Hamilton Padgett RinaldiA New Jersey Limited Liability Partnership
About

Thomas F. Rinaldi.

I played baseball at Villanova and UMBC. Then I went to law school.

A partner of Hamilton & Padgett, LLC in Georgia, and the founding and managing partner of Hamilton Padgett Rinaldi, LLP in New Jersey.

I've spent the last decade representing people who were hurt because somebody else was careless. In that time I've recovered more than $50 million for my clients.

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Background

Who you are
hiring.

Thomas Rinaldi, Esq.

Most of my clients called me on the worst week of their life.

That's the part nobody explains about this work. By the time someone reaches me they're already hurt, already behind on something, and already getting phone calls from an adjuster who sounds friendly. My job is to take that off their plate so they can go do the one thing that actually matters, which is getting better.

You get my cell phone number. Not a case manager's, not an intake line. Mine. I'll tell you what your case is actually worth rather than what you want to hear, and I'll tell you early. If I think an offer is bad, I'll say so. If I think it's fair, I'll say that too, even when it's less than you hoped.

You will always know where your case stands. If it goes quiet, it's because we're waiting on records, and I'll tell you that rather than leaving you wondering.

The firms

I am a partner of Hamilton & Padgett, LLC in Savannah and Brunswick, Georgia. Georgia matters are handled through that firm.

I am the founding and managing partner of Hamilton Padgett Rinaldi, LLP in Middletown, New Jersey, which Hamilton & Padgett and I opened together. New Jersey matters are handled through that firm.

Dustin W. Hamilton and Joseph R. Padgett are admitted in Georgia only.

Admissions

  • New Jersey, 2010
  • New York, 2011
  • Georgia, 2024
  • U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey

Education

  • Seton Hall University School of Law, J.D., cum laude
  • University of Maryland Baltimore County, B.S., Financial Economics

Focus

  • Tractor-trailer and commercial vehicle collisions
  • Motor vehicle collisions
  • Medical malpractice
  • Premises liability and slip and fall
  • Serious and catastrophic injury
  • Wrongful death

Recognition

  • Super Lawyers, 2026
  • National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40, eight consecutive years

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Three states, one corridor

Top of I-95
and the bottom.

New Jersey sits near the top of the I-95 corridor. Savannah sits near the bottom. A truck that leaves the Port of Savannah is in New Jersey the next day.

I'm admitted in Georgia, New Jersey and New York, which means a case that starts in one state and ends in another doesn't have to change hands. That matters most in trucking, where the driver, the carrier, the insurer and the crash are often in four different places.

It also means our firms are not guessing about the law in either place. Hamilton & Padgett has tried and resolved cases in Georgia for years, and I have done the same in New Jersey since 2010.

Selected decisions

On the record.

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

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