$2.25 Million Student Verdict

Charles Schalk was lead counsel and was assisted by Michael O’Grodnick in this three-week long trial in which a $2.025 million jury verdict was entered by the Superior Court of New Jersey, Essex County for an expelled dental student at UMDNJ (Vladimer v. UMDNJ, et al). This case involved the #1 student expelled from dental school who accidentally nicked a patient during clinic of his junior year. The jury found 14th Amendment Constitutional violations and awarded the largest known student verdict in the United States after a three-week trial.