Robert Mongeluzzi is one of the finest trial lawyers in America. He has the largest multi-plaintiff settlement in Pennsylvania history – $227 million. He has the largest personal injury verdict in Pennsylvania history – $124.4 million. He has the largest settlement of a construction case in American history – $101 million. He was one of the lead plaintiffs attorneys in the largest settlement of a railroad accident case in American history – $265 million. He has the largest verdict for a construction worker in American history – $75.6 million. He has the largest motor vehicle verdict in Pennsylvania history. He has the largest dram shop verdict in Pennsylvania history. He has the largest individual personal injury settlement in Pennsylvania history – $71.1 million. He has the largest wrongful death settlement in Philadelphia County history – $17 million. He has the largest settlement in Lehigh County history – $16.5 million. He has more than 350 verdicts and settlements in excess of a million dollars.

Neil O’Donnell is Board Certified in Civil Trial Advocacy and Pre-Trial Procedure and has been practicing law for over 30 years. Mr. O’Donnell is admitted to the Pennsylvania Courts, United States District Court (Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania), Third Court of Appeals, and United States Supreme Court.

His recognitions include: Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Top 10 and Top 100, Martindale-Hubbell’s AV Preeminent Rating, National Trial Lawyer Top 100, Best Lawyers, Litigation Counsel of America Fellow, American Society of Legal Advocates Top 100 Lawyer, Rue Ratings Best Attorneys of America and National Association of Distinguished Counsel.

Mr. O’Donnell is a member of the Pennsylvania, American and Federal Bar Association Trial Lawyers for Public Safety, Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, Pennsylvania Association for Justice, American Association for Justice, and the Melvin Belli Society.

Mr. O’Donnell is a member of the Pennsylvania State Appellate Rules Committee appointed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and serves as a hearing examiner for the Disciplinary Board of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Tracey S. Lewis is a personal injury attorney who has been practicing law for over 20 years. After graduating from Temple University School of Law, Ms. Lewis worked for a prestigious Philadelphia insurance defense firm where she specialized in medical malpractice. In addition, Ms. Lewis has worked in various capacities in the City of Philadelphia Law Department, City of Philadelphia Mayor’s Office and a prestigious Philadelphia lobbying firm.

In 2003, she returned to her hometown of Harrisburg, PA to care for her elderly parents. She served as a Commissioner in Susquehanna Township and ran for Magisterial District Judge in the same district losing by just 157 votes after garnering over 3,200 votes in the general election. Ms. Lewis left politics and began working for a Harrisburg plaintiffs’ personal injury firm. While there, she finally found an area of law she loved. In plaintiffs’ trial work, Ms. Lewis was able to use all of combined life experiences to advocate for those who needed help the most—hurt people who were unable to fight for themselves. It was the ultimate David versus Goliath challenge. She started her own practice in 2014 and has worked tirelessly to ensure that her clients get the respect and recovery they deserve. She lives in Susquehanna Township with her husband, plays a mean game of basketball, loves to travel and enjoys cooking, RV camping and beach hopping. A member of Philadelphia’s Big Five Hall of Fame, she has never met a challenge she didn’t love, either on the court, or in the courtroom!

At Romano Law Group, Hali Marsocci handles a variety of wrongful death and personal injury matters, concentrating her practice on traumatic brain injury cases, as well as structural collapse cases.

Ms. Marsocci earned her Juris Doctorate from Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, Florida and her Bachelor of Business Administration from Stetson University in DeLand, Florida.

In addition to practicing law, Ms. Marsocci has a passion for supporting women in the legal profession. She is the founder and co-chair of the National Trial Lawyer’s Women’s Leadership Forum, a committee chair for the Palm Beach County Chapter of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers, is on the Board of the Florida Justice Association’s Women’s Caucus, and is a member of the Palm Beach County Justice Association’s Women’s Caucus. Ms. Marsocci is also on the current President of the National Trial Lawyer’s Top 40 Under 40.

BAR ADMISSIONS
– Florida – All State Courts
– United States District Court, Southern District of Florida
– United States District County, Northern District of Florida

MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS
– American Association for Justice, Member
– Florida Justice Association, Member
– Florida Justice Association Women’s Caucus, Board Member
– National Trial Lawyers, Top 40 Under 40, Executive Board Member
– National Trial Lawyers, Women’s Leadership Forum, Founder and Co-Chair
– Palm Beach County Justice Association, Member
– Florida Association for Women Lawyers, Palm Beach County, Committee Chair

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
– Constructing the Building Blocks of Victory in Trial, Laying the Foundation and Establishing Predicate: Fundamental Steps and Strategies to Get Exhibits & Other Evidence Admitted, Connectionology, 2020
– Women’s Leadership Forum, National Trial Lawyer’s Summit, 2020
– Handling TBI Cases – A Checklist to Avoid Pitfalls, Florida Justice Association’s Workhorse Seminar, 2020
– A Primer for Handling Construction Related Accidents, Connectionology, 2020
– Deposing The Defense Medical Examiner, Winning at Trial and Maximizing Settlements, 2019
– Economic Damages, Personal Injury for A to Z, 2017
– Ethical Issues in Settlement Negotiations, Auto Injuries: Advanced Plaintiff Strategies, 2015
– Maximizing Pain and Suffering and Loss of Earnings, Auto Injuries: Advanced Plaintiff Strategies, 2015

Anne McDermott has worked as a senior trial consultant with Harvey Moore for more than a decade. Based in Los Angeles, her specialty is bringing the human side of legal cases to life on video, as scriptwriter, producer and voice-over narrator.

After graduating from Syracuse University, Anne began a career as a journalist, anchoring and reporting for NBC and CBS affiliates before becoming a correspondent for CNN. Anne’s 20+ years with the network were distinguished by her flair for story-telling, her communication and research expertise, but especially her empathy for injured people and skill in connecting with them. Anne reported news and feature stories throughout the U.S., Mexico and Central America. Her more notable broadcast work includes the O.J. Simpson trial, the Columbine school shooting, plane crashes, earthquakes and other natural disasters, plus the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Anne was a member of the team that shared an Emmy for CNN’s 9/11 coverage.

More recently, Anne also served as content editor for a travel site, providing readers with a front row seat to new experiences and new ways of thinking, much as is done in the courtroom. The application of all of Anne’s skills to legal cases helps clients resolve their disputes short of trial, which dovetails perfectly with Anne’s passion: creating powerful, persuasive videos for people who’ve been wronged; people who deserve a little justice.

Bernard (Biff) Pettingill, former professor of economics at the Florida Institute of Technology and Palm Beach Atlantic University, has also taught for many years at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette and as an associate professor at Louisiana State University Medical School. Dr. Pettingill has been a forensic economist since 1985; he has testified by deposition or trial in over 1500 cases in 29 states plus the US Virgin Islands.

Graduate Manchester University, Manchester, England, January 1977
Ph.D. – Economics, Department of Economics and Social Administration.
Dissertation: “Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Treatment of Arthritis – A Comparison of Five Hospitals.”
Graduate Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 1973
MPH-Master Public Health, Department of Health Economics and Medical Care Administration.
Graduate Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 1971 and June 1969; MBA – Economics, BBA — Business Administration

Gary R. Gober is a Board Certified Civil Trial Specialist and an AV-rated trial attorney who has practiced in Nashville, Tennessee for over 50 years. In that time he has presented hundreds of lectures on trial advocacy in over 46 States, Canada and the Bahamas. He is nationally recognized as one of the premier teachers of trial advocacy in America by his peers.

He has been a recipient of the W. McKinley Smiley Award of the Southern Trial Lawyers Association for his teaching skills. He has received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association (2013) based on his inspirational teaching of trial lawyers nationally. In 2016 he produced and moderated the Music City Seminar on Traumatic Brain Injury for the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association, which was attended by trial attorneys and medical experts from around the nation. He has taught on the educational program of the Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group on which Board he serves. He moderated and presented on traumatic brain injury at the Summit of the National Trial Lawyers Association in South Beach, Fla. in February 2018. He lectured at the Workhorse Seminar of the Florida Justice Association in March 2018 on the subject of advocacy in traumatic brain injury cases.

In 2001, while President of the Melvin M. Belli Society Gary R. Gober produced, presented and moderated the annual Belli Seminar in Chicago, IL. He has lectured at that Seminar frequently over the past 25 years and is a recipient of the Mel Award of the Belli Society (2006) in recognition of his excellence in advocacy and teaching.

Gary R. Gober is a published author on trial advocacy, having contributed articles to Trial Magazine (American Association for Justice) and the magazine of the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association. He is a contributor to “Litigating Tort Cases”, published by Thompson Reuters Co. on behalf of the American Association for Justice.

Kelly L. Centofanti is the managing partner of Centofanti Law, S.C. Her practice focuses on personal injury litigation on the plaintiff’s side. She handles cases involving medical, legal and other professional negligence, nursing home neglect and abuse, insurance bad faith, motor vehicle and boating accidents and premises liability.

She has lectured at numerous seminars and CLE programs on a variety of substantive and procedural topics throughout Wisconsin. Kelly has spoken at Marquette University Law School and the University of Wisconsin Law School, including several different Trial Skills courses. She has also served on the faculty of five National College of Advocacy Trial Skills Colleges (Essentials, Houston; Medical Malpractice, Safety Harbor; Depositions, Atlanta; Direct and Cross Examination, Phoenix and Knoxville), has spoken at two AAJ National Conventions, and was a speaker at the 2002 AAJ “Weekend of the Stars” in New York City.

Kelly addressed a national audience of trial lawyers on the topic of medical malpractice at a special AAJ symposium in Washington D.C. in June 2004 and national audiences at two-day seminars on successfully handling nursing home cases, one in Las Vegas in September of 2004 and the other in Albuquerque in September of 2005. Kelly also addressed a national audience on the importance of focus groups at a NJ-AAJ seminar in Atlantic City in April of 2007, and on deposing difficult witnesses in Scottsdale in January of 2016.

Ms. Centofanti edits a chapter in the State Bar book, The Law of Damages in Wisconsin.

Kelly has served as Chair of numerous State Bar Committees and has been involved in many other committees and boards. She has served as President of the Milwaukee Bar Association, President of the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Board of Trial Attorneys (ABOTA), Secretary of the State Bar of Wisconsin, President of the Association for Women Lawyers, and chair of the MBA Litigation, Civil Bench/Bar, and Judicial Selection committees. She was named one of the Top Twenty Women in the Law for 2005 by the Wisconsin Law Journal. She was a long-time member of the Marquette University Law Alumni Board, including a term as President.

She received her undergraduate degree from Marquette University and was graduated in 1990 from the Marquette University Law School, Magna cum Laude.

Todd Romano is an attorney at the law firm of Florida Auto Law in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he maintains a practice in the areas of Personal Injury/Wrongful Death, Interstate/Intrastate Trucking and Bus Litigation, Commercial Motor Vehicle Crashes, Motor Vehicle Crash Claims, Pedestrian Injury Claims, Vehicle and Truck Burn/Explosion Injury Litigation, and Motor Vehicle Product Liability Litigation.

Mr. Romano received his B.A. degree in Sociology from the University of Iowa in May of 1995. Mr. Romano then enrolled in post-graduate studies in Psychology while completing his final season as a scholarship student-athlete (place-kicker and punter) on the Iowa Football Team, where he played for the legendary college football coach, Hayden Fry, and he ended his career after the 1995 season in 18th place on the all-time Iowa Hawkeyes scoring list as of his final game. Mr. Romano then enrolled at the Stetson University College of Law in the fall of 1996, and he received his J.D. degree from Stetson in May of 1999. After earning a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps during the summer of 1998, Mr. Romano then began his active duty tour in the U.S. Marine Corps in the fall of 1999.

Upon successful completion of the U.S. Marine Corps’ Basic Officer Course in Quantico, Virginia in June of 2000, and the Naval Justice School in Newport, Rhode Island in October of 2000, Mr. Romano reported to his duty station at Camp Pendleton, California, where he served as a Judge Advocate. Mr. Romano began his Marine Corps legal career as a Civil Law Attorney, where he conducted and oversaw criminal and civil investigations, drafted policy and opinion letters on government ethics and standards of conduct, and conducted legal review of requests for information under the Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act.

Mr. Romano was then appointed as the Head of the Claims and Investigations Section of the Civil Law Office, where he conducted, reviewed and oversaw various criminal and civil investigations, as well as claims brought by and against the United States and the U.S. Marine Corps under various Federal Claims Acts, including the Federal Tort Claims Act. Mr. Romano was then designated to serve as a Trial Counsel (prosecutor) where he prosecuted a wide variety of over 120 criminal cases under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Upon receiving an honorable discharge from the U.S. Marine Corps on July 1, 2003, Mr. Romano returned to Florida and joined Romano, Eriksen & Cronin, which became Romano Law Group in May of 2007.

Mr. Romano is a member of the American Association for Justice (formerly ATLA), and he is an EAGLE member of The Florida Justice Association (formerly The Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers). Mr. Romano is also a member of the Southern Trial Lawyers Association, the Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America (former President), The National Trial Lawyers where he served as the president of the organization’s Top 40 Under 40 and is honored as one of the organization’s Top 10 Trucking Attorneys, and the Palm Beach County Justice Association. He is admitted to the Florida Bar, the U.S. District Courts for the Middle District and the Southern District of Florida, and to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mr. Romano lives in Royal Palm Beach with his wife, Sarah, their daughters, Ava and Mae and their son, Will.

Education, Training and Experience
• University of Iowa, B.A. degree in sociology, May 1995
• Stetson University College of Law, J.D. degree, May 1999
• Naval Justice School, October 2000
• United States Marine Corps, Active Duty, 1999 – 2003
Bar Admissions

• Florida Bar, 1999
• Navy/Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals, 2000 – 2007
• Supreme Court of the United States of America, June 2005
• U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, May 2006
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, October 2007
Professional Memberships
• American Association of Justice
• Florida Justice Association, EAGLE member
• Southern Trial Lawyers Association
• Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America (President, 2012)
• Palm Beach County Justice Association
• The National Trial Lawyers (former president Top 40 Under 40; Listed as a Top 10 Trucking Attorney)

Dr. Romano is the founder and director of Scope Medical PLLC based in Davidson, NC, a medical-legal consulting firm which specializes in litigation support and providing medical education services relevant to the practice of law.

He is a former United States Naval Undersea Medical Officer, Naval Diving Medical Officer and certified U.S. Navy Diver. His active duty service included internship training in internal medicine and primary care medical practice in support of joint service Department of Defense undersea and diving operations and training. He delivered over 300 hours of didactic and hands-on instruction to enlisted medical personnel and military physicians, directed and oversaw numerous emergency treatments of diving-related injuries, and served as the medical officer supporting an undersea saturation diving research mission at Aquarius Reef Base off of the Florida Keys.

Following an honorable discharge from active duty, he completed his Anatomic and Clinical Pathology residency as well as fellowship training in Dermatopathology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. During his fellowship, he simultaneously served as a moonlighting primary care provider within the Mayo Clinic Health System. He is board certified in Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology and Dermatopathology. He is currently in active practice in the Charlotte, NC metropolitan region, practicing Anatomic and Clinical Pathology with a subspecialty focus in Dermatopathology. He has served as the primary author on numerous peer-reviewed manuscripts and was awarded top honors for his presentation at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the International Society of Dermatopathology. He is a member of the American Medical Association, a Fellow of the College of American Pathologists and serves as a guest reviewer for the American Journal of Dermatopathology.