Still relatively early in his career, 44-year-old Christopher DiGirolamo has emerged as one of northern New Jersey's top young trial attorneys. With a tenacity and fortitude that echoes to an earlier era, DiGirolamo has already established a reputation as an aggressive litigator who's ready to "go to the mat," peers say, for his clients, often victims of serious automobile, construction and premises accidents. Recently he was co-counsel on one of the highest-profile construction-accident cases in the nation, the 2003 collapse of the Tropicana Casino parking garage.

Growing up in Woodcliff Lake in northern Bergen County, DiGirolamo showed early signs of his trademark determination. He earned a track scholarship to Fordham; but, injured in a car accident just before starting college, was unable to compete. So he taught himself lacrosse, made the team, and retained his scholarship. A lifelong musician and drummer ("My dad set the example: He was a jazz accordionist who played with Miles Davis and other greats.") DiGirolamo possessed a sense of logic and a performer's poise that has served him well in the legal world.

He joined renowned trial attorney Michael Maggiano in 1992 – after completing a state clerkship with The Hon. Ralph Polito; "This is the first and only job in the law I've ever had," and early on "facing Michael with our work was the best training a young lawyer could ever have."

By 1999, already the veteran of scores of personal-injury verdicts and settlements, DiGirolamo was named Managing Partner, and was fast becoming a name in his own right. He runs the firm's general personal injury and workers' compensation department today.

Along the way he won two of the largest Personal Injury Protection (PIP) awards in state history.

He created and was lead instructor of an 11 week course at Bergen Community College for the Division of Continuing Education, Corporate and Public Sector Training, entitled, The People's Law School", an interactive "seminar" style program where each week a different topic is discussed by specialized attorneys in the respective field.

He has been selected by his peers as a NJ Monthly Magazine "Super Lawyer" every year since 2006, and in his first year was the youngest attorney in the State of New Jersey to receive selection.

In 2011 he was selected again by a vote of his peers to be included in (201) Magazine's list of Bergen County's Top Lawyers.

DiGirolamo and his wife have two children and they live near MDL's Fort Lee office.