Our Firm
Who We Are
LCBF was formed in 1995 by a team of attorneys who at the time already shared a deep well of trial experience. What our founders did with their mastery of trial strategy has profoundly shaped LCBF’s culture and driven its rise. In short, they prioritized passing that knowledge on to every ensuing generation of LCBF attorneys, ensuring their exceptionalism, and the firm’s success. To date, our members have tried hundreds of cases to verdict.
It is this culture of continued exceptionalism that has allowed us to form enduring relationships with our clients, many of whom have remained with the firm since its inception.
Our Approach
Firms often tout their ability to “think outside the box” when case-planning for their clients. At LCBF, we don’t start with a box to begin with.
Our approach is more straightforward. With every case, we bring to bear three key LCBF assets: our deep litigation and trial experience, our relentless innovation, and our unusually high degree of collaboration—both among our attorneys and with clients.
We work this way with new clients and clients we’ve partnered with since our inception.
Using this proven three-pronged strategy, we move forward with the best possible plan, but always with contingency plans at the ready, should circumstances change.
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Leadership
John A. Bonventre
Managing Member
Amanda Celentano
Chief Financial Officer
Amanda began with the firm as Director of Finance in 2021 and now serves as the Chief Financial Officer. Amanda brings over fifteen years of accounting and financial management experience to the firm’s financial operations, including accounting, treasury management, pricing, and billing. Amanda’s leadership and expertise provides our clients with seamless management of their multifaceted billing and invoicing requirements.
Salvatore Gallucio
Chief Technology Officer
Salvatore has served the firm’s technological, information processing, and cyber security needs for almost three decades. He began with the firm as a Director and now serves as Chief Technology Officer. In that capacity, he supports the technology, information, risk management, process improvement, change management and technical needs of the firm. His talent and experience provides clients effective and efficient solutions to their project management needs.
Charlie Clark
Director of HR & Benefits
In his role as Director of HR & Benefits, Charlie partners with firm leadership to align HR initiatives with overarching business strategies, ensuring optimal service delivery across all areas of firm administration. He is an integral part of development and implementation of initiatives that allow the firm to recruit, retain, and develop the legal and personnel talent capable of providing the high caliber of representation our clients expect.
Roy Babel
Lead Paralegal, NY
Rosemarie Cangiarella
Regional Office Manager
Rosemarie has been a part of LCBF since its founding. She progressed from a role in the word processing pool and continued to grow with the firm into the role of New Jersey Secretarial Manager and now Regional Office Manager. In this position, Rosemarie utilizes her decades of legal and industry knowledge to ensure the efficient and productive operations of the firm across its four offices, providing attorneys and staff the resources necessary to maximize efficient and quality representation to clients.
Karen Green-Malos
Lead Paralegal, PA
Karen has served the firm and its clients as a litigation paralegal since 2019. Karen now additionally provides management, guidance and support to paralegals, associates, and staff in her current role as Lead Paralegal of the Pennsylvania Office. In this capacity, she assists in the implementation of workflow and case management protocols to ensure quality representation to all clients.
Talisha Hunt
Lead Paralegal, NJ
Talisha has served the firm and its clients as a litigation paralegal for almost two decades. Talisha provides insight and effective management of case needs and defense strategy in her current role as Lead Paralegal of the New Jersey Office. In this capacity, she assists in the development of workflow protocols and case management protocols to ensure exceptionalism within the entire paralegal group.
Allison Jackson
Accounting Manager
Andrew Keaveney
Member Manager -Paralegals, NY
Lauren McGovern
Member Manager -Paralegals, PA/DE
Vincent Mehnert
Member Manager -Associate Development
Edward Scholler
Network Operations Manager
Edward began with the firm as a paralegal, then transitioned to IT technician in 2006. Edward now serves the firm as Network Operations Manager, where he oversees the firm’s technical infrastructure and ensures the firm’s computer networks are secure, reliable, and efficient to serve the needs of the firm and our clients.
