About James L. Ferraro, Jr.
James L. Ferraro is an experienced and accomplished trial lawyer with a long list of accolades and case wins. Ferraro has fashioned his law practice with a focus on cases involving personal injury, product liability, wrongful death, and environmental toxic torts.
For over 20 years, he has focused his career on asbestos / mass tort litigation, achieving major results in injury cases, including jury verdicts totaling multi-millions of dollars. Mr. Ferraro obtained the highest compensatory recovery in a Florida mesothelioma lawsuit in 1995. He also achieved a nationally record-breaking compensatory jury award for a benign asbestos case in 1997.
He was... Read More
Education
J.D., University of Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, Florida, 1983
Master’s Degree, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida; Major: Accounting
B.B.A., University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, 1978
Awards
Order of Saint John Knights of Malta, 1999
Ellis Island Medal of Honor, 2001
Associations
American Bar Association
Florida Justice Association
Massachusetts Bar Association
Florida State Coordinator for The Public Justice Foundation
Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Fellows of the American Bar Foundation
Florida Institute... Read More
Bar Admissions
Florida, 1983
U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida, 1984
Massachusetts, 1985
U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 1994
U.S. Tax Court, 1994
U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit, 2000
New York, 2002
U.S. District Court... Read More
Languages
English
