For more than five years, Steven Payne has taken the train from New Jersey to New York, he walks a few blocks and arrives at the Ginarte lawyers’ office in New York. Without knowing what challenges he will be faced with throughout the day, what is clear, is that he will have the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of people who need and are hoping for his help. 

Accidents of diverse nature, of construction, falls, each story is unique and as such he takes on. “Each case in which we work is about the life of a person and, depending on the level of damage and disability that he has suffered, can be the most important and definitive in his life, because his livelihood and that of his family are at stake,” he explains.

Steven attributes his professional success – he has won multiple millionaire cases – not only to the wide knowledge of the law that he has acquired after almost 30 years of practice, but to his kind and patient character, to listen to his clients and not to panic easily . “People come to us to help them solve a big problem in their lives and I always try to stay calm and not worry,” he says.

Since he was a teenager it was clear to him that he wanted to study law. While earning his Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University in New Jersey, fate led him to graduate as a lawyer at San Diego’s Western California Law School, a city he moved to after attending a wedding and falling in love with its beaches. During his years of study he also worked for the San Diego Prosecutor’s Office on criminal case appeals and upon graduation he joined a prestigious law firm in Los Angeles.

After about six years living in California, it was love that brought him back to his native New Jersey, where he has stayed ever since. In 2012, Steven joined the team of lawyers in Ginarte and currently runs the New York City office. “I have the fortune to work every day with excellent professionals, very efficient and effective. We like to take on the challenge of helping people who really need it. That is surely the best part of what we do.”

Steven can practice as a lawyer in three state courts: New York, California, and New Jersey. He can even practice on the Ninth Circuit Court of Federal Appeals located in San Francisco and the largest in the United States. It has almost been three decades since he began. “It has been so long since I started this journey through the legal profession and I have come to appreciate that I am in a position to help other people.

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