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© 2006 The Chiafullo Group, LLP
Bryan Chiafullo, a Case Manager at The Chiafullo Group, LLP (“the Group”), wears the fact that he is not an attorney like a badge of honor. “Everyone knows that the paralegals and support staff do all the heavy-lifting in a law firm anyway,” quips Mr. Chiafullo with a wry grin. This proverbial “heavy-lifting” has been part of Mr. Chiafullo’s daily routine as a paralegal for the entirety of his professional career. A graduate of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, Mr. Chiafullo first learned his trade as a paralegal for Henry and O’Donnell, P.C., in Virginia until his return to the Metropolitan New York City area two years later. After a tour of duty with Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C., in Manhattan, one of the largest plaintiff’s law firms in the country, Mr. Chiafullo relocated to his home State of New Jersey. There, Mr. Chiafullo worked as a paralegal for two of the state’s most prominent litigation defense firms: Orloff, Lowenbach, Stiffleman & Siegal, P.C., and Robertson, Freilich, Bruno & Cohen, LLC. Ultimately, the opportunity to work with his older brother, Christopher, and the Group was one that Mr. Chiafullo could not forego. “Lawyers are a dime a dozen,” notes Mr. Chiafullo. “But my brother Chris, his partner Whitney [Chelnik], and their co-counsel and colleagues are different. Each of their clients is treated like family, and I’m a firm believer that family is what counts most in this world.” As Case Manager for the Group, Mr. Chiafullo utilizes over ten years of litigation, real estate, trusts, estates, and taxation paralegal experience to assist the attorneys at, and co-counsel working with, the Group. Mr. Chiafullo is also a licensed New Jersey real estate agent, and acts as the primary point of contact for various real estate clients for all of their professional needs. At the end of the day, however, working with his “flesh and blood” made the change-over from the large firms to the boutique operation worthwhile. “The level of attention and care given to the clients here with the Group far surpasses anything I’ve ever experienced with the bigger NYC and North Jersey firms,” notes Mr. Chiafullo. “In the end, the client gets ‘more bang for their buck’ because the Group affords them big firm trained attorneys, paralegals and support staff – the ones who actually do a client’s work in most law firms – while cutting out some ‘do-little’ big firm figurehead who makes his money off of everyone else's sweat, all at the client's expense.” |
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