– Social Security
Email:
tgiordano@pondlehocky.com
Education
Rutgers University School of Law – Camden (J.D. 2004)
Member
- National Organization of Social Security Claimant’s Representative (NOSSCR)
- National Association of Disability Representatives (NADR)
- Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations
- Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Associations
- Board of Directors for Epilepsy Foundation of Eastern Pennsylvania
Thomas J. Giordano Jr., currently heads the Social Security Disability department, where he focuses his practice exclusively on obtaining Social Security Disability benefits for disabled individuals. Mr. Giordano is admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. He earned his undergraduate degree, cum laude, in Communications Studies from Towson University in Maryland. He received his law degree from Rutgers University School of Law – Camden. He is an active member of the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations, the Pennsylvania Association for Justice and the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association. He is currently serving on the Board of Directors for the Epilepsy Foundation of Eastern Pennsylvania and is a sustaining member of the National Organization of Social Security Claimant’s Representatives (NOSSCR).
Following law school, Mr. Giordano was an Associate with a large Philadelphia defense firm where he represented self-insured and commercial insured businesses in a wide variety of industries, as well as third party administrators throughout Pennsylvania. He also served as a legal intern for the Philadelphia District Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Mr. Giordano has been named to the Super Lawyers® Rising stars list since 2006, an honor only designated to 2.5% of attorneys in Pennsylvania.
Mr. Giordano has represented individuals before Administrative Law Judges throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. He has been invited by labor and disability organizations and physicians throughout the tri-state area to lecture on Social Security Disability law. Through lectures and seminars, Mr. Giordano educates Union Members and employees throughout the region on their rights to Social Security Disability Benefits.
