Edward Ciarimboli

When I was fifteen, I met the love of my life. As most high school romances go, we dated, broke up, dated again, broke up again, etc. Then, at 20, the love of my life moved to Florida. I thought we were just on a break. She didn’t. She got married and had three kids. I was very single. We didn’t see or talk for twelve years. She got divorced. I had never dated anyone with children. And then she googled me, and we started talking. She came back home for a family wedding, and we decided to meet for coffee. That was seventeen years ago. I was lucky to get a do-over with the one true love of my life, and I was going to make damn sure that I didn’t lose her again. With the addition of our daughter, we now have four beautiful children that are as close as close can be, a grandson who lights up all of our lives, two dogs, two cats, and some wild animals on our farm in Northeast Pennsylvania.

Our big Italian family loves, laughs, yells, cries, eats, and drinks with more passion than words can describe. They are the people that allow me to live this crazy and amazing life of being a trial lawyer, and I am forever grateful. So how did I become a trial lawyer? That story is almost as good as my marriage.

I went to college to play basketball. At 5’10”, I was obviously a point guard and became an engineer. I got hurt, stopped playing basketball, and started bartending, where I would meet my law partner. It was the early '90s, and 'Cocktail' was all the rage, and yes, we could do all the bar tricks that Tom Cruise made famous. Being a bartender was, without a doubt, one of the best and wildest times in my life. To this day, we still have people that remember us from Market Street Station Square. As for being an engineer, I did an internship at an engineering firm and decided that I could never be an engineer. Around this time, I met a Judge through a local charity organization that I was involved in and worked at the local courthouse for the summer. I saw two trials, one criminal and one civil, and I was hooked. I loved every minute of being in trial and decided that I would go to law school. For the next two years, I went to school around the clock and graduated with a degree in Engineering and Political Science and a minor in Physics. I went to law school thinking I would go into intellectual property law. Boy, was I wrong.

By year two of law school, I realized that I hated intellectual property law. I was fortunate enough to have an amazing trial advocacy teacher and competed in moot court, which was the moment that I knew I wanted to be a trial lawyer. After three years with a local personal injury firm, my partner and I decided to open our practice. Talk about humble beginnings, we had a part-time assistant who called off more than she worked and a bookkeeper that enjoyed two martini lunches and would shove our bills in a drawer, one of which I just found the other day. Somehow we managed to grow our firm into five offices: Philadelphia, Scranton, Kingston, Honesdale, and Berwick, and we get to work with fourteen other talented lawyers who are like family to us. I am board certified in Tractor Trailer Accidents, am passionate about teaching and travel all over the country teaching lawyers deposition and trial skills, and for some reason, have a lot of zero-offer cases, which I am sure no one else can relate to. I love a good cigar and great bourbon. I make some pretty good wine with a great group of guys and every now and then enjoy an all-night poker game. For me, the law has allowed a dirt-poor kid from a coal mining town in Northeast Pennsylvania to not only travel the world but also to represent some of the most wonderful people I have ever met.