Meet Edward P. Capozzi
Edward P. Capozzi is a New Jersey personal injury trial lawyer and Chair of the Personal Injury practice at Brach Eichler Injury Lawyers. He is certified as a Civil Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey and represents clients from the firm's offices across the state, including its Jersey City office at 239 Washington Street, Suite 307, and offices in Newark, Clifton, Elizabeth, New Brunswick, and Jackson.
Mr. Capozzi handles catastrophic injury cases, including automobile and trucking accidents, NJ Transit accidents, construction and work accidents, products liability, and elevator accidents. He is admitted to the New Jersey state courts and the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, and has appeared pro hac vice in New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia.
His recoveries include a $10,500,000 pre-trial settlement against the Port Authority for a driver injured by debris, a $2,250,000 settlement in 2019 for an NJ Transit bus driver who suffered spinal injuries when his bus was struck from behind in Bergen County, and a $2,150,000 settlement, as lead attorney, for the family of an elevator mechanic killed while inspecting an elevator at Galaxy Towers in Guttenberg, New Jersey. The firm's results also include a $21,800,000 recovery for a child who suffered a traumatic brain injury after being struck by a commercial vehicle.
Mr. Capozzi served as President of the New Jersey Association for Justice from 2020 to 2021 and received its President's Award in 2015. He was recognized in The Best Lawyers in America 2026 for Personal Injury Litigation (Plaintiffs), has been selected to Super Lawyers every year from 2013 through 2026, and was named to the New Jersey Super Lawyers Top 100 list in 2021, 2024, and 2025. He was inducted into the New Jersey Law Journal Personal Injury Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame in 2014 and is an Advocate Member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). He earned his J.D. from Rutgers School of Law in Camden and his B.A. from Pennsylvania State University.
Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome.