Ana Rita
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000-000-000Ana Rita is a Senior Associate in our Hackensack, NJ office with a focused personal injury practice. She has handled various types of personal injury matters including motor vehicle accidents, slip/trip and fall accidents, dog bite attacks, traumatic brain injuries and medical malpractice. She has successfully managed all cases from initial client intake through pre-suit investigation, initial pleadings, written discovery, motion practice, depositions, arbitrations, settlement negotiations, trials and appeals. Ana Rita prides herself in excellent client relations and communication skills and thorough case review and presentation. She is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish.
Practice Areas
- Personal Injury
- Pedestrian injuries
- Car accidents
- Bicycle accidents
- Bus accidents
- Motorcycle accident
- Wrongful death
- Construction accidents
- Truck accident
- Slip and falls
- Birth injuries
- Spinal cord injuries
- Burn injuries
- Dog Bites
Past Positions
Bar Admissions
- New jersey
- New York
Education
- Rutgers School of Law, Camden, NJ
- Rutgers Univesrity
Professional Associations
- New Jersey Association for Justice
- Essex County Bar Association
- Trial Attorneys of New Jersey
Within three years, Ana Rita received a Dual Bachelors degree in English and History from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in 2007. She received her Juris Doctorate from Rutgers Camden School of Law in 2011. Ana Rita became a member of the New Jersey Bar in 2011 and the New York Bar in 2012 and is also authorized to appear in the United States District Court, District of New Jersey.
She was previously with Starr, Gern, Davison & Rubin, P.C. initially as an Associate, and later promoted to Partner. Ana Rita specialized in personal injury matters, including complex negligence cases and medical malpractice.
Ana Rita previously served as a Panel Chair of the District VC Fee Arbitration Committee and in her capacity, helps members of the community resolve disputed attorney fee matters.
She was also previously employed with the Sekas Law Group, LLC as a Senior Associate handling Personal Injury, Commercial and Residential real estate, Complex Commercial Litigation, solely handling Commercial Loan closings for a financial institution and other matters. Prior to her employment in Englewood Cliffs, Ana Rita was employed with Wanda M. Akin & Associates, for six years, as a Senior Associate, working on a wide variety of cases including Criminal Defense, Civil litigation, Personal Injury, Family Law (Marital Disputes, Child Custody and Support issues), Employment Law, Estate Law, Landlord/Tenant Law, Contracts and solely handled the Real Estate transactions for the firm.
Over the past 14 years, Ana Rita has appeared in Federal, State and Municipal courts on both civil and criminal matters. She has trial experience with motor vehicle accidents, premises liability cases, and medical malpractice cases. Her experience includes receiving a Not-Guilty verdict after a two-week criminal jury trial in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Hudson County, Trial co-counsel in a First Degree Attempted Murder/Kidnapping trial, in Essex County and in a Murder trial in Hudson County. Ana Rita also has years of experience arguing pre-trial motions in both civil and criminal matters as well as negotiating favorable settlements and dispositions. She also has experience drafting legal briefs on behalf of New Jersey Association for Justice (NJAJ) as Amicus Curiae.
