Paterson, NJ

Raymond L. Hamlin

Raymond L. Hamlin is a founding partner at Hunt, Hamlin & Ridley, established in 1995. He is a trial lawyer specializing in employment discrimination, civil rights (including excessive force and wrongful death cases), criminal defense, and representing governmental entities. He has achieved significant jury awards and settlements, including a $1.48 million award against the Port Authority and a $600,000 settlement against Rutgers University. In 2019, he was recognized among the top 50 verdicts in NJ and top 100 in the US. He serves as Counsel to XLegacy, LLC, representing Malcolm X's daughters, and is co-counsel with Benjamin Crump in a wrongful death lawsuit related to Malcolm X's assassination. He is a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., and a former NJ Supreme Court Ethics Committee member.

Alan Friedman

Alan Friedman concentrates his practice in the area of personal injury trial work for plaintiffs, specializing in products liability, FELA (railroad workers), asbestos cases, worker’s compensation, wrongful death cases, traumatic brain injury cases and automobile accident cases. He has won large jury verdicts in New Jersey and New York State Courts. He was a partner at Horn, Shechtman, P.C. prior to forming Bagolie Friedman, LLC. Alan is married and has two sons. He has also lectured to lawyers on the subject of epidemiology and represented 9-11 World Trade Center Victims and their families pro-bono as a member of the Trial Lawyers Care program.

Ronald C. Hunt

Ronald C. Hunt is a founding partner of Hunt, Hamlin & Ridley. A native New Yorker, he attended St. John's University and Rutgers Law School, graduating in 1983. He is admitted to the New Jersey and Pennsylvania bars. His career began in the Public Defenders Office, Appellate Section, and he later gained extensive trial experience in criminal and civil cases, including medical malpractice and products liability. His current practice areas include criminal law, personal injury, medical malpractice, matrimonial, education law, and Title 59 defense. He was the 1998 recipient of the Essex County Bar Association’s Achievement Award for excellence in Criminal Law.

Jorge Feliz

Jorge Feliz has diverse experience in commercial litigation, personal injury, PIP arbitration, real estate transactions, and purchase/sale agreements. He was recognized as a New Jersey Super Lawyers Rising Star in Real Estate in 2020. He is licensed in New Jersey and New York. He earned undergraduate degrees in Finance and International Business from New York University and a J.D. from Seton Hall Law School.

Ricky E. Bagolie

Ricky Edward Bagolie represents clients on a wide range of personal injury litigation matters in the areas of nursing home neglect, workers’ compensation, workplace and railroad injury (FELA), toxic exposures and wrongful death litigation as well as Municipal Court matters involving the trucking industry. Prior to co-founding Bagolie Friedman, LLC, Mr. Bagolie served as a Judicial Clerk to the Honorable Peter F. Boggia, Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey and was a partner with the Jersey City law firm, Horn Shechtman, PC, where he founded their Nursing Home Litigation Department. He is active in his home-town community of Clifton, New Jersey where he is president of the Passaic-Clifton Chapter of UNICO National, a trustee of the Passaic County 200 Club and an associate member of the Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 46.

Arthur V. Lynch is a leading attorney in the New York metropolitan area, known for his 20 years of experience as a defense attorney before switching to representing personal injury plaintiffs. He is a Certified Civil Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey and has achieved numerous multi-million dollar awards and settlements. He is also a regular speaker on trial practice for legal education courses.

As a persuasive, inventive trial attorney, Christopher T. Karounos concentrates his practice on representing individuals seriously injured by the negligence of others. He has handled cases arising from assaults, motor vehicle crashes, all manner of slip, trip, or fall injuries, watercraft collisions, trucking incidents, construction defects, motorcycle accidents, and worksite injuries. Chris is one of only a small handful of lawyers Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney. He is a former Adjunct Professor of Law at Rutgers University Law School-Newark for advanced trial presentation and served as Head Coach for the Law School’s National Mock Trial Team, and a longtime Barrister for the Bergen County Pashman Civil Inns of Court. Chris is equally comfortable explaining the complexities and nuances of a case to a jury as he is when informing and supporting his clients at each step of their case and explaining the litigation process. For many years Chris has also successfully handled numerous commercial litigation and trial matters. He is a successful appellate advocate, having won several important appeals for both his personal injury and commercial litigation clients over the years. Chris is a former volunteer EMT-D with nearly 20 years of experience in trauma situations. Having treated and transported hundreds of injured patients, he brings a unique understanding of clients’ trauma experiences from their injury locations and uses that knowledge when he vigorously fights for their rights throughout their cases. Having attained a Biology degree with a biomedical concentration, served as an EMT/Crew Chief &Trainer, Chris uses his understanding of medicine, science, and his trial law skills and experience to zealously advocate for his clients against the insurance defense companies and, when needed, to a Judge and Jury.