For over 26 years, Joseph L. Romano, Esquire, has represented individuals with traumatic brain injured, spinal cord injured, cerebral palsy, cancer, burns, and amputations.

Mr. Romano limits his practice to the following areas: Catastrophic injury and illness; health care; medical negligence; managed care appeals; automobile accidents and injuries; worker's compensation accidents; special education benefits; sports and recreational injuries; and product defects.

In October 1997, The Wall Street Journal profiled Mr. Romano in a section on managed care and insurance, entitled 'The Patients - To their defense'. In 1996 Mr. Romano was the only attorney selected to join leading medical experts in the field of traumatic brain and spinal cord injury, in writing a treatise entitled"NEUROTRAUMA". His chapter is entitled "Medico-Legal Aspects of Head and Spinal Injury". Since 1998, he has published six editions of Legal Rights of the Catastrophically III and Injured and Their Families. Mr Romano has written over 200 articles on the medical/legal/ethical field. He has authored numerous educational brochures. His latest are Cancer, Brain Injuries, Spinal Cord Injuries: Challenging HMO Guidelines - Are Patients Powerful or Powerless? and Cancer: Your Right to Treatment - Funding and Appeals, © 1999.

Mr. Romano represented clients in all 50 states with qualified co-counsel. He is a nationally recognized guest lecturer in medical, legal, funding, and ethical issues that affect the catastrophically ill and injured and their families. He has lectured at hospitals, trauma centers, family support groups, and related organizations. He is active in numerous associations and committees, advocating for the legal rights of TBI patients, SCI patients, burn survivors, cancer survivors, cerebral palsy patients and other catastrophically ill and injured persons.