Jeffery Samel & Partners

Practice Areas

Motor Vehicle; Premises Liability; Professional Liability; Municipal Liability; Construction; Recreation; Nursing Home; Dram Shop; Subrogation; Workers' Compensation Law; Product Liability; Education

B.A. Fairleigh Dickenson University (Magna Cum Laude), 1974
J.D. Fordham University School of Law, 1977
Admitted to the New Jersey Bar, 1977
Admitted to the New York Bar, 1990

Gary Matano joined the firm in 2002 and is the partner in charge of our New Jersey office. He also handles matters in New York for the firm's clients. He is a Certified Civil Trial Attorney in New Jersey, with significant experience representing insureds and self-insureds in general liability, product liability, municipal liability, professional liability, education, recreation, Dram Shop, nursing home, and construction litigation cases. He also has expertise in insurance coverage, Workers' Compensation cases, No-Fault coverage, and subrogation issues. He has tried more than one hundred cases to verdict.

Mr. Matano is a former County Prosecutor in Passaic County, New Jersey; has served as a Municipal Prosecutor in the Township of Wayne, New Jersey; and served as an Adjunct Professor of Business Law and Paralegal Studies at Passaic County Community College and Morris County Community College. Mr. Matano has served as an elected Trustee of the Wayne Township Board of Education, as a result of which he is well versed in Education Law and school liability issues.