Michael Lizzi, Esq.

“At our firm we take each client's case very seriously as if it were the only case in our office. Each client represents an opportunity to represent consumers in the struggle for civil justice currently raging in our state and across the nation.”

Michael Lizzi is a partner at MDLR, and has lived in Fort Lee and Paramus, New Jersey since 1979.

Michael Lizzi practices complex and standard tort litigation in the state and federal courts of New York and New Jersey in the fields of medical and hospital negligence, nursing home negligence, wrongful death, motor vehicle collision and highway design negligence, property and building defects, and defective consumer products. Mr. Lizzi received his Juris Doctorate and graduated Magna Cum Laude in the top 4% of his class from New York Law School in 1991. Before receiving his law degree, he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University in 1988. Before joining Michael Maggiano in 1996 as an associate, Mr. Lizzi worked as a litigation associate in the New York firm of Novick, Edelstein, Lubell, Reisman, Wasserman & Leventhal, P.C., joining that firm in 1991. He has also interned for the Honorable Marie Lambert of the New York State Surrogate Court, New York County.

He is licensed to practice before the state and federal courts of New York and New Jersey as well as in the federal district courts of the southern and east districts of New and the district of New Jersey. He is a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Member, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, the Bergen County Bar Association, the Hudson County Bar Association. He is also a recipient of the American Jurisprudence Awards in Evidence, Constitutional Law and the Uniform Commercial Code.

Michael Lizzi's resumé:

Education

New York Law School
Juris Doctor, Magna Cum Laude, 1991
Graduated in top 4% of class

New York University
Bachelor of Arts, 1988

Professional Practice

• Licensed to practice in United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
• Licensed to United States District Court for Eastern District and Southern District of New York

Professional Organizations and Activities

• Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Member
• New York State Trial Lawyers Association, Member
• Bergen County Bar Association, Member
• Hudson County Bar Association, Member
• Received American Jurisprudence Awards in Evidence, Constitutional Law and Uniform Commercial Code, 1991

Published Articles

Journal of International and Comparative Law, Publication: Delimiting the Jurisdiction of the World Court: Reason in the Interest of Progress