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Selected to New Jersey Super Lawyers 2012 2011 2010 New Jersey Rising Stars 2009

Mr. Pagliuca received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University in 1987. He attended Rider University where he received a Masters degree in Business Administration in 1991. He attended Widener University and received the degree of Juris Doctorate in 1994. He is licensed to practice law in New Jersey and is admitted to practice at the Federal and State levels in New Jersey. He is the Managing Partner at the Law Office of Gill & Chamas.

Mr. Pagliuca is a member of the American Association for Justice, National and New Jersey divisions, the New Jersey State Bar Association and Middlesex County Bar Association.

Mr. Pagliuca is a life long resident of New Jersey who concentrates his practice on all phases of personal injury, including construction site, workplace accidents and products liability cases with foreign defendants.

Mr. Pagliuca has recently been named as a New Jersey Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2009. Mr. Pagliuca was also chosen in the 2010 Edition of New Jersey Super Lawyers.

Areas of Practice

Personal injury

Construction Site

Workplace Accidents

Products Liability

Bar Admissions

New Jersey

U.S. District Court District of New Jersey

U.S. Bankruptcy Court New Jersey

Education

Widener University School of Law, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

J.D. - 1994

Rider University

Masters Degree - 1991
Major: Business Administration

Rutgers University

B.A. - 1987

Honors and Awards

New Jersey Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2009

New Jersey Super Lawyers List, 2010

Professional Associations and Memberships

American Association for Justice, Member

New Jersey State Bar Association, Member

Middlesex County Bar Association, Member

A sample of James Pagliuca's verdicts and settlements as of May 2012:

$5,500,000 - An explosion occurred at an acetylene manufacturing plant that killed one worker and injured six others.

$2,650,000 - Plaintiff's were burned at a bar in Seaside Heights when a propane tank began leaking and was ignited by the heater.

$1,900,000 - A plaintiff was injured when her automobile drove underneath the rear of a tractor trailer.

$1,150,000 - A man was pinned between a trailer and the wall in a workplace accident

$1,000,000 - A construction worker was knocked down by a passing pick-up truck as he was doing paving work on the shoulder of a highway.

$940,000 - A machine operator suffered a serious leg injury when he was trapped between two moving parts of machinery.

$925,000 - A plaintiff was served while visibly intoxicated and was then hit by a car.

$850,000 - Two plaintiffs working on a construction site fell from scaffolding that they had assembled.

$750,000 - A pedestrian was struck by a bus and suffered a degloving injury to his right hand and forearm.

$737,500 - A plaintiff was injured when he was hit by a truck at a construction site.

$700,000 - A man suffered leg injuries in a 240-foot scuba dive.

$600,000 - A woman suffered a neck injury when plaster fell from a bathroom ceiling as she was taking a shower.

$500,000 - A bicyclist was hit by a vehicle and suffered a head injury.

$400,000 - A 45 year-old man was injured when steps collapsed causing him to undergo knee surgery

$400,000 - An elderly man sustained a head injury when he was hit by an automatic door

$400,000 - A man suffered injuries when an overfilled compressed gas cylinder became airborne and struck him.

$400,000 - A driver of a car was hit by a tire which dislodged from a tractor trailer.

$300,000 - A woman fell ten feet from a porch that did not have a railing or provide warning of danger.

$297,000 - An auto accident resulting in multiple fractures with a $300,000 policy.

$225,000 - A man fell twelve feet through plywood flooring on the balcony during the construction of a home.

$215,000 - The plaintiff slipped and fell on snow and ice in a hospital parking lot.

$212,500 - The plaintiff tripped and fell in an apartment complex and suffered a fractured pelvis.

$207,000 - A man fell due to an empty three-inch display platform in a plant nursery.

$200,000 - A retired man slipped and fell in a parking lot requiring hip surgery

$200,000 - Passenger sustained a fractured leg when driver went through a stop sign

$200,000 - A young woman underwent arthroscopic knee surgery after she was in a car crash

$200,000 - A 40 year-old man sustained a cervical spine injury in a car crash

$190,000 - An auto accident resulting in shoulder and wrist injuries.

$185,000 - A driver of a small truck was hit in the rear by another truck.

$140,000 - A retired man slipped and fell in his apartment complex fracturing his knee cap

$115,000 - A woman fractured her foot after tripping and falling in a parking lot.

$100,000 - An elderly man was negligently exposed to bacteria