Italian-Speaking Attorneys

Joumana Kayrouz is the founder and principal attorney of The Law Offices of Joumana Kayrouz PLLC, recognized as one of Michigan's largest personal injury law firms and the largest woman-owned law firm. She has recovered hundreds of millions for clients, is fluent in English, Arabic, French, and Italian, and is known for her social activism and philanthropy. She holds degrees from American University of Beirut, Southern Connecticut State University, Yale University (Master's in Ethics), and Wayne State University School of Law (JD).

Frank Verderame

Phoenix, AZ

Frank Verderame is a seasoned trial attorney and founding partner, specializing in personal injury and wrongful death litigation. He is a Board Certified Specialist and has been recognized as 'Lawyer of the Year' by Best Lawyers. A licensed pilot and lifelong motorcycle rider, he handles complex aviation and motorcycle accident cases. Frank is deeply involved in legal communities, serving on the Board of Governors for the American Association for Justice and the Board of Directors for the Melvin Belli Society, and is also active in community charity work.

Elizabeth H. Faiella

Winter Park, FL

Elizabeth H. Faiella is an experienced medical malpractice attorney, noted lecturer, and author. Practicing since 1976, she is a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates and board-certified in Civil Trial Law by The Florida Bar since 1983.

Donna M. Nesselbush

Providence, RI

Attorney Donna M. Nesselbush is a founding partner of Marasco & Nesselbush, dedicated to helping people with personal injury, medical malpractice, Social Security disability, and workers’ compensation claims. She graduated from Brown University in 1984 and Suffolk University School of Law cum laude. She also graduated from Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is the founder and Chair of the Rhode Island Bar Association’s Social Security Disability Committee, a 'Sustaining Member' of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives, and a member of the American and Rhode Island Associations for Justice. She is admitted to practice in all Rhode Island courts, the Federal District Court of Rhode Island, and the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a State Senator of Rhode Island and Chief Judge of the Pawtucket Municipal Court. She speaks English, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. She was awarded the Ada Sawyer Award in 2014, named 'Person of the Year' for the Pawtucket Hall of Fame, and received the Eleanor Slater Award in 2016. She has also been named to the Super Lawyers list.

Holly Ostrov Ronai

New York, NY

Holly Ostrov Ronai, Esq. received her Juris Doctor Degree, Cum Laude, from Yeshiva University, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law in New York City. She is a lifetime member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum® and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum®, The Top Trial Lawyers in America®, and has been selected for New York Metro Super Lawyers. She co-founded Ronai & Ronai, LLP, in 1996.

Hyram M. Montero

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Hyram M. Montero graduated from Loyola University of Chicago and The John Marshall Law School. Admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1980 and Florida Bar in 1982, he has over 30 years of experience representing plaintiffs in complex personal injury and wrongful death cases, including traumatic brain injury. He has handled over 350 jury trials and 200 non-jury trials. He is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and is a Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He is fluent in English, Spanish, and Italian.

Charles C. DeStefano

Staten Island, NY

Charles C. DeStefano is an attorney with over 35 years of experience in personal injury law, licensed in New York and New Jersey. He holds a BA from Fordham University and a JD from Pace University School of Law. He is highly active in the legal community, serving as Chairman of the Mayors Committee on City Marshal and President of the Staten Island Trial Lawyers Association. He has received multiple awards, including 'Super Lawyers' recognition for several years and humanitarian awards for community service. He is fluent in Spanish and conversant in Italian.

Trizia G. Eavenson

Melbourne, FL

Trizia G. Eavenson is the founder of Eavenson Law, LLC, serving as an attorney, mediator, and counselor at law. She is of Puerto Rican and Italian heritage, fluent in English, Italian, and Spanish. Her educational background includes a Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University College of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from The University of South Florida. With legal experience dating back to 1993, she specializes in civil litigation, encompassing catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, and medical malpractice. Trizia is also a Florida Supreme Court Certified Civil Mediator and Approved Arbitrator, and has received numerous awards and nominations for her legal expertise and community involvement.

A.P. Pishevar

Rockville, MD

A.P. Pishevar is an AV rated attorney and Managing Attorney at Pishevar & Associates, P.C. He is a seasoned trial attorney with over 30 years of experience, admitted to the bar in 1993. His practice areas include Criminal Defense, Civil Litigation, and Trial Practice. He has been recognized with numerous awards including an AV (Preeminent) rating from Martindale Hubbell, a 10/10 score from AVVO, and the 'Top 100 Trial Lawyers' Award. He has been a keynote speaker at Cleveland-Marshall Law School and is a Captain in the Maryland Military Defense Force JAC Corps.

Anthony J. D’Amico

Pittsburgh, PA

Mr. D'Amico is a founding member of D'Amico Law Offices, LLC. With decades of litigation experience, he began his career as an Assistant District Attorney in the Allegheny County District Attorney's Office. He concentrates his practice in areas of serious personal injury, wrongful death, pharmaceutical cases, product liability cases, and medical malpractice cases.

Dario Anthony Chinigo

New York, NY

Dario Anthony Chinigo is a personal injury attorney with over 20 years of experience, specializing in litigation. He is fluent in Italian and conversational in Spanish. He has been recognized as a Super Lawyer from 2013-2018.

Evan M. Oshan

Seattle, WA

Evan Oshan is the founder of Oshan & Associates P.C., with over two decades of experience in personal injury law. He graduated Cum Laude from UCLA and earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of California Hastings College of The Law. Evan served as an international law intern at the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and an intern for a United States Senator. He is licensed in New York and Washington and has a reputation for aggressive and direct representation, achieving multi-million dollar settlements and verdicts. He is recognized by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel, Top 100 Lawyers, and Lawyers of Distinction.

Michael Bersani

Auburn, NY

Michael Bersani joined Michaels Bersani Kalabanka in 1995 after clerking for 2 years at the Appellate Division, Fourth Department. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Syracuse University College of Law in 1993, where he was a law review editor and inducted into the Order of the Coif and Justinian Society, also receiving the “Scribe Award” for legal writing. He holds a Master’s degree in Spanish from Middlebury College. He is fluent in Spanish and French, and speaks basic Italian, serving many Spanish-speaking personal injury clients. Bersani has been recognized as “Personal Injury Lawyer of the Year” (2021) and “Professional Malpractice Lawyer of the Year” (2022, 2024) by Best Lawyers in America. He holds the highest “AV” ranking from Martindale-Hubbell and is consistently selected as a “Super Lawyer” and a “Blue Ribbon Panelist” by Super Lawyers. He is also listed in The Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers and is a member of the Multi-million Dollar Advocates Forum. Bersani is a Board Director of the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers, a respected legal writer and lecturer, and author of "Understanding Your New York Personal Injury Claim". He is also a community activist, serving on boards for the Worker Justice Center of New York, Geneva Human Rights Commission, Auburn YMCA, and Boys & Girls Club of Geneva, and was named 2009 Citizen of Year by Geneva Chamber of Commerce.

Victoria Wickman

New York, NY

Victoria Wickman is the founder of the Law Office of Victoria Wickman, a boutique law firm in New York City focusing on medical malpractice, personal injury, and traumatic brain injury cases. She graduated from St. John's University School of Law in 2001 and has over 20 years of experience. She is licensed in New York and New Jersey and is fluent in Italian. Ms. Wickman has served as Co-Vice Chairperson of the Medical Malpractice Committee of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and was President of the organization from 2024-2025. She is also a recipient of the Pen Award for her work on cancer misdiagnosis statutes of limitations.

Valerie B. Calistro

Danbury, CT

Valerie B. Calistro is the Managing Partner of Ventura Law, specializing in Civil Litigation, Personal Injury, Mass Torts, and Complex Litigation. She also represents victims of sexual assaults and traumatic brain injuries. She has successfully handled thousands of civil cases, many exceeding a million dollars, in Connecticut and New York state and federal courts. She is proficient in French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.

Mitchell Proner is the second-generation managing partner of Proner & Proner, a nationally renowned personal injury attorney and trial lawyer. He has recovered over $500 million for clients and has 30+ years of experience. He is also a passionate motorcyclist who advocates for riders' rights and has represented clients in over 30 jurisdictions across five continents. He gives his personal cell phone number to clients.

Manuel Rivera is the founding attorney at The Law Offices of Manuel Rivera, Esq. & Associates, P.C. With over 22 years of experience, he provides legal representation in immigration law, workers' compensation, personal injury, federal litigation, criminal law, family law, and traffic law. He serves clients in the Washington D.C. metro area, including Maryland and Virginia, as well as throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.

Michael F. Skolnick

Salt Lake City, UT

Michael F. Skolnick joined Kipp and Christian, P.C. in 1988 and became a shareholder in 1992. His practice includes defending professionals in liability administrative and court proceedings, and representing plaintiffs and defendants in personal injury, wrongful death, drug and medical device litigation, and commercial litigation. He is AV Preeminent* peer review rated, and selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers.

Daniel Lustig

West Palm Beach, FL

Daniel Lustig’s practice involves litigating catastrophic and other significant injury cases as well as complex-business-litigation cases. Daniel’s personal injury practice involves the representation of clients injured as a result of serious auto and trucking accidents. Daniel’s business-litigation practice leverages his LLM (Master of Laws) in intellectual property, where he and Mr. Pike obtained one of the largest willful copyright infringement jury verdicts in the Southern District of Florida. Daniel has 14 years of experience handling disputes in the areas of trademark, copyright, trade secrets, false advertising, unfair competition, franchise-related litigation, breach of contract, partnership disputes, fraud, denials of insurance coverage, and litigation related to multi-million dollar loans and personal guarantees. In addition, Daniel counsels clients in the protection of their intellectual property rights, businesses and prosecutes the registration of Trademarks with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and copyrights with the United States Copyright Office. Daniel was born in San Jose, Costa Rica, and moved to West Palm Beach, Florida in December of 1997. Daniel graduated from Florida Atlantic University, where he was named to the Dean’s List and was inducted into the National Political Science Honor Society. Daniel earned a Master of Science in International Affairs from Florida State University, and his law degree and a Master of Laws in Intellectual Property from the University of New Hampshire School of Law. While in law school, Daniel competed in the commercial arbitration team at the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, Austria, and later coached the Law School’s International Commercial Arbitration team. Daniel also clerked for a staff legal counsel office of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company defending personal injury, product liability, premises liability, and workers compensation cases, and for a Coral Gables law firm assisting in a copyright infringement lawsuit involving the Trump Towers in North Miami Beach. After serving as Special Prosecutor of the State Attorney’s Office and working as an associate for some of the most prestigious personal injury and complex commercial litigation law firms in South Florida, Daniel opened his law firm with partner, Michael Pike. Daniel is a member of the Florida Bar Association, the Palm Beach County Bar Association, the Palm Beach County Justice Association, the American Bar Association, and the South Palm Beach County Bar Association. Daniel is the President of the Board of Directors of Families First of Palm Beach County, a member of the Board of Directors of the Puerto Rican/Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and served as a member of the Board of Directors of Networking Hispanos. Daniel was named to the list of Top 40 Under 40 for Attorneys in South Florida, and was recognized as a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers magazine. Daniel is admitted to practice in all courts of the State of Florida, including the United States Court in the Southern, Middle, and Northern Districts of Florida, as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Nathan W. Henry

Kennewick, WA

Nathan W. Henry earned his J.D. from Gonzaga University School of Law in 2005. He has participated in several personal injury jury trials resulting in favorable verdicts and has achieved large settlements for clients in various personal injury cases. He is fluent in Italian.

Lauren Kelly Gielarowski

New Castle, PA

Lauren Kelly Gielarowski is a dedicated trial attorney specializing in personal injury law, with a particular focus on medical malpractice and catastrophic injury cases. Her extensive background allows her to provide exceptional representation for individuals who have been harmed due to medical negligence or catastrophic accidents. Lauren began her legal career at a large, international law firm, where she gained valuable experience in financial services litigation, including consumer class actions and shareholder derivative suits. This foundation in complex legal matters honed her analytical skills and attention to detail. Thereafter, and prior to joining LGKG, Lauren was a partner at a national law firm, where she represented healthcare providers across Pennsylvania and West Virginia. She worked with a diverse range of clients, including nationally recognized hospitals, community hospitals, nursing homes, physicians, and registered nurses, giving her a well-rounded understanding of the healthcare industry and its legal landscape. After years of defending healthcare providers, Lauren’s passion for advocating for injured individuals led her to transition to the plaintiff side at LGKG. Her defense experience gives her a unique perspective, allowing her to understand the strategies and tactics of opposing counsel. This insight, combined with her deep commitment to her clients, enables her to fight effectively and with empathy on behalf of injured individuals. Lauren is currently a fellow of the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County. The Academy is an invitation-only organization of premier trial lawyers in Allegheny County. Admission into the Academy is by nomination and only a limited number of open positions are available on a yearly basis. Through a rigorous selection process, the Academy selects for membership those trial lawyers who have exhibited excellence and the highest levels of ethical standards and professionalism.

Luigi Vigliotti

Garden City, NY

Luigi Vigliotti is an attorney with over 20 years of experience, including serving as a former New York State Prosecutor and Assistant District Attorney in Nassau County from 2001 to 2004. He also worked as a former traffic prosecutor. He has experience in prosecuting misdemeanor and felony cases, and later defended insurance companies in personal injury cases before starting his own practice in 2008. He focuses on criminal defense, personal injury litigation, and traffic matters. He is Chief Counsel for the New York State Fraternal Order of Police Foundation Inc. and former staff counsel to a New York State Senator. He has taught trial advocacy at Hofstra Law School.

Chad B. McKay

Ogden, UT

Chad B. McKay is an attorney practicing in Utah since 1989, offering personalized legal services in personal injury, family law, immigration law, collections, and criminal law. He is fluent in Spanish and has served as President of the Weber County Bar Association and Judge Pro Tempore.

Francisco A. Pecci

Mobile, AL

Francisco works to provide effective solutions to complex legal issues facing clients in a variety of industries. Focusing primarily on maritime and admiralty law, Francisco represents and individuals involved in shipping, shipbuilding, tug and barge operations, and recreational watersports. Francisco also works with cases involving commercial disputes, transportation, and construction litigation. Francisco graduated cum laude from the University of Alabama and received his J.D. from Cumberland School of Law, where he was named Scholar of Merit in Constitutional Law, State & Local Taxation, and Sea, Ocean & Coastal Law. During both college and law school, Francisco held leadership roles in various student organizations and societies. Having grown up on the water and with family in the marine industry, Francisco has a great appreciation of all things maritime. He incorporates this into his practice and has represented vessel owners, port agencies, shipyards, and waterfront businesses in an array of legal matters, including personal injury and property damage litigation, contract disputes, and insurance coverage. Francisco has also assisted with cases involving international entities and speaks Spanish and Italian fluently.