Attorney Margeaux Cigainero, Esq. is the newest member of ThePhillyLawyers. Ms. Cigainero specializes in criminal defense litigation as well as criminal appellate work, and has defended individuals facing criminal charges for nearly ten years. Margeaux will be working in the criminal defense department of ThePhillyLawyers team.
Margeaux Cigainero was formerly a principal at a center city law firm where she focused on litigation, appeals, and PCRAs (Post Conviction Relief Act) for various criminal matters. It was in this firm where she earned her reputation as a tireless leader and fierce advocate within the Pennsylvania criminal justice system.
Prior to this, Ms. Cigainero was a senior associate attorney at a center city criminal litigation firm that specialized in criminal appellate advocacy. While daily working on appeals and PCRAs, she refined and sharpened this skill set.
In addition, she recently teamed up with Prevention Point Philadelphia to organize an ongoing project that provides legal procedural information for indigent people to more easily navigate the Philadelphia judicial system. Volunteering and outreach is also an important part of Ms. Cigainero’s work in Philadelphia.
Upon joining ThePhillyLawyers, Attorney Cigainero said:
“I am excited for this new chapter in my career and excited it begins with such a diligent, hard-working, and well-respected group.”
Attorney Cigainero is licensed to practice law throughout the state of Pennsylvania and is also Federally licensed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
In recognition of Emmett Madden’s expertise and success in personal injury and criminal defense cases, he is featured as a Super Lawyer in the most recent issue of Philadelphia Magazine (June, 2018). Every summer, the magazine highlights its annual list of the top lawyers in Pennsylvania and Delaware. Emmett has once again received the honor of being named a Philadelphia Super Lawyer. After a rigorous selection process, only the top 5% are selected as Super Lawyers.
The magazine writes as follows:
“R. Emmett Madden fights for social justice by defending those accused of crimes and representing injured individuals. For criminal defendants, he has won not guilty verdicts throughout the Delaware Valley. For injured clients, he has obtained maximum recoveries for victims of vehicle accidents, nursing home negligence, insurance abuse and building collapses, including Philadelphia’s recent record settlement of $227 million in the Salvation Army Building Collapse. Emmett is also proud of his work on behalf of the poor and disenfranchised as a volunteer at Ayuda Christian Legal Clinic in North Philadelphia and serves as a part-time Public Defender in Montgomery County.”
From the Super Lawyers website:
“Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. This selection process includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations.”
To view Emmett’s profile on Super Lawyers, please visit here.
ThePhillyLawyers is honored to receive this award once again and we look forward to continue serving those most in need.
Last Saturday in Philadelphia, twenty pounds of cocaine were seized by customs at the Philadelphia International Airport. By any account, this is a very large amount of cocaine. In this situation, the cocaine does not appear to have been taken from any single person, but rather from bags found in the cargo hold.
This raises the important question as to what to do when you are searched by customs officials. We must understand that our regular constitutional rights and freedom from being searched do not apply in an airport setting. No one has a constitutional right to board an airplane and therefore one must comply with the safety standards. Obviously, the best way not to be stopped with contraband when coming on or off an airplane is to make sure that one never has contraband. Sometimes, however, people mistakenly leave certain things in their luggage. (more…)
Recently, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that an inordinate amount of infections were contracted by patients of open-heart surgery at two local hospitals.
In the article, Penn State Hershey Medical Center admitted that they were contacting over 2,300 patients who they feared could be exposed to infections during open-heart surgery. It is believed that the infections were caused by circulating water being aerosolized through an exhaust vent of heater coils used on the bypass machine during surgery. (more…)
A school bus accident reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer raises the important question of who is responsible when passengers on a school bus are injured. The article titled “Driver in fatal Lehigh U-team bus Crash Identified”, speculates that a driver fleeing the police after a traffic stop caused the accident. Even in a situation where the accident was caused by the criminal conduct of another, there is still the ability to recover financially for injuries. Too often, those engaged in criminal activity are driving an uninsured or stolen motor vehicle. In this situation, the passengers of the school bus and the driver will contact their own Under-Insured Motorist Coverage. (more…)
A recent editorial in the New York Times discusses the important topic of criminal records and their effect on people’s ability to work and reintegrate in society. In this age of hyper vigilance and excess information, employers more and more are using background checks as an initial way of weeding out potential employees. We have gotten to a situation where any individual with a criminal background is essentially precluded from ever holding employment. This is obviously a ridiculous result. This is not limited to restrictions making sense, such as keeping dangerous people out of schools, but extends to every area and profession. (more…)
