Eltia I. Montano Galarza
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Ms. Montano Galarza is a partner in the firm's Litigation Defense Group. Her practice is composed of civil litigation, medical malpractice, Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA) defense and public entity litigation. She is fluent in Spanish.

Eltia holds a bachelor of science degree from Rutgers University's Newark College of Arts and Sciences and a Juris Doctorate from Rutgers University School of Law - Newark. While in law school, Eltia served as a judicial intern to the Honorable John J. Hughes, U.S.M.J., and the Honorable Virginia Long, J.A.D., and worked as a law clerk at Gordon & Gordon, P.C., of West Orange, N.J. She also served as a legal research and writing instructor.

Eltia served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Alvin Weiss, A.J.S.C. She is a graduate of the Seton Hall University School of Law Alumni Inn of Court.

Prior to joining Florio Perrucci Steinhardt & Fader, Eltia was an associate with the Piscataway, N.J., office of Florio & Perrucci, P.C. and with the New York and New Jersey offices of Fischbein Badillo Wagner Harding, handling a variety of litigation matters, principally involving general commercial litigation, at both the federal and state levels. Eltia was also with Sellar Richardson, P.C., of Roseland, N.J., concentrating in insurance defense litigation. She is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, the Statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey and the League of United Latin American Citizens.

egalarza@florioperrucci.com

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