Michael Tomasino

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

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Education:

Undergrad

School:  Kean University

Degree: Bachelor of Arts

Major: English – Writing Option

Year: 2012

Latin Honors: Summa Cum Laude

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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

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Professional Associations:

• New Jersey State Bar Association
• New York State Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• Justice James H. Coleman, Jr. Inn of Court

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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

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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