Attorney Profile

Nataliana A. Guida

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Nataliana Guida

Areas of Practice

Health Care Liability

Contact Info

(973) 618-4168
NAGuida@mdwcg.com

Nataliana (Talia) devotes her practice to medical malpractice litigation, defending the interests of physicians, dentists, nurses, hospitals, and other health care providers and institutions. She is experienced in all aspects of litigation, and brings hands on trial experience, including examining expert witnesses and presenting complex medical issues to juries. Talia also represents health care providers in licensing and disciplinary board matters. In addition to her litigation work, Talia advises clients on effective risk management strategies.

A strong advocate for her clients, Talia works closely with them to shape a defense strategy that reflects the unique aspects of each case and the outcome they hope to achieve.

Talia began her legal career as a law clerk to the Hon. Rachelle L. Harz, J.S.C. in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Bergen County, where she was involved in handling the Multi-County Litigation (mass tort) docket. She graduated from Quinnipiac University with a degree in Criminal Justice and received her juris doctor from New York Law School.

unanimous verdict obtained in a medical malpractice matter in Bergen County, New Jersey

Health Care Liability

We received a unanimous defense verdict of behalf of our clients. The plaintiff was a seven-year-old girl who presented with a sacral aneurysmal bone cyst, an expansile, lytic lesion that destroyed sacral bone and was causing compression on her lower lumbar and sacral nerve roots. The plaintiff experienced the inability to control her bladder and bowel post-operatively, and had no sensation in her sex organs.

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Defense Verdict Secured in a New Jersey Medical Malpractice Case

Health Care Liability

We secured a defense verdict on behalf of an oral surgeon in a medical malpractice matter. The plaintiff alleged that our client deviated from accepted standards of care when extracting four wisdom teeth resulting in permanent injury to the inferior alveolar nerve. The jury returned a unanimous verdict for the defense.

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Significant Representative Matters

Received a unanimous defense verdict of behalf of a neurosurgeon and neurosurgical practice. The plaintiff presented with a sacral aneurysmal bone cyst that was causing compression on her lower lumbar and sacral nerve roots. Post-surgery, the plaintiff’s experts alleged that the lower sacral nerve roots were transected by the defendants during the surgery. The defendants (and their experts) contended that the nerves were not transected, but instead were further injured by the necessary manipulation involved in removing the tumor — a recognized and accepted potential complication of this type of surgery.

Published Works

"Vicarious Liability -- Do You Really Need an Affidavit of Merit?" New Jersey Law Journal, Medical Malpractice Supplement, May 6, 2021

Case Law Alert, regular contributor, April 2019-present

CLASSES/SEMINARS TAUGHT

Coming to a Case Near You: AI in Medicine, Marshall Dennehey Trends in Health Care and Health Law Seminar, May 9, 2024

Admissions
New Jersey
2017
U.S. District Court District of New Jersey
2017
Education
New York Law School (J.D., 2016)
Quinnipiac University (B.A., cum laude, 2013)
Honors & awards
New Jersey Super Lawyer Rising Star
2026

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Associations & memberships
Bergen County Bar Association
Justice Morris Pashman American Inns of Court, pupil, 2019-2022
New Jersey State Bar Association
Women Lawyers in Bergen, Publicity Co-chair, 2017
Year joined
2017