
Amanda Gresko has been with the firm Marmero Law, LLC, located in Woodbury for over 13 years, beginning as a temporary paralegal and now serving as the office manager and head paralegal. Gresko’s legal career, however, began well before that. In 2003, after graduating from Washington Township High School, Gresko obtained her first job as a legal secretary at a local South Jersey law firm specializing in bankruptcy and foreclosure. She was also attending college at the time, majoring in forensic science with the ambition of serving as a law enforcement officer and investigator. While Gresko loved the investigative skill sets and science behind the law enforcement industry, her ambitions ultimately transitioned into a passion to someday be the one presenting their case in the courtroom.
“Growing up, I always wanted to be a criminal investigator,” she says. “I wanted to be entangled in the science of investigating, collecting the data, surveying and studying patterns and connections. As I continued in the law firm setting, however, I learned that my true passion was to be the one who relies upon that evidence to present legal arguments and theories in order to seek justice and relief to those who needed it. I thrive to someday establish new precedents in the law by studying, distinguishing and developing legal concepts and strategies that offer clarity to the many gray areas that exist today.”
Gresko went on from her first legal position and expanded her horizons by learning and working under different areas of the law throughout various firms located in South Jersey, including those that specialized in personal injury, workers’ compensation, collections, public defender services, civil rights and general litigation.
“I didn’t want to stop learning,” she says. “I spent several years studying different areas of the law, learning the procedures, skill sets and foundations, studying different writing styles, argument structures and legal strategies. I wanted to sample every area I could to find where my best fit was.”
Once Gresko began as a temporary paralegal in 2011 with her present firm, she knew her search for the right fit had come to an end. Marmero Law specializes in many areas, including representing public entities in the areas of labor and employment, redevelopment and land use, planning and zoning, civil rights, discrimination, retaliation, as well as representing private businesses and individuals in a wide array of services. Some days include conducting workplace investigations and interviews with victims of harassment and retaliation, other days include developing training and education by auditing deficits within operational conditions of public entities, and the time in between is usually spent supporting attorneys in writing legal briefs on some of the most extensive and complicated legal disputes.
“Each day at the firm is different and poses a different challenge for me to accomplish,” Gresko says. “Day by day I learned and acquired new skills, knowledge, and expanded substantially in my legal writing and creativity. This particular firm was the one that gave me the chance to truly grow in the legal career. My past experience at the many different firms was still of value, as it allowed me to be adaptable to the many situations that are presented each day.”
While Gresko already has over 21 years of experience in the field, she continues to push the bar higher each day by taking on new and more complicated challenges, evolving her career even further.
“My mission is to support private and public entities alike in their day-to-day struggles and situations,” she says. “I advocate for promoting and developing strong and productive working environments, individual accountability, fiscal transparency, and most importantly, clarity of the wrongs in a world of what I see as gray and chaotic. From my personal experiences in the 13-plus years I have been at this firm, I’ve learned firsthand that there are corrupt people out there, some who have even worked alongside me during a period of time. I’ve also learned firsthand the victims who suffered as a result of those committing the wrongs. Like the many I presently help now, I was once the one seeking help in the past. My past, however, is what makes me what I am today. We at Marmero Law are dedicated to building a more honest, transparent and harmonious environment for as many entities, individuals and citizens as we can.”
Marmero Law
Woodbury
(856) 848-6440
MarmeroLaw.com
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Published and copyrighted in South Jersey Magazine, Volume 21, Issue 7 (October 2024)
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