James Mangiaracina

A verdict is only worth what you can actually collect. James Mangiaracina brings a rare corporate skillset to personal injury law, so that when corporate defendants try to hide assets to avoid paying for the harm they caused, his clients have a lawyer who knows how to go after them.

James spent six years at large national firms representing corporations, C-suite executives, and financial institutions in high-stakes fraud, civil RICO, and asset disputes. He has handled massive corporate battles, including a high-stakes trust dispute and winning emergency relief in the Delaware Court of Chancery to protect prime Philadelphia real estate. Today, he brings that corporate playbook to the ordinary people it was originally written against.

This background matters most in the first 90 days of a personal injury case. This is when insurance carriers and corporate defendants look at a claim, evaluate their risk, and decide what a case is worth. Having sat in those exact executive evaluation rooms, James knows precisely how the defense budgets a case and how they decide to fight. He builds his clients' cases from day one to explicitly dismantle the corporate strategy.

Because of his sharp legal mind, James was named to the 2026 Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch list. He earned his law degree magna cum laude from the Temple University Beasley School of Law, where he graduated in the top tier of his class, served as staff editor of the Temple Law Review, and competed on the moot court team. He also graduated magna cum laude from the Schreyer Honors College at Penn State.

James handles cases at every stage, from initial investigation through trial and appeal, in Pennsylvania state courts and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.