Salim Sabbagh
Founding Partner | Sabbagh Thapar, LLC
Salim Sabbagh is a motor vehicle accidents, slip and fall and dog bites trial lawyer and founding partner at Sabbagh Thapar, LLC in Clifton, New Jersey. Admitted in New Jersey and New York.
Meet Salim
Salim F. Sabbagh is a founding partner of Sabbagh Thapar, LLC in Clifton, New Jersey, where his practice is focused solely on representing injured people in motor vehicle crashes, slip and fall incidents, dog bites and other serious personal injury accidents.
A trial lawyer in both New Jersey and New York, Sabbagh has obtained multi-million-dollar verdicts and settlements and is a life member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. He has been named a Rising Star by New Jersey Super Lawyers for 2021 through 2024 and was named to the National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys’ Top 10 Under 40 list for 2023.
Sabbagh serves the New Jersey Association for Justice as a former member of its Board of Governors and a member of its Minority Trial Lawyers Caucus, and he is a frequent speaker at its events. He is fluent in Arabic.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- Admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York
- Admitted to the U.S. District Court of New Jersey
- Judicial intern to Hon. Susan J. Steele, Civil Division, Bergen County Superior Court
- Judicial intern to Hon. Kathleen A. Sheedy, Family Division, Monmouth County Superior Court
- Fluent in Arabic
Practice Areas
- Million Dollar Advocates Forum (Life Member)
- American Association for Justice
- New Jersey Association for Justice (Minority Trial Lawyers Caucus Member; former Board of Governors)
- New Jersey State Bar Association
- Bergen County Bar Association
- Passaic County Bar Association
- Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Life Member
- Top 10 Under 40, National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys (2023)
- Rising Star, New Jersey Super Lawyers (2021-2024)
- Ones to Watch, The Best Lawyers in America (2021-2024 editions)
- New Jersey's Best Lawyers for Families, New Jersey Family (2020, 2021)
- Top 10 Personal Injury Verdicts in New Jersey, TopVerdict (2017)
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