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Michael L. Saile, Jr., Esq.

Michael L. Saile, Jr., Esq. grew up in lower Bucks County, Pennsylvania and graduated from Council Rock High School.  While in high school, Mr. Saile played baseball and was a varsity member of Council Rock’s wrestling team in his junior and senior years.  Also during high school, Mr. Saile attained the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest rank in Scouting, a designation attained by less than 1% of all Scouts.

Mr. Saile then attended the University of Delaware where he attained a bachelor’s degree in Accounting.  While in college Mr. Saile was a member of the social fraternity of Pi Kappa Alpha.  After college, Mr. Saile immediately began law school at Widener University School of Law, where he was frequently named to the Dean’s List and was an active member on the Law School’s trial team.   Mr. Saile graduated from law school with honors and received several Certificates of Achievement for obtaining the highest grade in the class.  During law school Mr. Saile clerked for a law firm in Wilmington, Delaware.

After law school, Mr. Saile successfully passed both the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bar examinations and began practicing personal injury law for a law office in Vineland, New Jersey.  While working in New Jersey, Mr. Saile personally handled over 100 personal injury cases (at a time) and numerous municipal court matters, including driving under the influence cases.  Mr. Saile participated in several jury trials and appealed a case to the NJ Supreme Court, which was eventually decided in his client’s favor.  This published case improved NJ law for tens of thousands of people injured in New Jersey car accidents. 

After gaining significant experience, Mike merged practices with his father, Michael, Sr. (although he doesn’t enjoy being called “Senior”) in 2004 and together they formed Saile & Saile LLP.  While at Saile & Saile LLP, Mike made some changes to the way he was previously practicing law.  Mike wanted to improve customer service at his new firm.  At his prior firm, Mike was assigned so many cases that he was not able to form a relationship with his clients or give them the attention and service that they deserved.

At Saile & Saile LLP, Mike initiated case acceptance guidelines.  As a result, Mr. Saile only takes on a small number of cases at a time and only works for clients that want to team with us to get the best possible result.  Mike does not overextend himself in order to increase his income.  Rather, he believes that attention to case details, customer service, communication and a strong relationship with his clients benefit his clients and Saile & Saile LLP in the long term.

In addition, Mr. Saile believes that the standard contingent fee agreement is not fair to personal injury victims.  Contingent fee agreements are agreements whereby the lawyer does not get paid unless there is a case recovery.  You hear about them on TV all the time.  Contingent fees are based on a percentage of the recovery.  Contingent legal fees allow innocent accident victims, with little or no funds, the ability to obtain quality legal representation. 

In New Jersey, contingent fees are set by law and cannot be changed.  In Pennsylvania, no law limits the percentage that a personal injury lawyer can charge his or her clients.  In Pennsylvania, an injury lawyer typically charges anywhere from 1/3 up to 1/2 of the case recovery.   Mr. Saile’s problem with the standard contingent fee agreement is that the lawyer gets a windfall if the case settles early.  This is because the earlier a personal injury case settles, the less work a lawyer had to perform on the case.  This is not fair to clients.  Mr. Saile developed the “Saile & Saile LLP Client First Fee Agreement” whereby, if his client’s personal injury case settles early, his client gets a discounted legal fee.  This way the lawyer gets paid for the work he or she actually does on the case.  This is fair!

Besides his busy practice of law, Mike enjoys spending time with his family, making homemade wine (…ask him for a bottle), exercising, golfing, fishing, and winter sports.  Mike enjoys both the New Jersey and Delaware beaches during the summer months.

Mike has been recently named as a “Rising Star-Super Lawyer” by Thompson Legal.  This means that his colleagues and peers have recognized him as one of the top up-and-coming attorneys (under 40 years of age) in Pennsylvania.  This designation is only given to 2.5% of attorneys in Pennsylvania.

Mike is constantly keeping up on Pennsylvania and New Jersey personal injury law.

Mr. Saile is the author of the PA–NJ Car Accident Lawyer Blog.  In addition, Mr. Saile recently published a consumer oriented book titled “How to Maximize Your Pennsylvania Car Accident Case before an Insurance Company Takes Advantage of You.”  This guidebook answers many common questions and concerns of injured car accident victims. 

To schedule a free legal consultation for your Pennsylvania or New Jersey personal injury, please provide us with your contact information.

Michael J. Saile, Esq.

Michael J. Saile has been practicing law in the Delaware Valley for over thirty years and has operated his own successful practice for more than twenty years.  Mr. Saile resides in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and is a member of both the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Bars. 

Michael’s esteemed law career began with his position as a Trust Officer at a large Philadelphia bank, an institution with which he rose to the position of Vice President.  In 1989, Mr. Saile established his private practice in Newtown, Bucks County where he remains in business today.  His practice areas include complex estate planning and estate administration, tax planning, complex taxation issues, and small business taxation.

As an undergraduate, Michael J. Saile attended LaSalle University and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting.  Mr. Saile went on to receive his Juris Doctor degree from Widener University School of Law.  Following law school, Michael returned to graduate study at Temple University and earned an advanced law degree (L.L.M.) in taxation.

Mr. Saile holds the distinction of being A-V rated as a result of attorney and judge peer review ratings, which means he is the recipient of the highest ratings given by Martindale Hubble for his knowledge of the law and his ethical standards.  Moreover, Mr. Saile was selected as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” for the year 2008 and in both 2009 and 2010, he was recognized as one of “Philadelphia’s Best Lawyers”.   Michael J. Saile has been a frequent guest speaker throughout Bucks County on various estate planning topics.

 Mary Jo Brown, Legal Assistant

Legal assistant Mary Jo Brown has been a member of the Saile & Saile LLP staff since March 2006.  She works closely with Michael, Jr. and his personal injury clients, taking great pride in her daily effort to provide superior service. Mary Jo spends her days at the law firm following up and corresponding with clients, their medical providers, and all respective insurance companies involved in the injury claim process.  For those cases that have moved on to the litigation stage, Mary Jo monitors the timely flow of discovery documentation, keeps files organized and up-to-date, schedules depositions, and assists where needed in preparation for trials and mediation/arbitration hearings.  Beyond legal administrative work, Mary Jo helps Mike, Jr. compose the firm’s bi-monthly newsletter and works with Saile & Saile LLP’s marketing efforts, including their websites.

Mary Jo attended Sweet Briar College, outside of Lynchburg, Virginia, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1986 in American Studies, with a concentration in literature and history.

After college Mary Jo moved to Boston, MA for three years and then to Lebanon, NH for three years to get a taste of New England life.  During that time she worked in the staffing industry.  Missing the New Jersey shore, she moved back in 1993 and worked in the Regulatory Affairs department at Novo Nordisk in Princeton, NJ, where she met her husband. 

As a result of her husband’s opportunity to advance his career, she moved to south Florida for a couple of years. During their time in Florida, Mary Jo provided administrative support to a team of independent insurance adjusters and investigators on a part-time basis and was very active as a volunteer for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Women in Distress (a shelter for battered women), and the Humane Society of Broward County.

Another transfer awaited the couple in 1998 – a 3-year assignment in Copenhagen, Denmark.  While she was not permitted to work in Denmark, Mary Jo thoroughly enjoyed the entire experience; she traveled extensively, and learned a lot about the culture, the language, and the art of making friends in a foreign country. Mary Jo devotes much of her free time to participating in regional alumnae events for her college, volunteering at Old St. Joseph’s church in Philadelphia, attending cultural events with her husband, traveling, and spending time with friends and family.

Nancy Lesko, Legal Assistant

Nancy Lesko has been an assistant at Saile & Saile LLP since October of 2007.  Nancy currently works Wednesdays and Thursdays each week.  Besides the general duties of office administration like filing, photocopying, typing correspondence, the preparation of legal forms, answering the phone lines and scheduling appointments, her other responsibilities include preparing estate planning documents, setting up and organizing estate administration, DUI and personal injury files, assisting the attorneys in the administration process of a Decedent’s estate, following up with personal injury clients and their medical providers, as well as communicating with estate planning and administration clients and their financial advisors.

Nancy grew up in Bucks County on Shady Brook Farm in Yardley, where she often enjoyed helping her dad with the “secretarial” duties of running his business.  She graduated from Pennsbury High School and Katharine Gibbs Business School in Philadelphia where she earned a 4.0 grade point average and a Certificate in Information Processing.  Upon graduation, she was hired by Dow Jones & Company, Inc. in Princeton, New Jersey as an entry level secretary, eventually earning the position of Administrative Assistant to the Vice President of the programming division of the Dow Jones Newswires.  Nancy left her position at Dow Jones in 1999 after ten years to stay home and raise her children. 

She is married with two children and lives in Langhorne.  Nancy enjoys volunteering at her children’s schools and her church, acting as treasurer for her daughter’s soccer team, working out at the NAC, playing tennis and running, especially in Tyler State Park.

Nancy is proud to be a part of the knowledgeable, dedicated legal team at Saile & Saile LLP, where client relationships and quality service are a priority. 

Michele Parks, Legal Assistant

Michele Parks is the newest member of the Saile & Saile LLP team and has been an assistant for the past 2 ½ years.  Some of Michele’s responsibilities include preparing estate planning documents and helping with estate administration for Michael J. Saile, Esq.  She also assists Michael L. Saile, Jr., Esq. with DUI cases and personal injury cases.

Michele grew up in Arizona where she attended Northern Arizona University.   While in Arizona, Michele worked at a law firm doing lending and public law.  After moving from Arizona to Texas, Michele became very active, including being a vice president of the PTA where her children attended elementary school.

Michele is happily married and has two children, one son who is attending college and is a U.S. Marine and her other son is a senior in college.  Michele has lived in the Bucks County area for nine years.