Aggressive Representation & Personal Service – “A Courtroom Bulldog Who Won’t be Leashed”

Settlement of $3,450,000.00:

In a motor vehicle case involving a Guttenberg woman who was a driver involved in a head-on collision with a motor vehicle negligently operated by a car dealership's employee resulting in catastrophic injuries. Read More

Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances.

Settlement of $8,125,000:

In a motor vehicle case involving a New York man who was a passenger involved in a head-on collision in Cochecton, New York, causing him to sustain fractures and head injuries. Read More

Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances.

Settlement of $5,120,000:

After successfully obtaining a jury verdict of $7,400,000 in a case involving a Hackensack cardiologist who sustained catastrophic injuries after being forcefully knocked down as a pedestrian by a motor vehicle. Read More

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Settlement of $3,000,000:

In a case involving an infant who sustained blindness after she bent down to pick up a toy and her left eye contacted a sharp protruding bar from a display rack. Read More

Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances.

Jury Verdict of $1,600,000:

In a case involving a man who sustained catastrophic injuries when a vehicle in front of him negligently ran over a tire, propelling it and knocking him off his motorcycle. Read More

Settlement of $1,500,000:

In a case involving a Teaneck woman who was injured when, as a pedestrian, she was struck by a vehicle causing her to become pinned between two vehicles. Read More

Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances.

Settlement of $1,800,000 :

in a case involving a Staten Island teenager who sustained injuries after having been shot in his eye with a BB-Gun pellet. Read More

Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances.

Settlement of $1,200,000:

In a case involving an East Rutherford woman who was injured when she was struck as a pedestrian lawfully crossing a crosswalk in Hackensack, New Jersey. Read More

Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances.

Settlement of $965,000:

In a case involving a Rochelle Park man who sustained injuries while he was working as a forklift operator when the forklift flipped over and pinned him underneath the roll cage. Read More

Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances.

Jury Verdict of $750,000:

In compensatory damages plus $10,000 in medical expenses in a case involving a Middlesex County woman who was sexually assaulted by two on-duty uniformed police officers employed by New Jersey Transit Police Read More

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Settlement of $1,300,000:

for four employees of the Township of Howell claiming discrimination and a hostile work environment against the township, the township municipal court, and Court Administrator. Read More

Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances.

Settlement of $4,000,000:

In cash and benefits for her client in a lawsuit filed against Bergen County, New Jersey for allowing their employee to force Arnold’s client to perform fellatio on him. Read More

Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances.

Confidential 7 figure settlement:

In a suit brought on a behalf of the brother of world renowned playwright Leonard Melfi whose dead body was desiccated and buried in a mass grave. Read More

Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances.

TRYST TEEN CASHES IN

New York Post – 6/24/08

Supermodel Christie Brinkley’s cheating hubby, Peter Cook, paid $300,000 to his former teenage lover to keep her from singing about their torrid affair, The Post has learned.

Cook’s payment to then-20-year-old Diana Bianchi last March came in exchange for a promise not to sue him for sexual harassment.

The Post first reported last year that a deal had been made – but terms of the confidential settlement had been kept secret until yesterday.

Two sources familiar with the deal said Cook, 49, paid Bianchi $300,000, and in return she agreed to never talk about their relationship, which began when she was just 18 years old and working in his Hamptons architectural firm.

Bianchi had told The Post in 2006 – right after Brinkley booted the horndog hubby from their house – that Cook “first physically made advances at me . . . probably a month after I started working there.”

Once Bianchi raised the possibility of a lawsuit, Cook asked his lawyers how much it would cost him to defend it in court, a source said.

Cook desperately wanted to avoid that sort of public spectacle to spare his kids with Brinkley – Jack and Sailor – the pain of learning tawdry details of the affair, said the source.

In hopes of preempting the suit, Cook suggested that his lawyers offer Bianchi a payment close in amount to what a trial defense would cost.

After months of negotiations, Bianchi agreed to accept the $300,000, sources said.

Ironically, Cook’s settlement with Bianchi might turn out to be a huge waste of money, and his kids could eventually hear her tale anyway.

Last week, a Suffolk County judge ordered, over Cook’s objections, that his upcoming divorce trial with Brinkley be open to the public.

Brinkley’s lawyers have subpoenaed Bianchi to testify at the trial – which means she might be forced to publicly spill the beans about her trysts with Cook.

Confidentiality agreements typically are not binding on witnesses subpoenaed to testify at a trial.

Bianchi yesterday told The Post through her lawyer, Rosemarie Arnold, that, “I am not interested in getting involved in a dispute with Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook.

But, she added, “If compelled to testify, I will do so truthfully.”

“I do not enjoy being in the spotlight,” Bianchi said. “I’m looking forward to moving on with my life and regaining my anonymity.

Arnold said Bianchi “feels that she should not be blamed for the breakup of a marriage.”

The lawyer would not discuss any details of Bianchi’s settlement with Cook, saying she was allowed only to confirm that “the matter has been resolved.”

A source said one potential stumbling block to the deal was that Cook wanted Bianchi’s step-dad, ex-Southampton Village cop Brian Platt, to agree to stay at least 100 feet away from him.

Platt – who had confronted Brinkley about the affair – refused that stipulation because he feared that abiding by it would be difficult in the close-quarters Hamptons.