Areas of Practice:
Representing those harmed by defective products, defective drugs, bad doctors, and bad drivers in medical malpractice cases, products liability cases, auto, bus and tractor trailer cases, and construction-site injuries; General Civil Litigation; Alternate Dispute Resolution Arbitrator; 

Admitted:

• New Jersey, 1973
• Pennsylvania, 1972
• District of New Jersey, 1973
• Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1973
• Third Circuit Court of Appeals, 1973
• US Supreme Court, 1993

Board Certification:

• Certified as a Civil Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey
• Certified as a Board Certified Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocates

Education:

• University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, CA 1972
  J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence
• Villanova University, Villanova, PA 1964
  B.S. Bachelor of Science
  Major: Mathematics

Past Positions:

• United States Navy, Lieutenant, 1964-1969
• Naval Officers Submarine School, New London, Connecticut
• Marlton Track Club, New Jersey, Commissioner, Founder and Commissioner
• St. Joseph's Preparatory School, Father's Club Member West Philadelphia Catholic High School
  Member, Board of Trustees
• Little Mill Woods Civic Association
  Past President & Former Board of Directors Member
• Former Basketball Coach, Marlton Recreation Council
• Former Adjunct Professor of Law, Camden County College
• Merion Mercy Academy Parents Club (Co-Chair of Capital Campaign)

Trial Lawyer Affiliation s and Positions Held:

• Association of Trial Lawyers of America Board of Governors
  1988-2000
• Association of Trial Lawyers of America - New Jersey
  President 1985-1986
  Chair and Founder Legal Pac 1988-1990
• Faculty, New Jersey Trial Academy
• Chair - Boardwalk Products Liability Seminar 1984
• Founder, Camden County Bar Association Personal Injury Chair (1984-1989) Member, (1989 -present)
  Trustee (1988-1991)
• Burlington County Bar Association
  Chair, Civil Practice Bench-Bar Committee
  CLE Cpmmittee (1998-1999)
• Camden Inns of Court
  Master
• Civil Justice Foundation
  President, 1998
  Trustee
• National College of Trial Advocacy, Hastings College of Law, CA, Faculty
• National Board of Trial Advocacy
  State Coordinator
• American Board of Trial Advocates
  Diplomate
• New Jersey Trial Lawyers Association
  Member
• St. Joseph's Preparatory School, Father's Club Member West Philadelphia Catholic High School
  Member, Board of Trustees
• Little Mill Woods Civic Association
  Past President & Former Board of Directors Member
• University of San Diego School of Law
  Board of Visitors

Honors:

• Elected as a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers (one of 500 selected in the world) February, 2003
• 2001 Trial Bar Award presented by the Trial Attorneys of New Jersey, October, 1991
• Martindale-Hubbell A-V Rating (Highest Rating for Law Firm Competence)
• Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, 1992
• Sons of Italy, Outstanding American Citizen Award, Cherry Hill Lodge, Cherry Hill, NJ, 1999
• Trial Bar Award, for distinguished service and achievement, Trial Attorneys of NJ, 2001
• West Catholic High School, Hall of Fame, 2001.

Military Service and Honors

• 5 Years - Lieutenant, U.S. Navy (1964-1969)
• Naval Officers Submarine School, New London, Conn.
• Service on submarines, destroyers, and in Vietnam;
• Awarded Combat Action Ribbon; 2 Navy Unit Commendation; Vietnam Campaign Medal; Vietnam Service Medal with three bronze stars.

Community Activities:

• Amigos de Jesus, helped build an orphanage in
  Honduras (2000, 2001)
• March of Dimes Foundation, Sponsor
   (1995 - 2002)
• New Jersey State Aquarium, Sponsor (1995 - 1999)
• Founder and Sponsor of the Academic Allstars, Courier-Post, Cherry Hill, NJ (1997 - 2001)
• Bancroft Foundation For Brain Injuries (Sponsor) Philadelphia, PA (1998 - 2002)

Other Activities:

• Past President and C.E.O. of Wichita Falls, Texas, Cellular One Telephone Company
• Selected to represent the Governor of New Jersey as co-counsel in the lawsuit against the tobacco industry.
• Part of Congressional delegation to Russia and Moldova, November, 1999
• Invited speaker to the Russian Duma [Parliament] - Topic - Implementing a Mortgage System in the Newly Democratic Russia, September, 1998.
• Little Mill Woods Civic Association (Past President and Former Member of Board of Directors)
• Former Adjunct Professor of Law, Camden County College
• St. Joseph's Preparatory School, Father's Club
• Merion Mercy Academy Parents Club (Co-Chair of Capital Campaign)
• St. Joan of Arc, Marlton, NJ 7th Grade CCD Instructor
• West Catholic High School Board of Trustees
• University of San Diego School of Law Board of Visitors
• Who's Who in American Business
• Founder and Former Commissioner, Marlton Track Club
  for the Marlton Recreation Council
• Former Basketball Coach, Marlton Recreation Council
• Sons of Italy, Man of the Year, Cherry Hill, NJ, 1999
• Member, Federal Judicial Selection Advisory Committee
  (1997 - present)

Classes/Seminars Taught:

• Mike Ferrara is the moderator for an ICLE seminar Medicine for
  Lawyers: Point Counter Point on Traumatic Brain Injury Cases. December 13, 2003 in Mt. Laurel, NJ
• Association of Trial Lawyers of America - New Jersey Affiliate
• Speaker, A Review of New Jersey's No Fault, Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Laws, New Jersey Annual Convention, Grossingers, New York, 1983
• Speaker, Effective Closing Arguments, New Jersey Plaintiff's Trial Academy, November 1984
• Speaker, Closing Arguments and Trial Conduct, New Jersey's Plaintiff's Trial Academy, November, 1985
• Speaker, Updated Ethical Dilemmas, New Jersey Boardwalk Seminar, April 1989
• Speaker, New Case Law and Landmark Cases, New Jersey Annual convention, June 1989
• Speaker, Slip, Trip & Fall and the Construction Accident Cases, Themes/Diffusing the Defense in The Opening, NJ Masters in Advocacy Seminar, Cherry Hill, March 1991
• Speaker, Directing the Plaintiff, The Masters in Trial Advocacy, Edison, 1992
• Speaker, Personal Injury Program Proving the Injury, Boardwalk Seminar, Bally's Park Place, April 1996
• Speaker, Art of Cross Examination, Trial Academy, December, 1996
• Guest Speaker, The Year in Torts, Seaview Resort, June 1996
• Guest Speaker, Maximizing Damages in Soft Tissue Cases, Pines Manor, Edison, October 1994
• Guest Speaker, The Art of Cross Examination, Trial Academy, December 1994
• Guest Speaker, Jury Selection and Courtroom Presentation, February 1995
• Guest Speaker, Personal Injury Program - Proving the Injury, Boardwalk Seminar, April 1996
• Guest Speaker, The Art of Cross Examination, Trial Academy, December 1996
• Panelist, How to Nail Down Your Liability Case, Top Ten Torts, Boardwalk Seminar, March 1995
• Panelist, Top Ten Torts, Boardwalk Seminar, April 1993, Association of Trial Lawyers of America
• Speaker, Punitive Damages in Bad Faith Cases, NJ Annual Convention Host Farm, Lancaster, PA, June 1981
• Speaker, Pre-Trial Discovery, Tucson, AZ, October 1989
• Speaker, Preparing the Slip & Fall Case, Annual Convention, Toronto, July 1991
• Speaker, Using Psychologists and Consultants, National College of Advocacy, San Francisco, August 1991
• Speaker, Creative and Demonstrative Evidence in Depositions, Workhorse Seminar, Atlanta, September 1996
• Guest Speaker, Personal Empowerment, National Convention, Boston, July 1996
• Speaker, The New Jersey No Fault Law, NJ Legal Secretaries Association, April 1986
• Speaker, Winning the Battle But Losing the War: the Cap on Damages, National Dram Shop Seminar, Atlantic City, NJ, June 1986
• Speaker, A Legislative Review, Garden State Bar Association, Newark, NJ, June 1986
• Speaker, Recent Changes in the New Jersey No Fault Law, Independent Agents Luncheon Forum, January 1989
• Speaker, The New Auto Insurance Law, The Gloucester County Medical Society, June 1986
• Speaker, Opening Statements - Wrongful Death Trial, Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Woodbridge, NJ June 1989
• Speaker, New Auto Insurance Law, Independent Insurance Agents, Burlington County, September 1989
• Speaker, How To Try a Medical Malpractice Case, Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Cherry Hill, NJ, February 1990
• Speaker, Hot Tips in Tort Law I, Suing Patient's Physician for Ignoring that Patient's Trial, Institute for Continuing Legal Education, June 1990
• Speaker, Evaluating Personal Injury Cases - Reviewing Medical Records, Camden County Bar Association, October 1990
• Speaker, Insurance Litigation, Institute for Continuing Legal Education, November, 1990
• Speaker, Maximizing Damages and Trial Techniques, Maryland Trial Lawyers Association, December 1990
• Speaker, Hot Tips in Tort Law II, Diffusing Time Bomb Jurors, Institute for Continuing Legal Education, November 1991
• Speaker, Expert Witness Testimony, The Camden County Bar Foundations' Continuing Legal Education Committee, Cherry Hill, NJ, May 1992
• Speaker, Oswin v. Shaw & Brown v. Fuentes, From the Plaintiff's Perspective, Presented to the Personal Injury Law Committee by the Camden County Bar Association, Camden NJ, September 1992
• Speaker, South Jersey Paralegal Association, January 1996
• Speaker, Recent Caselaw, Institute Continuing Legal Education, Cherry Hill, NJ, February 1996
• Speaker, Demonstration Of the Art Of Examination Of An Expert In A Traumatic Brain Injury Case Direct, New Jersey Head Injury Association, Inc., Woodbridge, NJ, March 1996
• Speaker, Lawyering in the 90's, Villanova University Law School, March 1996
• Speaker, Personal Empowerment, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, National Convention, Boston, July 1996
• Guest Speaker, Stress/Heart Attack and the Trial Lawyer, Camden County Bar Association, May 1995
• Guest Speaker, Demonstration of the Examination of an Expert in a TBI Case Direct, New Jersey Head Injury Association, March 1996
• Panelist, Auto Negligence, Camden County Bar Association, Legal Line Cable Television, March & June 1995
• Panelist, Prevention of Head Injury, Association of Trial Lawyers of America Educational Foundation Cable Television, September, 1993
• Panelist, Hot Tips in Tort Law, Ex-Parte Interviews, New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education, November 1993
• Panelist, Direct and Cross Examination of a Neurologist, Camden County Bar Association, Young Lawyers, December 1993
• Seminar Speaker at the Camden County Bar Association. " Legal Negotiation & Settlement: Winning Strategies". November 2002
• Panelist, Point-Counter Point on Traumatic Brian Brain Injury Cases, presented by the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, October, 2003
• Panelist, How to Try a Personal Injury case: from Conferencing to Closing, presented by Camden County Bar Association, January 2003.

Articles:

• "Employment Torts: an overview of damages"
• "The Use of Jury Questionnaires"
• "The Role of Litigation: Paralegal in Discovery and Depositions "
• ""Botched Operation? Wrong Medication? When to Sue the Doctor"

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