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| | name = Gibbons P.C. | | name = Gibbons P.C. | ||
| | logo = ] | | logo = ] | ||
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| num_offices = 5 | ||
| | num_attorneys = |
| num_attorneys = 177 | ||
| | practice_areas = Commercial & Criminal Litigation< |
| practice_areas = Commercial & Criminal Litigation<br/>Corporate/M&A<br/>Financial Restructuring<br/>Private Equity<br/>Real Estate<br/>Tax & others | ||
| | key_people = Patrick C. Dunican Jr., Chairman and Managing Director<ref></ref> | | key_people = Patrick C. Dunican, Jr., Chairman and Managing Director<ref></ref> | ||
| | revenue = {{gain}} $102.35M (2016) | |||
| | profit_per_equity_partner = {{gain}} $790 000 (2016) | |||
| | date_founded = 1926 | | date_founded = 1926 | ||
| | founder = Andrew Crummy | | founder = Andrew Crummy | ||
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| '''Gibbons P.C.''' is a large U.S. ] with 177 ]s in offices across four ] including in ], ] and ]. ] has selected Gibbons P.C. as one of the best workplaces for consulting & professional services in the United States ranking 14th and being the only law firm on the list.<ref>http://reviews.greatplacetowork.com/gibbons-p-c</ref> In the Vault.com's review the firm ranks 3rd for "Best Law Firms for Integration of Laterals/Clerks", 10th and 11th for “Best Law Firms to Work For” in the categories working hours and pro bono work, 10th for 'Best Law Firms for Women' and 28th for 'Best Law Firms in the Mid-Atlantic'.<ref>http://www.vault.com/company-profiles/law/gibbons-pc/company-overview</ref> The 2018 edition of the Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business features ten Gibbons P.C. practice areas and 25 individual Gibbons attorneys. | |||
| With 200 attorneys, <strong>Gibbons P.C.</strong> is a leading law firm in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Washington, DC, and Florida. With headquarters in Newark, New Jersey and seven other thriving offices, Gibbons has a significant Mid-Atlantic and broader East Coast footprint and a presence that supports a strong national practice. | |||
| The firm is best known for its litigation department, which included former judge and retired firm standard-bearer John Gibbons. The department tackles litigation disputes in areas including commercial, environmental, health care law, and white collar crime.<ref>http://www.vault.com/company-profiles/law/gibbons-pc/company-overview</ref> Clients | |||
| Gibbons regularly expands and innovates legal and client services while also adding value, introducing more targeted practice areas geared to a continually evolving legal marketplace and to companies that require focused services to meet emergent business needs. | |||
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| A distinguishing feature of the Gibbons attorney ranks is its number of former in-house counsel, including general counsel and other high-level executives for legal departments in major international companies, who possess key corporate training, industry experience, and first-hand knowledge of clients’ business environments. Similarly, many attorneys at Gibbons have gained distinctly valuable insight through prior experience in courts throughout the United States. The firm has long emphasized recruiting judicial law clerks. As a result, close to half of Gibbons attorneys served for federal or state judges, including many sitting judges and justices of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and United States District Courts for numerous districts. | |||
| In addition to its highly regarded legal practice, Gibbons supports several signature initiatives—service platforms and campaigns that expand the firm’s vision and mission, leveraging firm-wide pride in the Gibbons name to reinforce the firm’s commitments to its employees and the communities in which it operates and to honor the causes most important to the firm’s standard-bearer, John J. Gibbons. These signature initiatives include: the Gibbons Women’s Initiative (GWI); the Gibbons Diversity Initiative (GDI); the Gibbons Experience (custom employee benefits and personnel policy platform); Gibbons Cares (community outreach and pro bono programs); and the John J. Gibbons Fellowship in Public Interest & Constitutional Law (renowned public interest pro bono program dedicated to litigating the most significant legal issues of our time). | |||
| ==History== | ==History== | ||
| The firm was founded in 1926 by Andrew Crummy, a ] veteran who attended ] and ]. After working as an ] agent he formed a law partnership which was originally called Crummy & Rossbach. ],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gibbonslaw.com/biographies/attorney_biography.php?attorney_id=78 |title=Gibbons' attorney bio |access-date=2008-10-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130815085727/http://www.gibbonslaw.com/biographies/attorney_biography.php?attorney_id=78 |archive-date=2013-08-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref> for whom the firm is currently named, originally joined the firm in 1950, and stayed until 1969 when he was appointed to the ]. Gibbons returned to the firm in 1990, at which point the firm was called Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione.<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705042148/http://www.gibbonslaw.com/gibbons_legacy/index.php |date=2008-07-05 }}</ref> | |||
| ⚫ | The firm opened its New York office in 1997 and grew to more than 40 lawyers through the acquisition of experienced New York attorneys. In 2002, the firm relocated its New York office to One Pennsylvania Plaza to accommodate its growth and future expansion. It is occupying the 37th floor of the ]. | ||
| John Gibbons rejoined the firm in 1990, after concluding 20 years of service on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, where he served as the Chief Judge and authored more than 800 published opinions. Soon afterwards, the firm changed its name to Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, in tribute to his contribution to the legal field and the firm. | |||
| Gibbons joined the Am Law 200 in 2007, a prestigious list of the nation’s leading law firms that is published annually by The American Lawyer. The Am Law 200 is based on gross revenues and other data, which is provided by law firms throughout the nation and then investigated by reporters at ]’s publications throughout the United States. In 2014, New Jersey Law Journal named Gibbons the “General Litigation Practice of the Year”, while ] selected Gibbons as a “Regional Powerhouse”. The Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Super Lawyers, and Best Lawyers continue to highlight the firm and scores of its practice areas and attorneys. In the same year ] ranked Gibbons 44th among the AmLaw 200 for pro bono work.<ref>https://www.gibbonslaw.com/about/gibbons-legacy/</ref> | |||
| Part of the reason for John Gibbons’s return to the firm was the creation of the John J. Gibbons Fellowship in Public Interest & Constitutional Law, which formalized the firm’s ongoing commitment to pro bono causes. Today, the Fellowship is guided by Lawrence Lustberg (the first Fellow in this program), who directs two full-time attorneys devoted solely to pro bono issues, undertaking public interest and constitutional law projects and litigation. The Gibbons Fellowship has been and remains involved in the most significant and controversial issues that confront the federal and state courts— from the death penalty to same-sex marriage, from the rights of detained enemy combatants at Guantánamo and elsewhere to equal funding for education, among many others. | |||
| In 2018, Gibbons has 200 attorneys in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware and is ranked among the nation’s top 200 by The American Lawyer and recognized nationally for its work as one of only 20 law firms on the ]’s inaugural “Midsize Hot List”. The firm has been certified as a great workplace by the independent analysts at the Great Place to Work organization.<ref>http://reviews.greatplacetowork.com/gibbons-p-c</ref> | |||
| ⚫ | The firm opened its New York office in 1997 |
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| Also that year, the firm opened its Trenton office and introduced its Government & Regulatory Affairs Department, with its lawyer-lobbying practice. | |||
| ⚫ | ==Recognition== | ||
| By the start of 2004, the firm had moved to a corporate management model and had passed the torch of leadership to the next generation. Patrick C. Dunican Jr. began as Managing Director of the firm at the age of 37, leading the firm’s 159 lawyers who were then based in three Gibbons offices. Then, in May of 2005, the firm opened its Philadelphia office. This expansion into Philadelphia brought the number of firm offices to four and enhanced the firm’s ability to serve clients from offices throughout the region. | |||
| According to a report by ] the law firm does 'smaller deals for big players and | |||
| big deals for smaller clients'. | |||
| The firm handles complex commercial litigation and major transactions for midmarket companies, which includes those with annual revenues between $100 million and $2.5 billion. The 177-attorney law firm also handles middle-market deals for major companies and is active in the private equity arena.<ref>https://www.gibbonslaw.com/files/Uploads/Documents/mid%20size%20hot%20list.pdf</ref> | |||
| ] has selected Gibbons P.C. as one of the 2018 Best Workplaces in the country on the Consulting & Professional Services list. Gibbons is ranked 14th and is the highest ranked law firm and the only New Jersey-based company in the 2018 list. Gibbons was also ranked as a Best Workplace for Diversity and Best Workplace in New York for 2017 and has been ranked as a Best Medium Workplace since 2016 by Great Place to Work and Fortune.<ref>https://www.gibbonslaw.com/gibbons-named-one-of-the-2018-best-workplaces-in-consulting--professional-services-04-27-2018/</ref> | |||
| The firm achieved several significant milestones in 2007. Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione shortened its name to Gibbons P.C. and launched a new logo to coincide with the firm’s move of its headquarters to One Gateway Center in Newark. The firm also changed the skyline of Newark with the addition of its logo atop its new headquarters building. | |||
| In 2016, Gibbons was ranked 185th in the ]'s list of the 200 largest American law firms and 132nd in ] per attorney on the 2016 survey.<ref>https://abovethelaw.com/2016/07/profits-per-partner-at-all-law-firms-that-have-not-raised-salaries-for-associates/?rf=1</ref> | |||
| Also in 2007, for the first time in its 81-year history, Gibbons joined the Am Law 200, a prestigious list of the nation’s leading law firms that is published annually by The American Lawyer. As evidence of the growth noted by Am Law, Gibbons opened yet another regional office in Wilmington, Delaware, expanding its regional presence. Gibbons a place on The National Law Journal’s inaugural “Midsize Hot List,” which recognized 20 law firms nationwide with fewer than 300 lawyers that position themselves in fresh, innovative ways. | |||
| In 2016, Gibbons has been recognized as one of 20 law firms on the National Law Journal’s inaugural "Midsize Hot List". ] has also highlighted the firm’s multidisciplinary litigation strength, and its contributions to several high-profile corporate transactions in the public and private sectors, in its “Regional Powerhouse” series. The firm has been ranked one of the top 50 firms nationwide for working women by Working Mother magazine and among the top 100 for diversity by MultiCultural Law magazine in 2013.<ref>{{cite news|title=Organizational Profile of Gibbons P.C.|url=http://www.natlawreview.com/organization/gibbons-pc|accessdate=10 May 2013|newspaper=The National Law Review}}</ref> | |||
| Today, Gibbons continues to adapt and grow and become ever more equipped to guide clients through challenges and opportunities as it looks to its second century. In 2015, Gibbons moved its Philadelphia and Wilmington offices to state-of-the-art spaces. In 2018, new offices were opened in Washington, DC and West Palm Beach, Florida and the firm opened its eighth office in 2019 in Red Bank, New Jersey. | |||
| In 2009, Gibbons earned placement as the highest ranked New Jersey-headquartered firm on The American Lawyer’s Associate Survey of midlevel associate satisfaction and technology at law firms nationwide. Gibbons ranked 16th nationally, and 6th among the Am Law Second Hundred firms, for associate satisfaction, and 2nd among all law firms nationwide for technology. | |||
| ==Legal Services== | |||
| The legal practice operates under a practice group structure, with all attorneys assigned primarily to one of the firm’s nine “umbrella” departments: Commercial & Criminal Litigation; Corporate; Employment & Labor; Environmental; Financial Restructuring & Creditors’ Rights; Government & Regulatory Affairs; Intellectual Property; Products Liability; and Real Property. These represent the broad range of the firm’s practice and areas of experience. Under the nine departmental umbrellas are numerous teams and sub-groups that focus more specifically on discrete areas of legal practice. These include, for example, Tax within the Corporate Department; Trademark within Intellectual Property; and Pharmaceutical and Laboratory Defense within Products Liability. | |||
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| ⚫ | ==Recognition== | ||
| Numerous organizations and publications have honored the firm for its work. In recent years, the New Jersey Law Journal has rewarded the firm’s multidisciplinary litigation strength four times in recent years, with top overall honors in its 2014 statewide litigation awards program and individual recognition for the firm’s class action (2017), products liability (2016), and commercial litigation (2013) practices. Law360, a leading national legal industry publication, has selected Gibbons for its “Regional Powerhouse” series, based on a number of high-profile corporate and real estate transactions in the public and private sectors, as well as major litigations throughout the region. The firm’s practice areas and lawyers are consistently highlighted in industry publications, such as Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Super Lawyers, and Best Lawyers®. | |||
| ==Notable lawyers and alumni== | |||
| * ], former judge on the ] | |||
| * ], former Chief Justice of the ].<ref></ref> | |||
| * ], former ] who was ousted by ] ], founded Gibbons' Philadelphia office.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gibbonslaw.com/biographies/attorney_biography.php?attorney_id=327 |title=Marston's firm bio |access-date=2008-07-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080128181644/http://www.gibbonslaw.com/biographies/attorney_biography.php?attorney_id=327 |archive-date=2008-01-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref></ref> | |||
| * ], one of the ], was a Gibbons Fellow before joining the ] at ].<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704191708/http://www.brennancenter.org/people/hafetz_jonathan |date=July 4, 2008 }}</ref> | |||
| * ], Judge of the ] | |||
| * ], Acting Justice on the New Jersey Supreme Court (Judge of the Appellate Division, Temporarily Assigned to the Supreme Court). | |||
| ==Practice areas== | |||
| The firm is well known for its ] practice, particularly in the area of ]. The John J. Gibbons Fellowship in Public Interest & ], founded by Judge Gibbons, represents and files ] ] on behalf of poor and underrepresented parties, often on a ] basis.<ref></ref> The firm also has practices in ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and many other areas.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gibbonslaw.com/practices/index.php# |title=Full list of practice areas |access-date=2008-07-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705042010/http://www.gibbonslaw.com/practices/index.php# |archive-date=2008-07-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | |||
| Gibbons is one of many large law firms ] to the detainees at the ]. | |||
| Gibbons has also been recognized as an exceptional workplace by various organizations, due, in large part, to positive feedback on employee satisfaction surveys. The firm has been certified as a great workplace by the independent analysts at the Great Place to Work® organization. Gibbons has appeared on the NJBIZ “Best Places to Work in New Jersey” list every year it has been published. In addition, the firm was the only New Jersey company selected to the 2008 “Best Places to Work in America” list by the Society for Human Resources Management and Great Place to Work Institute, and has been named one of the best places to work in New York City and Pennsylvania by such publications as Crain’s New York Business, Central Penn Business Journal, and Philadelphia Business Journal. | |||
| ==See also== | |||
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| ==References== | ==References== | ||
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| No. of offices | 5 |
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| No. of attorneys | 177 |
| Major practice areas | Commercial & Criminal Litigation Corporate/M&A Financial Restructuring Private Equity Real Estate Tax & others |
| Key people | Patrick C. Dunican, Jr., Chairman and Managing Director |
| Revenue |  $102.35M (2016) |
| Profit per equity partner | $790 000 (2016) |
| Date founded | 1926 |
| Founder | Andrew Crummy |
| Company type | Professional corporation |
| Website | gibbonslaw.com |
Gibbons P.C. is a large U.S. law firm with 177 lawyers in offices across four states including in New York, Philadelphia and Newark. Fortune (magazine) has selected Gibbons P.C. as one of the best workplaces for consulting & professional services in the United States ranking 14th and being the only law firm on the list. In the Vault.com's review the firm ranks 3rd for "Best Law Firms for Integration of Laterals/Clerks", 10th and 11th for “Best Law Firms to Work For” in the categories working hours and pro bono work, 10th for 'Best Law Firms for Women' and 28th for 'Best Law Firms in the Mid-Atlantic'. The 2018 edition of the Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business features ten Gibbons P.C. practice areas and 25 individual Gibbons attorneys.
The firm is best known for its litigation department, which included former judge and retired firm standard-bearer John Gibbons. The department tackles litigation disputes in areas including commercial, environmental, health care law, and white collar crime. Clients include CIGNA, General Electric, JP Morgan Chase Bank and Procter & Gamble.
History
The firm was founded in 1926 by Andrew Crummy, a World War I veteran who attended New York University and Harvard Law School. After working as an IRS agent he formed a law partnership which was originally called Crummy & Rossbach. John Joseph Gibbons, for whom the firm is currently named, originally joined the firm in 1950, and stayed until 1969 when he was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Gibbons returned to the firm in 1990, at which point the firm was called Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione.
The firm opened its New York office in 1997 and grew to more than 40 lawyers through the acquisition of experienced New York attorneys. In 2002, the firm relocated its New York office to One Pennsylvania Plaza to accommodate its growth and future expansion. It is occupying the 37th floor of the One Penn Plaza.
Gibbons joined the Am Law 200 in 2007, a prestigious list of the nation’s leading law firms that is published annually by The American Lawyer. The Am Law 200 is based on gross revenues and other data, which is provided by law firms throughout the nation and then investigated by reporters at ALM (company)’s publications throughout the United States. In 2014, New Jersey Law Journal named Gibbons the “General Litigation Practice of the Year”, while Law360 selected Gibbons as a “Regional Powerhouse”. The Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Super Lawyers, and Best Lawyers continue to highlight the firm and scores of its practice areas and attorneys. In the same year The American Lawyer ranked Gibbons 44th among the AmLaw 200 for pro bono work.
In 2018, Gibbons has 200 attorneys in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware and is ranked among the nation’s top 200 by The American Lawyer and recognized nationally for its work as one of only 20 law firms on the National Law Journal’s inaugural “Midsize Hot List”. The firm has been certified as a great workplace by the independent analysts at the Great Place to Work organization.
Recognition
According to a report by The National Law Journal the law firm does 'smaller deals for big players and big deals for smaller clients'. The firm handles complex commercial litigation and major transactions for midmarket companies, which includes those with annual revenues between $100 million and $2.5 billion. The 177-attorney law firm also handles middle-market deals for major companies and is active in the private equity arena.
Fortune (magazine) has selected Gibbons P.C. as one of the 2018 Best Workplaces in the country on the Consulting & Professional Services list. Gibbons is ranked 14th and is the highest ranked law firm and the only New Jersey-based company in the 2018 list. Gibbons was also ranked as a Best Workplace for Diversity and Best Workplace in New York for 2017 and has been ranked as a Best Medium Workplace since 2016 by Great Place to Work and Fortune.
In 2016, Gibbons was ranked 185th in the AmLaw 200's list of the 200 largest American law firms and 132nd in profit per attorney on the 2016 survey.
In 2016, Gibbons has been recognized as one of 20 law firms on the National Law Journal’s inaugural "Midsize Hot List". Law360 has also highlighted the firm’s multidisciplinary litigation strength, and its contributions to several high-profile corporate transactions in the public and private sectors, in its “Regional Powerhouse” series. The firm has been ranked one of the top 50 firms nationwide for working women by Working Mother magazine and among the top 100 for diversity by MultiCultural Law magazine in 2013.
In 2009, Gibbons earned placement as the highest ranked New Jersey-headquartered firm on The American Lawyer’s Associate Survey of midlevel associate satisfaction and technology at law firms nationwide. Gibbons ranked 16th nationally, and 6th among the Am Law Second Hundred firms, for associate satisfaction, and 2nd among all law firms nationwide for technology.
Notable lawyers and alumni
- John Joseph Gibbons, former judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- James R. Zazzali, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
- David W. Marston, former United States Attorney who was ousted by President Jimmy Carter, founded Gibbons' Philadelphia office.
- Jonathan Hafetz, one of the Guantanamo Bay attorneys, was a Gibbons Fellow before joining the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.
- Kevin McNulty, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
- Edwin H. Stern, Acting Justice on the New Jersey Supreme Court (Judge of the Appellate Division, Temporarily Assigned to the Supreme Court).
Practice areas
The firm is well known for its litigation practice, particularly in the area of civil rights. The John J. Gibbons Fellowship in Public Interest & Constitutional Law, founded by Judge Gibbons, represents and files amicus curiae briefs on behalf of poor and underrepresented parties, often on a pro bono publico basis. The firm also has practices in corporate law, securities, international trade, tax law, intellectual property, real estate, white-collar criminal defense, and many other areas.
Gibbons is one of many large law firms providing counsel to the detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
See also
References
- Dunican firm bio
- http://reviews.greatplacetowork.com/gibbons-p-c
- http://www.vault.com/company-profiles/law/gibbons-pc/company-overview
- http://www.vault.com/company-profiles/law/gibbons-pc/company-overview
- https://www.gibbonslaw.com/files/Uploads/Documents/mid%20size%20hot%20list.pdf
- "Gibbons' attorney bio". Archived from the original on 2013-08-15. Retrieved 2008-10-24.
- Firm history Archived 2008-07-05 at the Wayback Machine
- https://www.gibbonslaw.com/about/gibbons-legacy/
- http://reviews.greatplacetowork.com/gibbons-p-c
- https://www.gibbonslaw.com/files/Uploads/Documents/mid%20size%20hot%20list.pdf
- https://www.gibbonslaw.com/gibbons-named-one-of-the-2018-best-workplaces-in-consulting--professional-services-04-27-2018/
- https://abovethelaw.com/2016/07/profits-per-partner-at-all-law-firms-that-have-not-raised-salaries-for-associates/?rf=1
- "Organizational Profile of Gibbons P.C." The National Law Review. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
- Zazzali's firm bio
- "Marston's firm bio". Archived from the original on 2008-01-28. Retrieved 2008-07-30.
- Article about Marston's career from Law.com
- Hafetz's biography from Brennan Center Archived July 4, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- Gibbons Fellowship page
- "Full list of practice areas". Archived from the original on 2008-07-05. Retrieved 2008-07-30.
External links
- Homepage
- Chambers USA profile
- Profile from LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell
- Gibbons P.C. Organizational Profile at the National Law Review