Valerie A. Vladyka

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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