Overview and Experience

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.

---

Admitted To Bar

• New Jersey   1991
• United States District Court of New Jersey 1991
• United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Federal Circuit 2003

Education

• B.A. magna cum laude, Montclair State University, 1988
• J.D. Seton Hall University School of Law, 1991

Areas of Concentration

Honors & Memberships

• 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

---