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Gibbons P.C.

Headquarters	Newark, New Jersey
No. of offices	5
No. of attorneys	177
Major practice areas	General practice
Key people	Patrick C. Dunican, Jr., Chairman and Managing Director
Revenue	$102.35M (2016)
Date founded	1926
Founder	Andrew Crummy
Company type	Professional corporation
Website	gibbonslaw.com

Gibbons P.C. is a large U.S. law firm based in Newark, New Jersey. The firm has 177 lawyers in five offices across four states. In the Vault.com's review the firm ranks 3rd for 'Best Law Firms for Integration of Laterals/Clerks', 10th for 'Best Law Firms for Women' and 28th for 'Best Law Firms in the Mid-Atlantic'. 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.

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.

Recognition

According to a report by The National Law Journal Gibbons 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.

Gibbons has been recognized as one of 20 law firms on the National Law Journal’s inaugural "Midsize Hot List". The New Jersey Law Journal has awarded Gibbons a “Litigation Practice of the Year” designation four times in recent years, in the class actions, products liability, and commercial litigation categories and with the overall “General Litigation Practice of the Year” honor. 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.

Gibbons is one of many large law firms providing counsel to the detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

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.

Year	Salary
1st year associate	$135,000
2nd year associate	$150,000
3rd year associate	merit-based
4th year associate	merit-based
5th year associate	merit-based
6th year associate	merit-based
7th year associate	merit-based
8th year associate	merit-based

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