Attorneys

Joseph P. Marasco

Joseph P. Marasco is a founding partner of Marasco & Nesselbush and a lifelong resident of Rhode Island. Attorney Marasco has successfully litigated, arbitrated and mediated personal injury and medical negligence cases in all of Rhode Island’s state and federal trial courts. He has litigated hundreds of disability cases at all levels of review before the Social Security Administration, the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review, the Appeals Council, and the United States District Court. Attorney Marasco is an active member of the American and Rhode Island Associations for Justice. He is a “sustaining member” of the national Organization of Social Security Claimants’ representatives.

Attorney Marasco is admitted to practice in Rhode Island and the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island. Attorney Marasco has received recent accolades for a 1.5 million dollar award for having successfully litigated a wrongful death claim stemming from an automobile accident. He has also received notoriety for his trial advocacy which resulted in a precedent setting favorable plaintiff’s verdict and an award of $819,000 in a medical malpractice case.

Attorney Marasco is a 1986 graduate of the University of Rhode Island, where he served with distinction as President of the Student Senate/Student Body, and a 1991 graduate of Suffolk University School of Law, where he received awards for professional ethics and trial advocacy.

Donna M. Nesselbush

Donna M. Nesselbush is a founding partner of Marasco & Nesselbush. Attorney Nesselbush has dedicated her legal career to representing Social Security disability claimants at all levels of review before the Social Security Administration, the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review, the Appeals Council, and the United States District Court. Together with her law partner, she is the founder and chair of the Rhode Island Bar Association’s Social Security Disability Committee.

Amongst her many accomplishments is a victory in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit resulting in an award of Social Security disability benefits on behalf of a deserving client. Attorney Nesselbush has lectured and written extensively on the topic of Social Security disability law. She is an active member of the American and Rhode Island Associations for Justice. She is a “sustaining member” of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives.

Attorney Nesselbush is admitted to practice in Rhode Island, in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island, and in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She is a 1984 graduate of Brown University, where she received the Sarah Doyle Prize “for having made a significant contribution to women on campus and in the community,” and she graduated cum laude from Suffolk University School of Law, where she was awarded the Leo J. Wyman Award for having “contributed most to advancing the civic and professional responsibilities of a lawyer.” Since 2004, Attorney Nesselbush has served as a Municipal Court Judge for the City of Pawtucket..

Tanya J. Garrian

Tanya J. Garrian has been an Associate Attorney with Marasco & Nesselbush since 2001. Attorney Garrian is the Managing Associate of Marasco & Nesselbush’s Social Security practice, and she has dedicated her legal career to representing Social Security disability claimants at all levels of review before the Social Security Administration, the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review, the Appeals Council, and the United States District Court.

She is admitted to the practice of law in Rhode Island, in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island and in Massachusetts. Attorney Garrian is a member of the Rhode Island Bar Association’s Social Security Disability Committee as well as of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives. She holds degrees from Wesleyan University, Roger Williams University School of Law (Cum Laude), and Boston University.

Joseph P. Wilson

Joseph P. Wilson has been an Associate Attorney with Marasco & Nesselbush since 2004. Attorney Wilson has dedicated his legal career exclusively to representing Social Security disability claimants at all levels of review before the Social Security Administration, the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review, the Appeals Council, and the United States District Court.

Joe has appeared before more than 100 different Administrative Law Judges in 38 states while representing hundreds of clients in Rhode island and throughout the country. Attorney Garrian is a member of the Rhode Island Bar Association’s Social Security Disability Committee as well as of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives.

He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Framingham State College and from Boston University School of Law where he was named a G. Joseph Tauro Scholar. Attorney Wilson is admitted to practice in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

Mariam A. Lavoie

Mariam A. Lavoie has been an Associate Attorney with Marasco & Nesselbush since 2004. With over 20 years’ of legal experience, she has successfully represented hundreds of Social Security disability claimants at all levels of review before the Social Security Administration, the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review, the Appeals Council, and the United States District Court.

Attorney Lavoie is a member of the Rhode Island Bar Association’s Social Security Disability Committee as well as of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives. She also has extensive experience in Personal Injury law. Attorney Lavoie graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Rhode Island and Cum Laude from the Suffolk University School of Law. Attorney Lavoie is admitted to the practice of law in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island.

Mark H. Grimm

Mark H. Grimm joined the law firm of Marasco & Nesselbush in 2007, with over 25 years of experience as an attorney. Throughout his legal career, Attorney Grimm has focused on civil litigation, primarily in the areas of personal injury and medical malpractice. With over 25 years of trial experience, he has successfully litigated numerous medical malpractice, personal injury and other civil cases, obtaining multiple million dollar recoveries on behalf of his clients.

Attorney Grimm graduated with honors from Brown University and from Boston College School of Law. Attorney Grimm has also served as an adjunct professor in legal and medical malpractice at Roger Williams University School of Law. He is licensed and admitted to the practice of law in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, the United States District Court for the Districts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts as well as the United States Court of Appeals.

Jennifer L. Belanger, Esq.

Jennifer L. Belanger joined the law firm of Marasco & Nesselbush in 2008. Since joining Marasco & Nesselbush, she has dedicated herself exclusively to representing Social Security disability claimants. She has successfully represented hundreds of Social Security disability claimants at all levels of review before the Social Security Administration, the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review, the Appeals Council and the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island. Attorney Belanger is a member of the Rhode Island Bar Association’s Social Security Disability Committee as well as of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives.

She is admitted to the practice of law in Rhode Island and in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island. Attorney Belanger graduated magna cum laude from Elmira College and received her Juris Doctorate from Roger Williams University School of Law.