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She has been an attorney in practice for over 24 years. Karimu Hill-Harvey was the first ever African-American woman to be listed in the "Top 20 Verdicts and Settlements" in the New Jersey Law Journal for obtaining a $3.25 million settlement in Grant V. Laresca, et al. The case led to the creation of a new law, as did her work on Simmons-Dixon v.
Isaac G. McNatt: [50] First African American male judge in Teaneck, Bergen County, New Jersey (1979) Roger Lai: [51] First Asian American male to serve as the President of the Burlington County Bar Association, New Jersey (2014) Joseph H. Rodriguez (1958): [29] [30] First Hispanic American male lawyer in Camden, New Jersey [Camden County, New ...
First Hispanic American woman (U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey; U.S. Magistrate Judge for the District of New Jersey): Esther Salas (1981) in 2006 [20] [21] First South Asian American female and first Muslim female (U.S. Magistrate Judge for the District of New Jersey): Rukhsanah L. Singh in 2022 [30]
The New Jersey Law Journal (NJLJ) has named the firm Litigation Department of the Year for Intellectual Property in 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2015. U.S. News-Best Law Firms ranked the firm a Tier One in New Jersey for Intellectual Property-Litigation, Litigation-Patent, Patent Law, and Trademark Law in 2023, continuing a decade ...
The New Jersey Law Journal has awarded Gibbons a "Litigation Practice of the Year" designation five times in recent years, in the employment, class actions, products liability, and commercial litigation categories and with the overall "General Litigation Practice of the Year" honor. [6]
The firm was founded in 1961 [3] and was based in Newark, New Jersey. [3] [8] One of the firm's founders was Newark-born Alan V. Lowenstein who was also a leader of Newark's charter reform movement. [9] In the early 1980s, it had 67 lawyers and a staff of 150, but moved to Roseland, New Jersey, after a four-year decision-making process. [3]
Fabiana Pierre-Louis (born September 9, 1980) [1] is an American attorney and jurist serving as a justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court. She is the first Black woman to serve on the court. Pierre-Louis had previously worked as attorney-in-charge of the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey 's Trenton and Camden branches, and ...
Latino Action Network v. New Jersey is a lawsuit filed on May 17, 2018, on the anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education which claims that the State of New Jersey provides separate and unequal schools to minority children in violation of their constitutional rights and that there is segregation in New Jersey public schools.