Fernandez, Jordi

Michael A. Ferrara, Jr. has been an attorney since 1972. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the New Jersey Supreme Court, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the Federal Courts. He is certified by both the National Board of Trial Advocacy and the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney. He is the founder and former chair of the Association of Trial Attorneys of American - New Jersey Legal PAC, the lawyer's political action committee.

He is past president of the Association of Trial Attorneys of American - New Jersey, a Fellow of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) a Master of the Camden Inns of Court, a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and a past president and current trustee of the Civil Justice Foundation.

Mr. Ferrara was invited to become a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Attorneys, one of 500 selected in the world. He was awarded the "AV" [highest] rating by Martindale-Hubbell, The Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement by Association of Trial Attorneys of American - New Jersey (ATLA-NJ), and The Trial Bar Award to outstanding trial attorneys presented by Trial Attorneys of New Jersey (TANJ). Since 1997 he has served on Senator Corzine, Lautenberg, Torricelli's, and Medendez' Federal Judicial Selection Advisory Committee and was recently appointed to the Burlington County Judicial and Prosecutorial Selection Committee. He is listed in the book The Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Ferrara has also been designated as a Super Lawyer in New Jersey, each year for the past four years, a peer evaluated rating only given to 5% of attorneys in NJ.

Mr. Ferrara is frequently asked to lecture for the Association of Trial Attorneys (ATLA), now known as the American Association for Justice (AAJ), the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education (ICLE), the National College of Trial Advocacy, the Practicing Law Institute (PLI), and many state trial lawyer organizations. He has published many articles dealing with medical malpractice, products liability, auto crashes and personal injury cases. He previously owned and operated a cellular telephone company in Texas, taught business law at Camden County College, and traveled throughout Russia teaching the newly democratic country how to implement a mortgage system to increase home ownership. He is a former U.S. Naval officer and a Vietnam veteran.

He graduated from Villanova University in 1964 with a B.S. in Mathematics and the University of San Diego School of Law in 1972 with a J.D. He is married and resides with Penny, his wife of 37 years, in Marlton, New Jersey. They have five children, Michael, Mary, John, Anne and Jennie.  Mr. Ferrara is also on the Board of Trustees for the organization Amigos de Jesus, an orphanage for Honduran children.