CHERRY HILL, N.J., May 5, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Robert M. Silverman, founding partner of the lemon law and consumer advocacy firm of Kimmel & Silverman, and New Jersey Managing Attorney Jacqueline Herritt have been named 2005 New Jersey Super Lawyers in a recent study by Law & Politics Magazine. The findings were published in the May 2005 edition of New Jersey Monthly.
More than 20,000 N.J. attorneys were asked to vote for the most effective attorneys they have personally observed in action, with the top vote getters being named Super Lawyers. Only five percent of all attorneys statewide received this honor. Silverman and Herritt were recognized for building the state's first full-service lemon law firm and assisting more than 30,000 distressed drivers across the tri-state region with cost-free legal representation. Kimmel & Silverman attorneys argue in Courts in all counties throughout Southern, Central and Northern New Jersey.
Kimmel and Silverman made headlines this year when they successfully appealed a decision Honda received by a Camden County Superior Court, which limited warranty rights for New Jersey lessees. The firm also recently scored a major victory against Daimler Chrysler in Hudson County Superior Court, where a jury awarded their client a full buyback and $30,000 in additional damages for problems he experienced with his 2001 Dodge Durango. The firm successfully handles over 1,500 lemon law and breach of warranty cases in New Jersey annually.
In the last 14 years, the firm has grown to include six full-service offices across New Jersey, Eastern and Western Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Delaware with a team of 16 attorneys, five certified automotive experts and a support staff of over 30 employees. The firm's attorneys have also successfully represented consumers against several automotive manufacturers in class action suits, and have expanded their practice to include automotive dealer fraud claims and unfair trade practice litigation.
This is the most recent honor for Kimmel and Silverman. Mr. Silverman, along with his partner, PA and NY attorney Craig Thor Kimmel, was also recognized as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer in 2004 and their firm is also the only lemon law firm in the nation to be honored by the American Bar Association (Meritorious Recognition, Louis M. Brown 2002 Legal Access Competition) Kimmel & Silverman has full-service offices in Ambler, PA; Pittsburgh, PA; Norwell, MA; Owings Mills, MD; Wilmington, DE; and Cherry Hill, NJ. For more information about the firm and the services they provide, please call 1-800-LEMON-LAW (1-800-536-6652) or visit the firm's website at http://www.lemonlaw.com