
Workers' Compensation and Personal Injury Attorney Michael Tomasino
In the last five years alone, Mike has recovered in excess of $20,000,000 for his clients in workers’ compensation cases.
Mike is a member of the firm’s management committee and a lifelong resident of Middlesex County. One hundred percent of Mike's practice focuses upon the representation of seriously injured persons. Mike has appeared in every worker’s compensation court in the State of New Jersey; and has substantial experience obtaining favorable settlements on behalf of those deprived by insurance companies. In the last five years alone, Mike has recovered in excess of $20,000,000 for his clients in workers’ compensation cases.
Mike approaches each case as if it were to proceed to trial. In this way he can maximize the recovery for each of his clients. Mike routinely handles claims arising from specific accidents, occupational exposure, and exposure to toxic chemicals. Mike - whose father was a card-carrying union member until the day he died -- has become a go-to attorney for members of both private and public-sector unions.
In addition to workers’ compensation claims, Mike forcefully litigates a myriad of personal injury claims. In fact, Mike has substantial experience in automobile, UIM/UM, tractor trailer, ridesharing, medical malpractice, and product liability cases. To that end, Mike has tried a slew of jury trials to verdict with an overwhelming success rate for his clients.
Prior to joining Garces, Grabler & LeBrocq, Mike managed the New Jersey and New York workers’ compensation departments at a nationally renowned 2,000-attorney firm. Additionally, Mike served as an in-house trial attorney for New Jersey's largest auto insurer.
Community Activities
During law school, Mike performed nearly 700 hours of pro bono work -- largely due to his serving as a clinical student-attorney for both the Rutgers Community and Transactional Lawyering Clinic and the Rutgers Child Advocacy Clinic.
Practice Areas:
- Workers' Compensation
- Personal Injury
- Medical MalpracticeBar Admissions:
- New Jersey
- New York
- United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
Education:
Undergrad
School: Kean University
Degree: Bachelor of Arts
Major: English – Writing Option
Year: 2012
Latin Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Law School
School: Rutgers School of Law – Newark
Degree: Juris Doctor
Year: 2015
Extra:
Student-Attorney, Community and Transactional Clinic
Student-Attorney, Child Advocacy Clinic
Rutgers Law Record, Editor and Staff Writer
Center On Law In Metropolitan Equity, Chief Research Assistant
Professional Associations:
- New Jersey State Bar Association
- New York State Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Justice James H. Coleman, Jr. Inn of Court
Memberships & Affiliations
New Jersey Council on Safety & Health (NJCOSH)
New Jersey State Bar Association
New York State Bar Association
American Bar Association
Justice James H. Coleman, Jr. Inn of Court
Honors:
Designated a Top 40 Under 40 by The National Trial Lawyers
Designated a Super Lawyer in both Personal Injury Litigation and Workers’ Compensation
In-text Publications:
- Authored: "Recent Developments in the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination;" Presented by Brian J. Chabarek, Esq. at the 48th Annual Convention of the New Jersey Defense Association, June 28, 2014, Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay of Cambridge, Maryland
- Authored: "The Small Firm Shift;" New Jersey Lawyer Magazine No. 283 -- Young Lawyers' Edition, August 2013
- Authored: "Police, Equity and Municipal Finance: A Comparison of St. Louis County, MO and New Jersey Traffic Enforcement;" Rutgers Center on Law in Metropolitan Equity, November 2014
- Authored: "The New City Powers: Recent Innovations in the Exercise of Local Government Authority;" Rutgers Center on Law in Metropolitan Equity, August 2015
- Contributed to and Edited: "Municipal Court: Practical Skills Series, 2012 Edition, A Guide to New Jersey DUI Law;" Edited by Samuel Louis Sachs, Esq.
Online Publications:
- Authored: "Clouds of Concern: The Hazy State of Marijuana's Use as Curative Treatment in New Jersey Workers' Compensation," December 2016
- Authored: "Another Blow to the Intoxication Defense," December 2016
- Authored: "Can a New Jersey Employer Fire an Employee Collecting Workers' Compensation Benefits?," May 2016
- Authored: "Dever, Colmyer and the Mess Made of Respondents' Section 40 Lien Rights in Third-Party Cases," April 2016
- Authored: "Employee or Independent Contractor? Determining a Worker's Status under New Jersey's Shifting Body of Case Law," April 2016