Meet the Team
Theresa Clark
Theresa M. Clark has 18 years of experience helping injured people and their families by trying to right the wrongs that were done to them through someone else’s negligence and wrongful acts.
Theresa Clark was selected to Super Lawyers Rising Stars as well as the Top Rated Personal Injury Attorney in Melville, NY. The designation means that she is a top-rated attorney as recognized by peers. She was selected to Rising Stars for 2021.
Prior to being the principal of the Clark Law Group, P.C., Theresa worked her way up from being a paralegal, to office manager, associate attorney, and is currently a partner in a thriving law firm. There was a turning point in her life that led to Theresa on her journey to becoming an attorney; she was involved in a terrible accident as a pedestrian 13 years ago and subsequently became a plaintiff herself.
Through this experience, she has the firsthand knowledge and offers compassion and understanding of what it takes to be a plaintiff. Theresa’s focus is on helping the injured parties and their loved ones; she devotes her time and gives personal attention to each and every one of her clients. Theresa, along with her team, has created a firm that has the experience, knowledge and is known to aggressively fight to compensate the injured parties and attempt to make them whole again from a monetary standpoint.
The Clark Law Group, P.C. litigates in both personal injury and medical malpractice cases that concentrate on failure to diagnose, diagnosis errors, doctor and hospital negligence, surgical errors, wrongful death, and brain-damaged child cases. Through the years Theresa has developed professional relationships and has access to a large network of medical experts, investigators, forensic engineers, accident reconstruction analysts, and economists.
Theresa received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Long Island University, graduating Summa Cum Laude and a Juris Doctor from the Jacob Fuchsberg Law Center of Touro College. Theresa is a member of Phi Betta Kappa, New York State Bar Association, New York State Trial Lawyers Association, Woman’s Bar Association, Suffolk Bar Association, and Queens Bar Association. She is a loving wife and she and her husband have three beautiful children. Personally, Theresa is a leader in her community and along with her family volunteer as respite workers in a homeless shelter; she is a Girl Scout leader, holds a council position to represent the youth in her community, and is a board member of the PTA at her children’s schools. Theresa prides herself in her legal knowledge and experience as well as her compassion for others, she is dedicated to clients and offers each client direct attention while still providing high-quality legal representation.
Theresa Clark was featured in the April 2018 edition of “New York State Trial Lawyers Association”. Click HERE to read the article.
William J Maniatis
Now in his 20th year of practice, William J. Maniatis (Bill to his friends and clients) is an accomplished trial lawyer who has obtained millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements for his clients over the years. Bill began his career as a criminal defense lawyer for the Legal Aid Society where he gained substantial trial experience defending individuals who could not afford to pay for their own defense. Bill’s dedication to representing the individual against the interests of big business continues to this day. As an accomplished trial attorney Bill has earned a reputation as an aggressive litigator and trial lawyer representing individuals who have been injured through the negligence of others. Bill has obtained significant jury verdicts and settlements for his clients in both the State of New York as well as in the State of New Jersey, with several of his results having been reported in the New York Verdict Search publication. An advocate for justice, Bill’s substantial efforts on behalf of his clients have resulted in significant monetary awards for the injured individuals that he has represented, including being one of less than 1% of attorneys in America with a verdict of a million dollars.
