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| No. of offices | 8 |
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| No. of attorneys | 200 |
| Major practice areas | Commercial & Criminal Litigation Corporate |
| Key people | Patrick C. Dunican Jr., Chairman and Managing Director |
| Date founded | 1926 |
| Founder | Andrew Crummy |
| Company type | Professional Corporation |
| Website | https://www.gibbonslaw.com/ |
With 200 attorneys, Gibbons is a law firm in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Washington, DC, and Florida. 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
Gibbons has a long history, dating back to its founding in 1926 by Andrew Crummy. After working as an IRS agent he formed a law partnership which was originally called Crummy & Rossbach. The late John J. Gibbons, for whom the firm is currently named, originally joined the firm in 1950, and, 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 legal services to a variety of clients.
John Gibbons rejoined the firm in 1990, after concluding 20 years of service on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 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.
The firm opened its New York office in 1997, providing clients with 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 additional 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.
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 allowed the firm to serve clients from offices throughout the region.
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 and opened another regional office in Wilmington, Delaware, expanding its presence.
Today, Gibbons continues to adapt and grow as it looks to its second century. In 2015, Gibbons moved its Philadelphia and Wilmington offices to upgraded 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.
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 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.
See also
- List of Harvard Law School alumni
- List of largest United States-based law firms by profits per partner
- White shoe firm
- Corporated law firm
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
- 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
External links
- Homepage
- Chambers USA profile
- Profile from LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell
- Gibbons P.C. Organizational Profile at the National Law Review