Joseph J. Cappelli

Senior Partner

Mr. Cappelli is a senior partner of the firm and is a nationally recognized trial attorney with over twenty years of litigation experience. Mr. Cappelli has successfully litigated and settled hundreds of claims throughout the United States on behalf of people injured by the negligence of others.

Thomas J. Joyce

Partner

Tom Joyce is a trial attorney who has represented railroad workers in cases brought under the Federal Employers Liability Act for nearly 30 years. Tom has tried numerous FELA cases to verdict in railroad cases involving personal injuries, wrongful death, occupational injuries that happen over time, occupational exposure and occupational cancer. Tom has settled hundreds of FELA cases on behalf of injured railroad workers. Tom is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and is a past President of the Academy of Rail Labor Attorneys.

Stephen Monroe

Partner

Stephen is licensed to practice law in Illinois. Working out of our Chicago office, he focuses on representing current and former railroad workers diagnosed with life-threatening cancers caused by the daily exposure to toxic chemicals.

Shawn M. Sassaman

Partner

Mr. Sassaman concentrates his practice on Federal Employer Liability Act (FELA) cases involving railroad workers who were injured on the job and who are seeking just compensation for their injuries. Mr. Sassaman focuses on cases involving traumatic injuries; repetitive stress injuries that occur over the course of time; occupational hearing loss and; asbestos exposure.

Aoife-Roisin Bourke

Partner

Aoife-Roisin Bourke advocates for victims who suffered physical harm or were killed because of the terrorist-related aircraft crashes of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent response efforts. She focuses her practice on assisting members of the 9/11 community bring forward claims under the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.

Margaret E. Cordner

Partner

Margaret Cordner focuses her practice on representing  individuals who have been injured by harmful pharmaceutical drugs and defective medical devices, working to hold accountable those responsible for corporate wrongdoing and inadequate product warning, research and testing.

Mollie Wellins

Associate

Mollie Wellins works in mass tort litigation. Her primary focus is advocating for victims of dangerous pharmaceutical drugs, devices, and biologics. Mollie received her Bachelor’s Degree from the City College of New York, and her Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School. While in law school, she was an article editor for the Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law. She received CALI awards in the topics of Contracts, Trusts and Estates, Medical Malpractice and New York Civil Practice. She is admitted to practice in New York.

Jennifer Hoffman

Associate

Jennifer Hoffman is a seasoned trial attorney based in the Philadelphia office. Jennifer focuses her practice on complex civil litigation involving Federal Employer Liability Act (FELA) claims, product liability, mass and toxic torts, and general negligence. Prior to joining Marc J. Bern & Partners LLP, Jennifer was an Associate at a plaintiff’s personal injury firm and had previously spent fourteen years as an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia where she prosecuted violent felony crimes. Jennifer has extensive trial experience and has successfully litigated thousands of cases throughout her career.

Frank Voler

Associate

Frank Voler is a trial attorney in the Philadelphia office concentrating on mass tort, FELA and personal injury matters. Frank has extensive experience in litigating personal injury cases, including wrongful death, drunk driver, commercial trucking, and appellate cases. Frank attended law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Frank received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Naval Academy.

Frank is admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, the U.S. District Court for Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Courts for Eastern, Western and Middle Districts of North Carolina, and the U.S Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Izabela Poznanski

Associate

Izabela Poznanski is an experienced attorney working in the Chicago office, focusing on representing injured railroad workers under FELA. Prior to joining Marc J. Bern & Partners, LLP, Izabela represented hundreds of clients in various personal injury and worker’s compensation matters. She has also represented individuals successfully at trial.

Hanna Shoshany

Associate

Hanna Shoshany is an Associate attorney in the New York Office. Hanna’s primary focus is advocating for victims of dangerous pharmaceutical drugs, devices, and biologics. Hanna has practiced in both state and federal courts in both civil and criminal litigation.

Martin McLemore

Associate

Martin McLemore is an Associate Attorney based in the Philadelphia office. Martin focuses on representing railroad workers under the Federal Employers Liability Act. Martin received his Juris Doctor from Washington University of St. Louis in 2019. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Psychology magna cum laude from Portland State University in 2015. Prior joining Marc J. Bern & Partners LLP, Martin served as an Assistant District Attorney for the city of Philadelphia. Martin is admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania.

Greg McMahon

Associate

Greg McMahon is a seasoned litigator and trial attorney based in the Chicago office. Greg focuses his practice on complex civil litigation involving Federal Employer Liability Act (FELA) claims, mass and toxic torts, and general negligence.

William C. Booth

Associate

William C. Booth is an Associate Attorney in our Philadelphia office. William focuses his practice on complex civil litigation involving Federal Employer Liability Act (FELA) claims, product liability, mass and toxic torts, and general negligence. Prior to joining the firm, William worked as a Deputy Attorney General in New Jersey and defended the state against civil claims in state and federal courts.

Federica Caloia

Associate

Federica Caloia is an Associate Attorney in the Philadelphia office. Federica focuses her practice on complex civil litigation involving Federal Employer Liability Act (FELA) claims and general negligence. Prior to joining the firm, Federica worked at a small general services firm in Blandon, Pennsylvania handling a variety of cases including criminal defense, civil litigation, estate planning and contract drafting.

Gianfranco Regina

Associate

Gianfranco Regina is an Associate Attorney for the firm’s September 11th Victim Compensation Fund practice. His primary focus within the practice is to guide responders, firefighters, police, recovery workers, volunteers, and survivors who lived, worked, went to school, attended day care, or were present in the dust cloud in the 9/11 exposure zone through the World Trade Center Health Program process. The World Trade Center Health Program provides completely free medical monitoring, testing, treatment and prescription drugs for both physical and mental health conditions certified as resulting from WTC toxin exposure.

Carl Sessions

Associate

Carl Sessions is an Associate Attorney in the firm’s Chicago office. His practice focuses on representing injured railroad workers in cases arising under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act. Carl is dedicated to fighting for the justice that the firm’s clients deserve.

Carl graduated magna cum laude from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2019. In law school, he earned CALI awards for highest grades in Civil Procedure and Legal Writing III. He also competed with the school’s national Moot Court team and clerked with the Lake County Public Defender’s Office. After graduating, Carl worked as an Equal Justice Works fellow at Law Center for Better Housing in Chicago, where he defended tenants facing eviction. Prior to joining the firm, Carl served as a pro se judicial law clerk in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Robert A. Eisenberg

Of Counsel

Robert Eisenberg has more than 25 years of experience in rendering consultative services in the discovery of Electronically Stored Information (ESI), Computer Forensics, Electronic Data Preservation and Retention and eDiscovery in a Cybersecurity Context. Mr. Eisenberg frequently conducts seminars, webinars, CLE courses and other presentations on the subjects of eDiscovery, Computer Forensics and Data Security.

Colleen Miller

Of Counsel

Colleen Miller graduated New York Law School in 2012 and was barred to New York State in 2013. She has a background in various practices including asbestos litigation, entertainment and sports law and pharmaceutical litigation.

Joseph “Hilik” Shenkar

Of Counsel

Mr. Shenkar is of counsel for Marc J. Bern & Partners. Mr. Shenkar’s work is primarily dedicated to helping clients harmed by the toxic “forever” chemicals in the Aqueous Firefighting Foam (AFFF) litigation. Prior to his current role, Mr. Shenkar collaborated with the law firm’s opioid litigation team, successfully advocating for local counties and municipalities directly impacted by the devastating consequences of the opioid crisis.

James West

Of Counsel

James is a trial attorney in the Los Angeles office. He has devoted his career to standing up for those harmed by the wrongdoing of others. He has helped numerous clients achieve multi-million dollar results for catastrophic injuries, wrongful death, and other types of harm.