a brachial plexus injury to the right arm of the plaintiff. After a 4 week trial, the jury awarded plaintiff $10,626,479.89. Mr. Eichen represented the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 2010, wherein he obtained a $51 Million verdict against Johnson & Johnson for overcharging Medicaid recipients. This verdict led to a recovery of hundreds of millions of dollars for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In a recent trial against the City Of Newark, Mr. Eichen was able to obtain a verdict in the amount of three million dollars. The case involved the failure of the City of Newark to repair a pothole that was approximately three feet wide and four feet long. The jury had determined that this was a dangerous condition that the city knew or should have known existed for approximately one year, although there were complaints that the city had neglected to repair said dangerous conditions for a period of one year. While this matter was reversed due to a procedural technicality, the case was settled prior to a retrial. That same year, he served as lead counsel in a consumer fraud class action against OSRAM Sylvania, Inc. He secured a $30 million settlement on behalf of his clients. Mr. Eichen was a part of the consumer privacy lawsuit against Facebook (now Meta Platforms Inc.) which recently settled for $90 million. He served on the science committee, along with Billy Murphy of Baltimore’s Murphy Falcone.

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Christopher DiGirolamo

Christopher DiGirolamo

Distinguished Lawyer

Personal Injury Law

201 Columbia Ave, Fort Lee, NJ 07024, USA

Christopher T. DiGirolamo is the Managing Partner of Maggiano, DiGirolamo & Lizzi P.C., a nationally recognized personal injury law firm based in Fort Lee, New Jersey. He brings over three decades of trial experience, successfully representing clients in complex litigation involving motor vehicle accidents, construction site injuries, workers' compensation claims, premises liability, and defective products. His results-driven approach and relentless advocacy have led to numerous multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements, including his role as co-counsel in a landmark $101 million personal injury recovery stemming from a construction accident—one of the largest of its kind in U.S. history. Mr. DiGirolamo is admitted to practice law in the State and Federal Courts of New Jersey, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. He is deeply committed to protecting the rights of injured workers and personal injury victims.

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Evans Chris Agrapidis

Evans Chris Agrapidis

Distinguished Lawyer

Personal Injury Law

3232 John F. Kennedy Blvd, Jersey City, NJ 07306, USA

Evans Agrapidis, Personal Injury and Accident Lawyer in Jersey City New Jersey NJ is one of the founding members of the Agrapidis & Maroules law firm, which was formed in 1988 with Frank Leanza. Since the firm's inception, Mr. Agrapidis has specialized in personal injury matters for over 25 years, handling thousands of cases with a wide variety of clients, and representing them in all their personal injury needs. Mr. Agrapidis specialization includes but is not limited to the representation of his clients in: motor vehicle accidents, work related accidents, fall down cases, construction site accidents, wrongful death cases, and a wide variety of other personal injury categories resulting in mild to moderate injuries. Prior to forming the law firm of Agrapidis & Maroules, Mr. Agrapidis was in private practice since 1985, bringing almost 30 years of his legal experience to his clients. Mr. Agrapidis attends court on a regular basis to meet with and service all of his clients and their diverse legal needs. Mr. Agrapidis is fluent in Greek and serves the legal needs of our current and prospective Greek-speaking clients. Evans Agrapidis received his Bachelor of Science degree from Syracuse University in 1978 with a concentration in Accounting with Honors and the distinction of Magna Cum Laude. In 1983, he received his Juris Doctor from Seton Hall University School of Law. After completion of law school, Mr. Agrapidis served as a Clerk in the Federal District Court for the District of New Jersey with Honorable John W. Devine. In addition, Mr. Agrapidis was admitted to the New Jersey State and New Jersey Federal Bars in 1983 and the New York State and New York Federal Bars in 1985, and is currently a member of the Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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