Paul E. Agrapidis, Esq. is a trial lawyer who represents injured people and their families in personal injury and workers’ compensation cases. He handles motor vehicle and truck accidents, construction-site accidents, slip-and-fall and other fall-down cases, dog bites, and wrongful death claims, and he also represents clients in municipal court. He has successfully resolved hundreds of accident cases, including many involving serious, life-changing injuries.
Mr. Agrapidis practices at Agrapidis & Maroules, the Jersey City and Hasbrouck Heights firm founded in 1988. He brings a second-generation commitment to the same principle that has defined the firm for nearly four decades: injured clients are not file numbers. They are people who need a lawyer willing to fight insurance companies, stay present through treatment and litigation, and pursue the full measure of compensation the law allows.
That approach is how he practices. He is an experienced litigator and a determined advocate in negotiations, motion practice, and the courtroom. He takes the time to explain the process in plain language, supports his clients through the medical and claims side of a case so they are not left to manage it alone, and remains closely involved from the first consultation through settlement or trial. Clients trust him because he treats their recovery as his responsibility.
His training was built for that kind of advocacy. Mr. Agrapidis earned his Bachelor of Science from Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management in 2014, graduating cum laude with a double major in Finance and Entrepreneurship & Emerging Enterprises. He was selected for the prestigious Renée Crown University Honors Program. That background in finance and business is not ornamental. It is useful in personal injury work, where the true value of a case often turns on lost earnings, future medical needs, and the economic damage an injury inflicts on a family or a livelihood.
He received his Juris Doctor from Seton Hall University School of Law in 2017. At Seton Hall, he spent three years on the National Moot Court Board and served as research assistant to the Board’s Director — a role reserved for students trusted with the school’s appellate advocacy program. He also trained in court, not only in the classroom: he participated in the Juvenile Justice Clinic in the Essex County Superior Court and interned with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, Civil Division, and in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.
After graduation, he served as law clerk to the Honorable James J. Guida, J.S.C., in the Bergen County Superior Court, gaining a working view of how New Jersey judges actually decide cases. He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 2018 and to the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in 2019. He is an active member of the New Jersey State Bar Association and the New Jersey Association for Justice, the state’s leading organization of attorneys who represent injured people.
Mr. Agrapidis’s standard is simple. Prepare every case as if it will be tried. Treat every client as if the outcome will shape the rest of their life. Do not stop until the recovery matches the injury.