Valerie has recently joined the firm as counsel in the commercial litigation group at Shapiro, Croland, Reiser, Apfel, & Di Iorio, LLP. She has extensive experience handling insurance coverage disputes under various types of insurance policies including commercial general liability, professional, homeowners and environmental policies. Valerie has also represented small to mid-size businesses in a range of commercial disputes including contract claims, collection actions, consumer fraud claims, construction defect claims and personal injury/property damage claims. She is the frequent recipient of court appointments in a variety of matters including allocation of settlements and serving as guardian ad litem for minors and alleged incapacitated individuals. Valerie is a magna cum laude graduate of Montclair State University and Seton Hall University School of Law. She served as a law clerk for the Honorable James J. Petrella, Presiding Judge of the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey.
Valerie has recently joined the firm as counsel in the commercial litigation group at Shapiro, Croland, Reiser, Apfel, & Di Iorio, LLP. She has extensive experience handling insurance coverage disputes under various types of insurance policies including commercial general liability, professional, homeowners and environmental policies. Valerie has also represented small to mid-size businesses in a range of commercial disputes including contract claims, collection actions, consumer fraud claims, construction defect claims and personal injury/property damage claims. She is the frequent recipient of court appointments in a variety of matters including allocation of settlements and serving as guardian ad litem for minors and alleged incapacitated individuals. Valerie is a magna cum laude graduate of Montclair State University and Seton Hall University School of Law. She served as a law clerk for the Honorable James J. Petrella, Presiding Judge of the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey.
- B.A. magna cum laude, Montclair State University, 1988
- J.D. Seton Hall University School of Law, 1991
- Commercial Litigation
- Insurance Coverage
- Probate and Estate Litigation
- Appellate Practice
- New Jersey 1991
- United States District Court of New Jersey 1991
- United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Federal Circuit 2003
- New Jersey Super Lawyers 2015-2023 in the field of insurance coverage
- Bergen Magazine Top Lawyers in category of Insurance Law 2020 – 2022; and Appellate
Practice 2022 - 201 Magazine Top Lawyers in categories of Insurance Law and Appellate Practice 2018 and
2019
- Women in American Law: Bergen County Professional Women’s Network (March
2023) - Unfair Settlements Practices Act: New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal
Education, Insurance Law Institute (August 2022) - Insurance Risk Management and Environmental Considerations in Commercial
Transactions: NJSBA Annual Meeting (May 2022) - Employment Issues Related to COVID 19 and the Return to the Workplace, Bergen
County Professional Women’s Network (Nov. 2021) - Privilege and Ethical Issues, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education,
Insurance Law Bootcamp (Nov. 2021) - Allocation, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Insurance Law
Roundtable (August 2020) - Business Disputes and Litigation for Small Business Owners, Bergen County
Professional Women’s Network (April 2019) - Co-Author “ERISA Liens in Personal Injury Cases”, New Jersey Lawyer Magazine,
August 2014) - Insurance Disputes Involving Mold, NJSBA Annual Meeting May 2011
- New Jersey State Bar Association
- Bergen County Bar Association
- Chair, Insurance Law Section NJSBA May 2022 – May 2023
- Master and Member of Executive Committee, Morris Pashman American Inn of Court
- Former Member of District IIA Fee Arbitration Committee
- Women Lawyers in Bergen County
- Bergen County Professional Women’s Network
- Trustee Margaret P. Muscarelle Early Childhood Development Center
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