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Michael Cavaliere, founding partner at Cavaliere & Mangiaracina

Michael Cavaliere

Founding partner · Medical malpractice & catastrophic injury

The scholar-advocate who builds malpractice cases from the medical records up.

Admitted in PennsylvaniaAdmitted in New Jersey
Biography

Families facing a medical tragedy often ask the same question on their first call: Is what happened actually malpractice, or just a bad outcome? Michael Cavaliere believes only the medical record can answer this question, and his job is to read it honestly, either way.

Mike spent the first four years of his career defending some of the largest hospitals and healthcare systems in the Philadelphia area. Because he knows exactly how healthcare corporations protect themselves, he understands how to dismantle their defenses. Today, he utilizes that insider expertise to fight for victims, retaining subspecialty physicians on day one, before a lawsuit is even filed. This rigorous, honest approach ensures the answers a family gets are grounded in medical facts rather than false hope, helping him secure over $250 million in recoveries for his clients.

Super Lawyers Rising Stars

Before co-founding the firm, Mike spent nearly a decade as an associate and partner at a leading Philadelphia personal injury firm and served as a law clerk for the New Jersey Superior Court. His relentless courtroom advocacy has earned him recognition by The Best Lawyers in America and designation as a Pennsylvania Rising Star by Super Lawyers, an honor reserved for the top 2.5 percent of attorneys in the state who are 40 or younger or practicing 10 years or less.

Mike has a lifelong history of academic excellence. He earned his law degree summa cum laude from the Thomas R. Kline School of Law and his undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Temple University. He is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and maintains active memberships in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey bar associations.

Families often ask me the same thing on the first call: is what happened actually malpractice, or just a bad outcome? The only honest answer is: let me read the record.

He means it literally. Cavaliere spent four years defending hospitals and health systems before he crossed sides, and he retains subspecialty physicians on day one, before a complaint is filed, so the answer a family gets is grounded in what the record shows rather than in what anyone hopes it shows. Malpractice or bad outcome is a question the record answers. His job is to read it honestly, either way.

Signature outcomes.

  • $22,000,000
    Individual medical-malpractice settlement.Settlement
  • $15,000,000
    Severe brain injuries, resolved after jury selection.Settlement after jury selection
  • $8,000,000
    Failure to diagnose and treat a severe infection.Settlement
  • $5,000,000
    Delayed sepsis treatment resulting in death.Settlement
  • $3,380,000
    21-month-old child, strangulated hernia, and altered records (Einstein Medical Center).Jury verdict (co-counsel), 2019

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