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| No. of offices | 8 |
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| No. of attorneys | 200 |
| Major practice areas | Commercial & Criminal Litigation Corporate Employment & Labor Law Environmental Financial Restructuring & Creditors’ Rights Government & Regulatory Affairs Intellectual Property Products Liability Real Property The John J. Gibbons Fellowship in Public Interest & Constitutional Law |
| Key people | Patrick C. Dunican Jr., Chairman and Managing Director |
| Date founded | 1926 |
| Founder | Andrew Crummy |
| Company type | Professional corporation |
| Website | gibbonslaw.com |
With 200 attorneys, Gibbons P.C. 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.
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.
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
Gibbons has a long and rich history, dating back to its founding in 1926 by Andrew Crummy. After working as an IRS agent, he formed a law partnership that was originally called Crummy & Rossbach. The late John J. Gibbons, for whom the firm is currently named, originally joined the firm in 1950. After several years with the firm, he was named a partner, and the firm’s name changed to Crummy, Consodine & Gibbons. In the years that followed, John Gibbons left the firm to become a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the firm became known as Crummy, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione. Andrew Crummy passed away in 1981, leaving a strong legacy in a firm that continued to grow and provide quality legal services to a variety of clients.
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.
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.
The firm opened its New York office in 1997, providing clients with a full range of legal services in a second location in the region. In the following years, the office 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. Also that year, the firm opened its Trenton office and introduced its Government & Regulatory Affairs Department, with its lawyer-lobbying practice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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®.
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.
References
External links
- Homepage
- Chambers USA profile
- Profile from LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell
- Gibbons P.C. Organizational Profile at the National Law Review