CYNTHIA A. MATHEKE learned her trial skills in the New Jersey State and Federal Public Defender’s Offices from 1974 through 1978. As a Partner with Budd, Larner, Gross, Rosenbaum, Greenberg & Sade (1978-1994) and as a former partner and now Of Counsel with the Lum firm, she concentrates her practice on the prosecution of medical malpractice actions and has tried more than 100 medical malpractice actions to verdict. She has also defended physicians and medical product manufacturers for the State of New Jersey, CNA, PPM, OUM. She has previously appeared as defense counsel in matters venued in New Jersey involving physicians affiliated with New York University Hospital and Medical Center in New York, New York. She taught trial practice at Rutgers University School of Law from 1989-2009.  In 2000, she was awarded the Civil Trial Achievement Award by the Essex County Bar Association and is a Certified Civil Trial Attorney.  In 2020 she was awarded The Gerald B. O’Connor Award for Excellence in Medical Malpractice Trials by The New Jersey Attorneys for Justice.