Fair Lawn, PA

Steven K. Johnson

Steve’s practice focuses exclusively on the representation of those significantly injured in all types of accidents. A skilled trial lawyer, Mr. Johnson has successfully handled cases involving motor vehicles, motorcycles, dangerous premises, faulty equipment, and construction accidents, resulting in multiple verdicts and settlements of over $1 million for D’Arcy Johnson Day. This extensive litigation experience, combined with a tenacious work ethic and unquestioned integrity, has earned Steve a reputation as one of the area’s premier trial attorneys. Mr. Johnson is considered one of New Jersey’s finest trial attorneys and has been recognized nationally in the top 100 by The National Trial Lawyers. Steve’s jury verdict of $9.3 million for a client in 2014 was one of the top 10 verdicts in the State. Steve is a member of the Atlantic County and State of New Jersey Bar Associations, a Certified Arbitrator for the Superior Court of New Jersey, and is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court and Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Steve serves as Co-chair of the Atlantic County Bar Association’s Civil Trial Committee. Steve was a proud member of Widener University’s 1981 Division III National Championship Football team and a graduate of The Delaware Law School. Steve and his wife Jennifer are the parents of four grown children and reside in Mays Landing where is he a former Trustee and member of the Mays Landing Athletic Association.

Richard J. Albuquerque

Richard received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of New Hampshire in 1993 and earned a Juris Doctorate from Widener University School of Law in 1996. After working as the judicial law clerk to the Honorable Eugene D. Serpentelli, A.J.S.C., retired, for the 1996-1997 term, he joined the Atlantic City firm of Levine Staller Sklar Chan Brodsky & Donnelly, PA, where he remained until 2005. In January 2006, Richard joined the Law Office of Christopher M. Day, LLC as a partner and continued to focus his practice in the areas of personal injury and workers’ compensation. In 2008, the firm of D’Arcy Johnson Day was created where he is a shareholder. Richard is certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney, a distinction held by less than 2% of New Jersey attorneys. He is also a board-certified civil advocate, meeting the rigorous objective quality standards set forth by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Richard has been named a “Super Lawyer” by New Jersey Monthly Magazine. Richard has lectured to New Jersey attorneys in the areas of automobile insurance coverage and ethics for the National Business Institute, the New Jersey Association of Trial Lawyers, and the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education. He is a Superior Court of New Jersey Arbitration panelist in Atlantic and Cape May Counties and is admitted to practice in the States of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as the United States District Courts of New Jersey, and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Richard has been elected to the Executive Committee of the New Jersey Association for Justice Board and is also a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates. Richard is also a member of the New Jersey Bar Association and the American Association for Justice. He served on the District I Ethics Committee, where he served as Chairman of the Committee in 2010.

Daniel received his Bachelor of Arts in History from Allegheny College in 2006 and graduated cum laude from Widener University Delaware School of Law in 2010. A Widener Scholar and Constitutional Law Scholar, he participated in the Moot Court Honor Society Competition, and attended the International Law Program at the University of Venice. Prior to entering private practice, Daniel served as a Special Deputy Attorney General with the Office of the Attorney General, Casino Prosecutions Bureau in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Daniel has more than a decade of experience in commercial defense litigation, including workers’ compensation defense, insurance defense, construction litigation, and business litigation. As a member of D’Arcy Johnson Day’s Workers Compensation Department, he draws upon his extensive insurance defense background to help clients suffering from work-related injuries and illnesses pursue their claims for medical treatment, wage replacement, and other appropriate compensation. Daniel has been named a Super Lawyer “Rising Star” from 2014 through 2023. A member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, Ocean County Bar Association, and New Jersey Defense Association, he is admitted to practice in New Jersey, New York, and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Michael graduated from Villanova University and received his Juris Doctorate from Widener University School of Law. Prior to joining D’Arcy Johnson Day, Michael was a partner at the law firm of Cooper Levenson in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Michael has spent his entire career devoting 100% of his practice to plaintiff’s personal injury trial work. Focusing on the practice areas of personal injury, wrongful death, construction accidents, and motor vehicle accidents, Michael has brought hundreds of cases to completion, obtaining millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements for his clients. As a result of these favorable outcomes, he has been selected for inclusion as a “Rising Star” in the area of personal injury law by New Jersey Monthly Magazine from 2013 through 2016. Michael was also recognized by the Boardwalk Journal in 2011 as one of the areas “Who’s Who” and in 2013 by Atlantic City Weekly as one of the areas “Top 40 Under 40”. Licensed to practice law in the State of New Jersey and the United States District Court of New Jersey, Michael is also a Certified Civil Trial Attorney by the New Jersey Supreme Court, a distinction achieved by fewer than 2% of all lawyers licensed in New Jersey. In addition, Michael is also a board-certified Civil Advocate, meeting the rigorous objective quality standards set forth by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. A member of the Atlantic County, Cape May County and New Jersey Bar Associations, the American Association for Justice, New Jersey Association for Justice, and Bar Association of the Federal Third Circuit, he also serves on the Executive Committees of the Vincent S. Hanneman American Inns of Court and as a trustee on the Atlantic County Bar Association. Michael has served the community as a Board member of the Greater Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce, the AtlantiCare Foundation, and the Coalition for a Safe Community. Michael is also the Co-Founder of SoPro-AC a young professional networking organization.

Andrew graduated cum laude from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and received his Juris Doctorate from Seton Hall University School of Law in 1996. After receiving his law degree, he served as an appellate law clerk to New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Virginia Long. Andrew followed his clerkship with a position at a major New York area law firm, McElroy, Deutsch, and Mulvaney. As an associate at the firm, he became well versed in the areas of personal injury insurance defense, corporate and commercial litigation, and white-collar criminal defense. On St. Patrick’s Day of 2000, Andrew joined his brother, Patrick, at the D’Arcy Law Firm, where he helped build a diversified and reputable trial law firm, concentrating in areas of serious personal injury, nursing home, and medical malpractice litigation, as well as mass torts. As an experienced trial attorney, he has been involved in some of the nation’s most high-profile cases and investigations, including a number of complex litigation, mass product/drug defect and environmental toxic tort cases, where he has had numerous multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements. His passionate representation of injured individuals, as well as victims of corporate greed, has translated into impressive success stories for his clients and has earned him an excellent reputation in the legal community as an aggressive and result-driven litigator with significant trial experience that gets results in the courtroom. Each year since 2013, Andrew has been named a “Super Lawyer” by New Jersey Monthly Magazine. He has also earned an “AV” peer rating by Martindale-Hubbell publication, which is the highest such rating available to any individual lawyer. Andrew was selected to serve on the Plaintiff’s Steering Committee in the national NuvaRing birth control litigation. Andrew is licensed to practice law in the State of New Jersey and the United States District Court of New Jersey. He is a member of the Atlantic County and Ocean County Bar Association, the New Jersey State Bar Association, and the American Association for Justice. He is also actively involved as an alumnus of St. Benedict’s Preparatory School, located in Newark, New Jersey, having served on the school’s Board of Alumni.

Jessica Ramirez is Of Counsel with the firm and a trial attorney specializing in serious personal injury, sexual abuse, medical device and product liability litigation. Jessica earned her Juris Doctor from Seton Hall University School of Law and has a Bachelor of Arts from Stockton University, with a Major in Political Science and a Minor in Latin American History. She has served on the New Jersey Ethics Committee and served as an Eminent Domain Commissioner for the State of N.J., presiding over cases dealing with condemnation and eminent domain. Jessica was born in Puerto Rico and moved to New Jersey when she was eight years old. "I was in E.S.L. Classes (English as a Second Language) for four years, and still remember the day I was told that E.S.L. classes were no longer necessary for me to attend." Jessica’s parents worked very hard to provide her with opportunities that they were not so fortunate to have had. Her family emphasized the importance of education, and through their support and her dedication, Jessica was able to excel in school. Prior to attending college, Jessica had never even met a lawyer. College changed this, as her favorite professors were lawyers, inspiring her to chase her own dream of a career in the law. Jessica understands she is not only a member of a class who is underrepresented within her community, but also in her profession. Hispanics, who are 18 percent of the U.S. population, comprise only about 4 percent of U.S. lawyers. For Latina women, these numbers are even smaller, with Latinas accounting for less than 2 percent of American lawyers - as a result, being a Latina attorney in the U.S. is a rarity and something which Jessica is proud to have achieved. Jessica’s legal career has allowed her to serve her community and the underrepresented. Her work as a contract attorney for the Public Defender’s Office of New Jersey allowed her to represent indigent clients and juveniles. "During my time as the managing attorney of the Immigration Program of Catholic Charities, I served the undocumented population, defending individuals’ rights to seek asylum and providing legal counsel to families who have been separated and fighting against related policies." It was during this time that she saw a dire need for competent Spanish-speaking attorneys. The stories had similar themes, undocumented persons having no knowledge of their rights. She met numerous undocumented workers with permanent injuries, who never sought medical treatment or compensation, because they were afraid. She met women who were victims of sex assault but afraid to call the police for fear of deportation, or allowed the statute of limitations to expire due to a lack of knowledge of their rights. This exposure to true injustice ignited her interest to become a civil trial attorney and utilize her legal skills to help those in need. As a civil attorney, Jessica represents individuals who suffer physical and psychological injuries through various acts of negligence and intentional conduct, such as: sexual assault/abuse; product and medical device liability; significant motor vehicle crashes; construction, first-responder and other workplace accidents. Her main focus when advocating for workers’ rights is to educate workers about their right to safe and healthful working conditions, and their right to speak up without fear of retaliation. Jessica often gives talks to undocumented workers where she informs workers that it is the duty of their employers to provide a workplace free of known dangers and safety hazards regardless of their immigration status. Jessica’s main passion is advocating for clients who have suffered sexual assault. She has extensive settlement and litigation experience in this area and knows exactly what it takes to deliver results. Jessica works to seek justice and hold offenders accountable when schools, churches, hotels, jails and other organizations fail to protect children and vulnerable adults. She is persistent in holding abusers accountable for the harm they have caused victims when an organization has failed to take reasonable steps to protect the victim, or worse when these organizations know about the abuse but do nothing to prevent it. Jessica’s newest venture is helping individuals fight back against abusive business practices, by holding sellers of goods accountable when they seek to profit by taking advantage of a consumer. She protects consumers’ rights whey they are injured due to fraud, false or misleading advertising, and defective products. Unfortunately, she meets consumers that have suffered permanent injuries with the use of fraudulent and harmful products. Jessica now confronts corporate wrongdoing and obtains answers for her clients that have suffered the impact of such negligent and intentional conduct. Jessica also has been featured as a speaker and contributed to various panels, including “Media and the Law,” where she served as one of four panelists for the 2019 New Jersey State Bar Association's mid-year meeting in Puerto Rico. She also co-chaired and served as a panelist for a seminar given at the New Jersey Association for Justice's Meadowland Convention in 2019 entitled “Media, Technology and the Law,” as well as a seminar entitled “Media and Advertising: Ethical Rules to Follow,” presented at the New Jersey Association for Justice's Virtual Convention in 2020. In 2021, Jessica was asked to speak at a seminar on the topic of “Practicing Law Post Covid,” at the Women in Mass Torts Convention in Aspen, Colorado. Jessica is a member of the American Association for Justice’s (AAJ), where she was selected as one of only eighteen attorneys nationwide to participate in the AAJ Leadership Academy. She is also a member of the New Jersey Bar Association, the Hispanic National Bar Association, the New Jersey Hispanic Bar Association where she served as Press Secretary, the New Jersey American Association for Justice where she serves in the Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and Women in Mass Torts. Jessica was selected as host of Images/Imagenes TV Show, a four-time Emmy Award-winning show highlighting the Hispanic population in New Jersey. The show was featured on NJTV. Jessica was featured on the Fox News Show "Beyond a Dream," which highlighted her life and career, focusing on overcoming obstacles to achieve the "American Dream." Jessica contributed to a bestselling book written by Bill Stanton, "Prepared, Not Scared: Your Go-To Guide for Staying Safe in an Unsafe World," providing her thoughts to the chapter on staying safe in the workplace from sexual harassment. Jessica also regularly appears on national networks, such as Fox News, The Oxygen Network, HNL, Law & Crime Network, and Univision to discuss various legal issues. Jessica has achieved her dream of becoming a professional where she can help people on a daily basis. Her passion to fight for justice is as strong today as the very first day she became a lawyer. She remains steadfast in her dedication and determination to achieve favorable results on behalf of each and every client. She also will never forget where she comes from or her journey to become the woman and professional she is today - in fact, it is recognition of this journey that serves to motivate her to stay involved and give back in any way she can to her community, a community that means so very much to her.

Kelli A. Prinz

Kelli Prinz focuses her practice on personal injury litigation and education law. Her trial experience has earned her membership to the American Board of Trial Attorneys (ABOTA) and she has received numerous notable distinctions including a Super Lawyers’ Rising Star in 2019 and 2020 and the distinction of a Super Lawyer in 2024. In addition to working to obtain substantial and well-deserved monetary recoveries for her clients, Kelli serves as the appointed Wildwood Board of Education solicitor and as the appointed Special Counsel to various Southern New Jersey boards of education on an as-needed basis for conflict litigation and internal investigations. Kelli is a regularly featured speaker at local and state seminars including for the New Jersey Association for Justice (NJAJ). She educates fellow attorneys on substantive law in the areas of personal injury, education and ethics. Kelli serves as an elected and active Trustee for Atlantic County Bar Association and sits on the District One Fee Arbitration Panel. She volunteers as mentor for the Stockton Women’s Leadership Scholar Program and the Inns of Court.