Ms. DePaolo is indispensible to a civil litigation practice. She prepares appellate briefs and motions before the New Jersey Supreme Court and the Appellate Division. She also drafts and reviews contracts and corporate documents for individual and business clients. Ms. DePaolo was a judicial law clerk to the Hon. Peter Ciolino, A.J.S.C. (retired) former Assignment Judge of Bergen County. She has been at Cohn Lifland Pearlman Herrmann & Knopf LLP since 1996.

Ms. DePaolo is admitted to the New Jersey and New York Bars. She is also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Ms. DePaolo is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association and the Bergen County Bar Association.

Ms. DePaolo co-authored the chapter on medical malpractice with Barry A. Knopf in LexisNexis Practice Guide New Jersey Personal Injury Litigation, 2007 edition by Mathew Bender/ Lexis-Nexis. Ms. DePaolo also co-authored "Better Left 'Forgotten' - The Future is Uncertain for False Memory Litigation," Medical Malpractice Law & Strategy Vol. XIV, No. 7, p. 1, May 1997, with Albert L. Cohn.

Ms. DePaolo’s J.D. was awarded from Rutgers University School of Law, Newark. She received her B.A. with honors from Rutgers University Rutgers College where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Selected Published Cases

• Naviant Marketing Solutions, Inc. v. Larry Tucker, Inc., 339 F.3d 180 (3d Cir. 2003) (reversing order imposing sanctions for failure to provide discovery)
• Dupree v. City of Clifton, 351 N.J. Super. 237 (App. Div. 2002), aff'd, 175 N.J. 449 (2003) (affirming summary judgment for church in personal injury action)
• In re Villone, 361 N.J. Super. 478 (App. Div. 2003) (affirming decision that will and trust were procured by undue influence)
• Noorily v. Thomas & Betts Corp., 188 F.3d 153 (3d Cir. 1999), cert. denied, 529 U.S. 1053 (2000) (reversing ERISA award for severance benefits)
• VanderWeert v. VanderWeert, 304 N.J. Super. 339 (App. Div. 1997) (denying intervention in divorce proceeding)