J. Andrew Velez

With more than 19 years of legal experience, J. Andrew Velez has successfully represented hundreds of clients in personal injury cases including, automobile/truck/bus accidents, bicycle/motorcycle accidents, fall downs, dog bites, food poisoning, wrongful death, and cases involving paralysis, brain damage, burns, disfigurement, and the Dram Shop Act.

Some of Andrew’s prior successes include:

• Arbitration Award $1,500,000: Andrew represented a client who fractured his spine. The client became a quadriplegic when an unidentified motorist changed lanes and hit the client’s vehicle causing it to veer off the road and hit a pole.
• Jury Award $217,900: Andrew represented a client who was rear-ended. Her vehicle suffered very minor property damage but she nevertheless required two surgeries to her knee and back three years post accident. The insurance company denied her claim as not related because of the minor damage to the car and that the surgeries were too remote in time.

Andrew is a graduate of Northeastern University School of Law (J.D. 1985) and SUNY College at Old Westbury (B.A., cum laude 1982). As a law student, he completed two federal judicial clerkships for the Honorable Robert W. Sweet and the Honorable Mary Johnson Lowe.

He is a member of the New Jersey Bar Association, the Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey, and ATLA-NJ. Andrew Velez has been approved by the Hudson County Civil Arbitration Committee to be on the Superior Court list for the Mandatory Automobile Arbitration Program.

Bar Admissions:

New Jersey Bar Association
Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey

Education:

Northeastern University School of Law, J.D. 1985

Practice Areas:

Personal Injury

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